Garden Update

With the travel to London and Lodi in May/June, I haven’t spent enough time in the garden and indeed no time writing about it. I’ll drop a bunch of photos here, though, as there is a lot going on that is lovely and new in the yard this year.

Allium blooming in the memory garden.
Kniphofia blooming in the memory garden.
The Shasta daisies are huge this year and full of buds.
Peach-leaved bellflowers have such a perfect blue-purple color.
Giant orchid cactus flower. The plant just had one flower so it was particularly large.
More allium flowers.
One of the David Austin roses in the orchard garden.
Cameras never get the color of this rose quite right. It is electric scarlet.
Wild Treasure blackberries have a lot of berries coming on!
Single white peony among the hardy geraniums.
There were lots of native bees in the Santa Barbara daisy flowers on this warm day.
I never got to prune this rambler back in the spring and now it is covered in super-fragrant flowers.
I plan to cut it back when the flowers are mostly done.
Native Sidalcea in the native plant garden–grown from seed and blooming in the second year.
Late tulip flowers in the memory garden.
Different alliums in the memory garden.
Close-up.
Heuchera “Firefly” flowers among the oriental poppies.
The Santa Barbara daisies (Erigeron karvinskianus) in the memory garden with columbines blooming behind.
The seed-grown oriental poppies are doing well in the memory garden and had many more flowers this year.
Blackberry flowers in the orchard garden.
Native honeysuckle at the edge of the woods at Ingraham High School.
Geranium sanguineum in the memory garden.
Kniphofia/Euphorbia.
Allium.
Geranium patens.
Eryngium.
Sedum and Madrona seedling.
Heuchera.
Columbine.
Columbine.
Columbine.
Geranium.
Geranium.
Geranium.
Oldest oriental poppy started over 25 years ago and still blooms every year.
One year ago, this is what the sad office houseplant looked like!
Here is the Spathiphyllum in my Cardea office after one year.
Tonsai rose flowering.
Tonsai rose after leafing out.
Cutest baby bunny found its way into our yard and hung out with me while I rearranged my Tonsais.
Lovely iris flower.
Naughty bunny on the lawn.
Arboretum rose from seedling.