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