It’s rare to have flowers blooming the last week of November in southeast Michigan.
Cool weather, cloudy skies, and short days make November a month to finish cleaning up the garden in preparation for winter.
Not admiring pretty flowers in our gardens.
Luckily, I’ve had several flowers in bloom this month, including today’s photo of the week: the blue-stemmed goldenrod (native Michigan plant) which I planted as a plug the first week of September this year.
Blue-stemmed goldenrod (Solidago caesia) typically grows in a woodland setting; mine is growing in the shade on the north side of my home.
Mature plants are two-three feet tall, with arching stems covered with hundreds of small yellow flowers which bloom from August through October.
Since this plant (along with two other nearby blue-stemmed goldenrod ) are in their first year, they’re only about a foot tall.
And only one of the plants has a few stems of flowers.
Never expected it would bloom this year!
Especially not in mid- to late-November.
Here’s another one of my flowers in bloom today, my hardy chrysanthemum in our front courtyard.
