The garden is always changing. As plants mature and others come into bloom, I’m always seeing combinations of plants and interesting relationships between them. Here are a couple plant combinations in the yard that I’m particularly happy with. This is… Read More »april plant combinations
Shown here with its last flowers of a long season that started last fall is Protea x Pink Ice, a hybrid between the species P. compacta and P. susannae. Although one of the growing guides says this stops at 5-7… Read More »protea pink ice
I wrote a bit on finding dichelostemma in the fake forest of UCSD’s eucalyptus groves. Here are a couple more shots of some of what’s blooming there, courtesy the winter rains: Where are we? California? Australia? The wildflowers say one… Read More »some spring wildflowers in the fake forest
I was looking at a bed in the front yard the other day and noticed everything blooming in it right now is in various combinations of red, orange and yellow: Freesia hybrid Epidendrum ibaguense hybrid Gaillardia pulchella Linaria reticulata ‘Flamenco’… Read More »everything's red and orange and yellow