Friday, April 10, 2020

Photos from my garden last August; the back garden

We're back! Back in the back garden in 2019 that is. Yesterday we took a look at the front garden (here), now we've stepped through the gate and are confronted with plants. Lots of plants! It's a jungle back here...

A little color from the NOID crocosmia and canna.

The moss in my lawn has gone dormant, hence the odd coloration. I keep thinking I'll overseed in the spring or fall (whenever it is that you're supposed to do such a thing), but I never seem to get around to it.

A shot looking west, at the sunken patio, you'll be able to better see the 2-ft or so drop down in a later photo.

The summer shade pavilion, which becomes a winter greenhouse (read all about that here).

Bromeliad-land!

Looking back at the entrance...

And north, to the side of the neighbor's garage.

Taking this shot I'm standing just in front of the chair in the above photo.

Another look at bromeliad-land (I'm facing south) and the side of our garage.

And finally it's time to step down onto the patio...

...and check out all those containers!

The carnivorous collection, well, part of them.

Behind the large Agave ovatifolia 'Frosty Blue' is the stock tank pond. I didn't get a good shot showing it.

Looking towards the back of the house, which you can't possibly see...

Clifford, the big-leaf magnolia is getting huge. I guess Sammy (the Yucca rostrata 'Sapphire Skies') is too.

The shade pavilion, I'm looking south now.

The fern bowl and bromeliad dish, both newly planted up when this photo was taken.

The shady area behind our garage...

And a final look down at the patio. Here's to summer! And time hopefully spent here with friends... (fingers crossed)...

Weather Diary, Apr 9: Hi 75, Low 43/ Precip 0

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22 comments:

  1. elizabeth toepferApril 10, 2020

    I adore you collection of plants. Also containers. You have an artistic eye!

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  2. I like the orange highlights ... pots, pavilion and flower blossom ... in an otherwise multi-green garden.

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    1. I think I could be happy with all green...but the color-ups are nice.

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  3. I like your garden 'rooms' - each looks so inviting and intimate. I hope you get time to enjoy it!

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    1. It's been a sunny week so I've been out there everyday!

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  4. Sapphire Skies is a beauty as is the rest of your amazing plant collections. Yes, my friends and I are already planning our first visit this summer even if we have to sit 6' away from each other. Happy Easter!

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    1. It's amazing what a moral booster it is to see friends—not just talk on the phone—even if you can't be close.

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  5. The bromeliads look wonderful surrounded by ferns, making me wish once again that the latter were happier here. Sammy looks smashing! If you saw my pitiful Yucca rostrata specimen, acquired last year in a 4-inch pot, you'd either laugh or cry - I hope he grows out of his terrible twos soon.

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    1. Yucca rostrata in 4" pots are always a crap-shoot. I've never seen one look happy. I hope he makes it!

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  6. The orange pavilion has always been my favorite. It looks especially inviting in picture 5, where there is a shady side path leading up to it, while 'Clifford' is providing cover for the lush under planting. Yummy.

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    1. I still love that orange color as much as the day we painted it, I guess we chose correctly!

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  7. Such a beautiful garden. Loved the tour it gives us thought about all the wonderful things yet to come. Have a blessed weekend.

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  8. Looks to me like you're running out of room for new plants-maybe time to dig up more lawn !

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    1. Funny you should say that. Two big shrubs were removed last week and a small patch of lawn will be removed in the coming week or so...

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  9. what's the big feathery plant next to sammy with the pseudopanax ferox in front of it

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    1. Stachyurus salicifolius, just about to bust into bloom here in April.

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    2. thanks, your garden is bad ass

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  10. Losing lawn is always a good thing. Your raised bowl planters in Bromeliad land look wonderful above all that foliage.

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  11. So many beautiful plants! Your Pittosporum patulum got quite tall, it seems. I love that plant; wish it was available in my part of the world.

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  12. Everything is getting so grown in and big, and it looks so lush in your back garden! Here's to getting back to "regular" gardening and garden visits - not just virtual ones.

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