I spent hours this weekend potting on the perennial seedlings that I’m growing for the parking strip garden.

I’ve transplanted seven trays so far (72 plants each) of perennials, including three kinds of yarrows, lychnis, arabis, dianthus, echinacea and more.  There are a lot more to move along, so I’ll be working on it throughout the coming week.

This Verbascum surprised me by opening flowers in the orchard bed.  It has many other spikes coming on below the original flowers, as well.

The low late-spring light shining through the first streptocarpus to bloom–this lovely white flowered, purple edged cultivar.

There is a Portugal laurel growing just down the street.  I don’t have room for this shrub/tree, but I enjoy it in other people’s yards.

The flowers have a light, sweet fragrance.  They show strongly against the dark glossy foliage.

This gorgeous cistus is planted at a housing development very close by.  These shrubs are blooming spectacularly this year.

Another view showing all the flowers open at once.

At my new bus stop, an apartment building added some very nice landscaping.  There are large Acanthus mollis and variegated Hebes looking really sharp along a faux creek bed.

Hebe habit.  I think this is Hebe variegata.

Close-up view.