The weather here in central Florida was mild at the beginning of the month. Then when that big snow storm blew over the southeast, it brought a cold front down to us. Here in my area we had our lowest temperature so far this winter. Our low Tuesday night was 39 degrees F. Above us the counties had freezing temperatures. Below us it was a little warmer. Unfortunately the south west side of Florida had multiple tornadoes and some areas had extensive damage. No damage in my area just a wild cold rain with high wind gusts. After 2 days of cooler temperatures, our highs and lows went back up. I still have flowers growing and I’m happy.
Florida native Trumpet Honeysuckle is still doing well.
The vinca or periwinkle is still covered in flowers.
Above and below are single red hibiscus, but the red double hibiscus is really the star of January.
Double hibiscus have multiple layers of petals for a ruffled look.
I hope you enjoyed a few flowers today. Thanks for the visit!
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…thanks for brightening my cold morning.
Gorgeous to see your colorful flowers! It’s winter here and snow everywhere.
If I want flowers in January, it’s Kroger for me! These are a wonderful breath of fresh air!
glad you wnjoyed them
It’s great to see blooming flowers in January! It will be at least 4 months before any flowers will be blooming here!!
Bellas flores alegran el día. Te deseo una genial semana. Te mando un beso
It’s been beautiful here too but we have a killer frost this morning! The golf course is frosty! Enjoy your day!
Glad your area made out okay with storms and the weather! Thanks for sharing your beautiful flowers with us.
Oh wow! It sounds like you have been having some scary weather with you. What beautiful flowers. I have nothing growing in my garden which I really need to sort out x
thanks for the visit – Have a great week
Carol – glad your gardens were not damaged by the wild weather. You are right – that double hibiscus steals the spotlight! Thanks for linking to Mosaic Monday!
I love that you are warm again and your flowers are bright and showy. Everything is dead here!!
we went down to 39 last night but should warm in a few days
Lovely colourful photos again so pretty you can’t get better names than Hibiscus and Periwinkle heheh!
Have a periwinkletastic week ?
thanks Steve!
Hi Carol. I’m glad you didn’t loose your flowers. I know you would have been devastated. We got snow and I was happy to see it. But I realize Florida isn’t used to it. Pinned and tweeted.
I remember a few years ago north Florida like Tallahassee had a slight snow. Residents were slipping and sliding in their cars. Most had never seen snow before.
Beautiful flowers! Good thing about Honeysuckle, Periwinkle and Hibiscus is that they require almost no maintenance and keep giving beautiful flowers.
that is exactly why I love them!
It’s always a joy to see your beautiful flowers, Carol.
Happy Tuesday!
Lovely flowers! Stay warm.
Pleased that your beautiful flowers survived the storm.
Pretty winter flowers! I’m in coastal Georgia, and we have a few azalea blooms peeking out in January.
I love azaleas – ours will come shortly
You have beautiful flowers growing, Carol! I like the red flowered honeysuckle vine, I heard about the tornadoes and I’m glad they did not affect your area.
I’m glad the cold didn’t damage those beautiful flowers!
Didn’t visit Florida again this January, thanks to the continuing pandemic, so it was nice seeing your flowers. We only have snow here, and over the weekend it got down to -7F. Alana ramblinwitham
we went down into the 30’s for 2 nights but luckily I didn’t have frost.
Beautiful flowers. So nice to see.
Thank you.
Lovely hibiscus ! Thanks for sharing with Garden affair.