Here are some miscellaneous recent pictures of my garden.
View of the front garden -- only 2 years ago this was a large expanse of grass that sloped up to the street |
One corner of the front garden recycled concrete wall |
Thrift store glass plate flower with cloisonne butterfly |
Achillea 'Moonshine' |
Hebe 'Quicksilver' with Sedum 'Angelina' |
Cardoons |
Euphorbia self-sown into gravel |
Allium |
Iochroma 'Ashcott Red' |
Clematis flowers winding through purple smoke bush foliage |
Arbutus unedo compacta leaves in low late afternoon sun |
Tetrapanax leaf |
Hardy Geranium |
Patch of multi-colored self-sown Nigella damascena |
Pink California poppy |
Blue Flax |
Peonies laying down on the job |
Erysimum, Pacific Coast Iris, California poppies, and way in back, out of focus, Persian cornflower |
Clematis |
Kniphofia blooming already (I think of them as hot summer flowers) |
Ditto lilies |