From my recent posts, lean every bit they stimulate got been, you lot powerfulness stimulate got gotten the impression that I haven’t been dwelling menage much. Actually, I stimulate got been, but move has been unexpectedly busy, exacerbated yesteryear the forced absence of my trouble concern partner who has had to stimulate got PTO to live alongside an ailing rear overseas.
Gardening has been sporadic, but I stimulate got been taking photos. I’ve fifty-fifty started on a pair of projects inwards the backyard, relegated to also-ran condition inwards recent years. All that is close to change, every bit you lot volition encounter inwards a assort shipping subsequently this week.
For now, let’s stimulate got a facial expression at the forepart yard, specifically what used to live the forepart lawn. This is what you lot encounter every bit you lot approach from the driveway (literally steps behind the location from which I took this photo). I don’t mean value I’ll e'er larn tired of this view. It’s everything I had hoped for.
A few close-ups that caught my eye:
Red buckwheat (Eriogonum grande var. rubescens) may live from the Channel Islands off the Southern California coast, but it looks similar it’ll create only fine inwards our forepart yard. What you lot encounter are the dried inflorescences. The basal rosettes (several now) are all the same light-green as well as actively growing.
Cactus are best when backlit
Changes are afoot inwards the forepart yard every bit well. The Mexican sage (Salvia mexicana ‘Limelight’) you lot encounter on the correct inwards the photograph below is only every bit good big as well as every bit good sprawling. I’ve been wanting to stimulate got it out for weeks now, but the flowers are all the same attracting hummingbirds. So I’ll hold off a few to a greater extent than weeks…
However, I did line the trigger on the yellow-blooming Salvia madrensis, another sage from due south of the edge (on the left inwards the photograph above). Being borderline hardy, it would larn knocked backed every winter, leaving a gaping hole for 6 months. In its identify is a variegated Leucadendron ‘Jester’ now. It’s small, as well as non precisely a speed demon, but it volition live perfect hither over the long run.
Another big alter inwards the forepart yard is this Protea cynaroides ‘Mini King’:
I planted it adjacent to my honey Agave bovicornuta, as well as inwards forepart of an Encephalartos lehmannii, inwards a location previously occupied yesteryear a potted Republic of Madagascar ocotillo (Alluaudia procera):
At 2-3 yesteryear 2-3 feet, Protea cynaroides ‘Mini King’ is a truthful dwarf, but alongside full-sized flowers. Mine has ii flowers inwards their early on stages. Click here to encounter fully developed flowers.
Protea cynaroides ‘Mini King’, developing flower
Another novel resident of this corner of the forepart yard is Echium amoenum ‘Red Feathers’. This lately introduced echium from the Caucasus Mountains features attractive red blossom spikes. I can’t hold off for it to bloom adjacent year.
This is where the potted Republic of Madagascar ocotillo (Alluaudia procera) is now:
I’ve also began to hand the denizens of my front-yard pot ghetto permanent homes. This is 1 of them, Agave parrasana ‘Fireball’. It’s been on the brink of move several times, but I mean value I’ve nursed it dorsum plenty for it to move inwards the ground. Larger specimens are very attractive.
This is what’s all the same left inwards the pot ghetto. I stimulate got homes for 90% of them. All I take away forthwith is to a greater extent than or less lineament gardening time.
Arctostaphylos ‘Ruth Bancroft’, Grevillea ‘Flora Mason’, Banksia grandis ‘Compact Coastal Form’, Phylica pubescens, Arctostaphylos ‘Pacific Mist’, Agave ‘Blue Glow’, ii tree aloe seedlings I’m treating every bit if they are Aloidendron ‘Hercules’
Phylica pubescens, Banksia grandis ‘Compact Coastal Form’
Banksia grandis ‘Compact Coastal Form’, to become inwards the backyard
Phylica pubescens, to supplant the Salvia mexicana ‘Limelight’
Arctostaphylos ‘Ruth Bancroft’
Grevillea ‘Flora Mason’, 1 of 8 flowers forming
Next post: photograph from exterior the forepart yard fence
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