We're all getting older...

Out on a walk I found myself in front of a garden I used to visit rather frequently (2009, 2010, 2019 and many more), but it's been a while. What caught my eye (from the street) was the blue foliage of the Arctostaphylos and the fact plants in the hellstrip were pruned around the meter box.

Yucca leaves are cut back, the Arctostaphylos has been trained along the side (it even has a "pillow log" at one end).

It surely is a handsome plant, I wish I knew which one it is.

Okay, the temptation was too much, I had to walk around to the sidewalk and take a look at the garden.

It's been sixteen years that I've been putting eyes on this landscape. I've watched these plants grow up. That tall Yucca rostrata was chest high when I first saw it.

The home has had 3 or 4 owners that I know of, how wonderful that they've all let this plant (another Arctostaphylos I believe) continue to grow out over the driveway at this somewhat precarious angle.

It's a looker, that's for sure.

Turning back to the corner of the front garden I noticed (for what felt like the first time) how closely the Genista aetnensis (small tree to the right of the yucca trunk) was planted to the Yucca rostrata. I doubt it really seemed like an issue when they were smaller. I'm sorry I missed the Genista in bloom, it must have been dramatic (see others here).

Turning back to the hellstrip, there's another Arctostaphylos, with a skirt of opuntia.

Two more photos, both of a section of the front garden to the west of the home's front door sidewalk, another tall Yucca rostrata (actually a pair), a towering eucalyptus, agaves, and more...

It's really is crazy to be in one place long enough to watch a garden and plants (and not just your own) grow up and reach middle age. We're all getting older, everyday...

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