Winter is not here yet, although it has been in doubt yesterday as the temperature was not exceed 4 ° and it rained all day. Time to clean the garden, raking leaves and perennial fold (I will return soon), then follow the planting biennials and bulbs that I'm still pretty late in November when the soil is moist.
So yesterday, the time was badly chosen to engage in contemplation, however, between showers I could do a little inventory and see the garden which still has some ornamental value in this period where everything is so stripped and where are empty.
Passed mid-November, the stars are of course the leaves, deciduous or persistent, and I do not pay attention during the summer because my preference is to plants flowering. However, seeing the presence of those beautiful leaves, I got the idea to create a solid consisting only of persistent plant, to associate for example, autumn olive, photinia, charcoal, sage, santolina and conifers.
Trees and Shrubs Deciduous all lost their leaves, except that seem birch covered with gold, like chimonanthe, they will remain beautiful until the end of the month and maybe even a little Beyond:
I find any foliage of rhododendrons, but I really like the foliage of glossy camellia that is already many buttons, or that of daphne odora odoratissimum viburnum that was probably too young, no flowers this summer:
Camelia 11/2010 
Daphne Odora, 11/2010 
Viburnum odoratissimum, 11/2010 This makes the gardener forget that November is the month that offers the least amount of blooms. Winter jasmine, Bodnant viburnum or Mahonia Charity are not yet fulfilled.
as to indicate that winter waits, some rosebuds trying to hatch, especially on roses Ulrich Brunner:
Quelques fleurs de rudbeckia nitida font de la résistance, ce qui en dit long sur le caractère florifère de cette vivace mais ne désirant plus voir ces pauvres fleurs portées par des tiges entièrement grillées, je les ai sacrifiées:
One of my Darley heath (Erica Darleyensis), with pink flowers bloom is well while the others, white or red 's flourish only in a month and a half
Decidedly November is not as sad as this, you just know how to look.
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