Clematis seedling that appeared some years ago Too many flowers to fit one post. Many of the roses will be in a follow-up post in a few days.
'Silver Anook' Lavender in flower with Lavender 'Meerlo' as background:
Hippeastrum x 'Apple Blossom':
Hunnemannia poppies in the path:
Hellebores continue to flower:
Itoh Peony 'Misaka':
Pelargonum peltatums:
Sweet Pea 'Zinfandel':
Sweet Pea 'Cupani' (guess)
Surprise: found a plant producing marbled flowers in the wall of vines: Alstroemeria 'Rock & Roll' continues:
I went looking for chartreuse pots for the Clivias below the Acer, to coordinate with the Hakone grass and brighten the area after the Alstroemerias finish flowering. No luck.
Roses 'Belindas Dream' and 'Golden Celebration' with Salvias, Gerbera daisies, and Aechmea blanchtiana 'Orangeade':
Sweetpeas and Marigolds:
To lure visitors through the gate: Hesperaloe parviflora:
Hippeastrum x 'Dancing Queen':
Marigolds, Felicia amylloides, Cuphea 'Vermillionaire', Leucadendron 'Blush', Gerbera daisies, Rose 'Souvenir de la Malmaison':
'Zinfandel' Sweet Pea color looks nice with peachy 'Tamora' rose as background:
Roses 'Iceberg' and 'Brass Band' with Gerberas, Graptoveria 'Fred Ives' and Pimelea 'Magenta Mist':
The blue-purple of Salvia 'Mystic Spires Blue' looks fine with rose 'Golden Celebration':
The stems of 'Mystic Spires Blue' Salvia are strong enough this year to support Carpenter bees:Surprise, a Dendrobium cutting has a flower!
Afternoon light in the garden is nice...
Overcast morning still good with more flowers opening: Clematis...'Etoile Violette'?
Lobelia erinus:
Leucospermum 'Blanche Ito' in the background. Grevillea 'Ned Kelly' foreground:
Surprise! First flower stem emerging on Kniphofia caulescens:
Abutilon 'Davids Red'. Need to get better at growing this:
Recently planted 'Bloomstruck' Hydrangeas:
Cane Begonia I've had forever:
Artemesia 'Davids Choice':
Agave gypsophila, now considered to be a selection of the newly described species, Agave pablocarrilloi. The background is a neighbor's pool. The Agave is barely 18" wide and the flower stalk must be 10' tall. Salvia leucantha:
Pulling a neighbor's weeds through the fence, I took a picture of their Romneya coulteri:
Grevillea 'Scarlet Spite':
Calylophus 'Southern Belle':
Echinopsis--possibly 'Flying Saucer':
Clematis 'Angelique':
Clematis 'Wisley' seems to be looking around the garden, gawking at all the flowers:
I've had trouble getting anything done in the garden the past several days. Like 'Wisley', too busy gawking!
Hippeastrum x 'Apple Blossom':
Hellebores continue to flower:
Itoh Peony 'Misaka':
Pelargonum peltatums:
Sweet Pea 'Zinfandel':
Sweet Pea 'Cupani' (guess)
Surprise: found a plant producing marbled flowers in the wall of vines:
Surprise, a Dendrobium cutting has a flower!
Afternoon light in the garden is nice...
Overcast morning still good with more flowers opening:
All I can say is yummy. Plus you have the most gorgeous hardscaping; those pillars and the work around the door.
ReplyDeleteI like the pillars too. The walls were a good idea in multiple ways, including according to the fire department, fire safety.
DeleteWow... that's a lot in bloom in your piece of Eden. I so admire clematis in other people's gardens, as they do not like mine.
ReplyDeleteThat's the fun of other people's gardens--we can enjoy the vast variety of our planet's flora without having to grow it all.
DeleteLoveliness! You will certainly lure visitors through the gate. My Hellebores are just about done and my Clematis haven't bloomed yet, so I'm in between you on those two items. Happy Bloom Day!
ReplyDeleteHappy Blooms, Beth!
DeleteEvery photo is a revelation, HB. Your garden is at its finest (so far). I'm overwhelmingly envious of your clump of Hippeastrum. I'm not even going to try to describe my reaction to the Itoh peony. Your sweet peas are far ahead of mine (although I've finally had a few blooms). The Echinopsis is gorgeous. My garden could use a little more of that warmth the weather forecasters keep talking about - our marine layer didn't lift until 1 pm yesterday and it still hasn't cleared yet today and it's just shy of 3pm.
ReplyDeleteThank you Kris, looking at them though they don't seem to do the garden justice. The rain did real magic.
DeleteI didn't grow Sweet Peas this year and I was kind of regretting it-now I'm really regretting it after seeing yours ! You do indeed have a lot to gawk at and I'm looking forward to the rose report too. I'm also glad to see I'm not the only one discretely pulling neighbors weeds.
ReplyDeleteThe sweet peas have never been so good here. They are 10' tall in spots. It was the rain.
DeleteHave to pull the neighbor's weeds because the seeds all blow into my garden if I don't.
Gawking, yes. The inevitable state of a gardener in May!
ReplyDeleteThe two photos taken with different light conditions, afternoon vs. morning, are gorgeous, a favorite composition of mine. The morning light gets the edge only because it shows the detail in the water feature.
The Graptoveria 'Fred Ives' clump is impressive, in both size and colors: so unique.
Salvia leucantha is a beauty, the blooms appear so velvety in the photo...
Do you collect seeds from the sweet pea? The marbling one would tempt me, such cool surprise indeed.
Chavli
Lighting makes all the difference. Either thin overcast or a few minutes after sunrise or an hour before sunset when the sun is angled seem best. Photography is its own complex craft as is gardening.
DeleteThe S. leucantha flowers really are very velvety--greatly appealing.
I was thinking to go out there and tag some of those marbled flowers to see if their seeds do the same next year--thanks for reminding me to do that!
Your landscape is so beautiful and the individual blooms just make my heart open. 'Zinfandel' Sweet Pea is a special one--great color. I am gawking too!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Susie. I didn't like 'Zinfandel's color right at first--but it looks wonderful with peachy and lavender colors, and white--perhaps the light becoming more intense here as we edge towards the summer solstice did it.
DeleteI would be too busy gawking too. Many of those shots look they could have come from a glossy magazine. Your garden is looking absolutely magnificent. If I ever make it down to your part of California I would wander through your front gates.
ReplyDeleteYou would be welcome! :)
DeleteOk, I'm convinced! You can stop taunting me. The next time I see Alstroemeria 'Rock & Roll', I'm buying it! I am super impressed with the design of the one area with the stepped walls, agaves, the large pot, and the roses. Hoping you take plenty of time to just soak it all in.
ReplyDeleteI have actually spent a little time sitting looking at that area. Lots of birds to watch because of the many nectar sources. It's been nice.
DeleteYour garden looks better than ever. What a show!
ReplyDeleteAlstroemeria 'Rock & Roll' still does it for me. And the Echinopsis does look like 'Flying Saucer'.
Thanks--the rain worked miracles.
Delete'Rock & Roll' is so wildly over-the-top when it is in bloom. I saw some video or read some story about Christopher Lloyd (renowned English gardener)--about how it was a good idea to have a really wild even gaudy plant in the garden so one never got trapped into taking gardening over-seriously...and 'Rock & Roll' seems to fit the bill.
I loved your post about 'Flying Saucer' with a link to the obit of it's creator. What a wonderful life well lived.
What sort of growing conditions do you give your FS? I need to get my poor plant out of the pot and into the soil before I kill it with bad care.
I like the contrast of the yellow poppies with the graceful purple tree behind.
ReplyDeleteThose poppies pick their own locations--and they picked a good place there!
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