Urban Landscape, Native Landscape: November Garden Pictures

Friday, December 9, 2011

November Garden Pictures

Cascadia Garden November 2011

Hakonechloa macra 'Albo Striata' November 2011

Magnolia ashei November 2011

Felis cattus 'Mimi' November 2011

Rosa nutkana November 2011

November 2011 had the most beautiful fall color of any November I can remember. The month started out mostly dry & windless. Leaves remained on the trees & shrubs later than normal, developing rich shades of red, yellow & orange. November 2011 was cooler & drier than normal. The average monthly maximum temperature was 49.3F/9.6C. The normal average monthly temperature is 50.9F/10.5C. The highest temperature was 62F/16.6C, the lowest 27F/-2.7C. We had 5.16 inches of rain, 1.41 less than normal. It rained lightly on 18 days, moderately on 8 days & heavily on 3. There were 15 cloudy days, 14 partly cloudy days & 1 sunny day.

2 comments:

Dewi said...: Cute and curious looking kitty! Yes, I also like this time of year where some leaves are showing off their beauty.; December 9, 2011 at 12:13 PM
Alistair said...: Great November shots Jordan. I have enjoyed my visits to your site in 2011. Have a great Christmas.; December 12, 2011 at 5:15 AM

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This blog began in 2008 as Metropolitan Gardens to provide information on gardening in Seattle & places like it. Click on Gardening in Cascadia. The blog expanded to include Parks P-Patches Public Gardens in the US, Canada & Europe. Then Nature was added. (The difference between nature & gardens is intent. Nature happens. Gardens are planned.) Many recent posts are not about Seattle, or even Cascadia. They are Urban Landscape: streetscape & architecture. Cascadia is the region including the Cascade Mountains of Washington & Oregon. If you want to contact the blogger, leave a message in comments. Comments are moderated & private messages will not be posted.

Our Land & Climate

The city of Seattle rests between 2 bodies of water: Puget Sound & Lake Washington. Puget Sound is a substantial part of the Salish Sea & a very small part of the Pacific Ocean. The Salish Sea is set apart from the Pacific by the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington & Vancouver Island in the province of British Columbia. The dense, wet clouds of the Pacific Ocean travel as far as the Cascade Mountains, near the Salish Sea & not very far from the ocean. East of the Cascades lies the desert of the Columbia Basin. The moist, temperate climate of Seattle extends south to northern California & north to southeastern Alaska. The Pacific Northwest Coast from San Francisco Bay to Cook Inlet shares a flora dominated by evergreen coniferous forest. The central portion, west of the Cascade Mountains, is called Cascadia. The climate is cool & wet from fall to spring, warm & dry in summer. The Olympic Mountains block Seattle from much of the Pacific rainfall. Seattle is drier than the Atlantic coast of North America & northern Europe, cooler in summer & warmer in winter. It lies near the latitude of Paris & Quebec City.