My recent Bloom Day posts have been overloaded with photos so rather than bore readers with another long post, I tried to whittle down my photo collection to focus only on the most floriferous selections. Still, it is spring and in coastal southern California that means a plentiful supply of flowers.
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| This photo looking across one side of my front garden makes my point - up front are Grevillea 'Peaches & Cream', Echium candicans 'Star of Madeira' and Argyranthemum frutescens and in the distance you can see Jacobaea maritima, Tropaelum majus and Heuchera 'Bressingham hybrids' |
Grevilleas throughout the garden are blooming with abandon.
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| Grevillea 'Ned Kelly' |
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| Grevillea 'Peaches & Cream' |
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| Grevillea 'Superb' |
But
Grevillea isn't the only genus in full production mode.
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| Alstroemerias: noID coral, noID pink, and dwarf white 'Princess Claire' |
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| Coleonemas: C. album and C. pulchellum 'Sunset Gold' |
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| Gazanias: 'White Flame' (top). 'Gold Flame' (bottom, left) and 'Sunbather Otomi' (bottom, right) |
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| Pelargoniums, clockwise from upper left: 'Oldbury Duet', 'Golf Ball', noID double P. peltatum, 'Georgia Peach', P. tomentosum, and 'White Lady' |
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| Roses, clockwise from upper left: 'Medallion', 'Butter Cream', 'Joseph's Coat', 'Mutabilis', 'Pink Meidiland', noID white, 'Ebb Tide', and no ID lavender-pink |
There's color wherever I look.
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| Achillea 'Moonshine' surrounded by Geranium 'Tiny Monster' and Lobularia maritima |
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| Anagallis 'Wildcat Mandarin' and Arctotis 'Pink Sugar' (photobombed by Ozothamnus diosmifolius) |
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| The pink Argyrantemum frutescens doesn't fit well here but it'll stay for now. Surrounding it are white Argyranthemum, Osteospermum 'Berry White', and Lavandula stoechas 'Sugarberry Ruffles' |
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| Carpenteria californica with a carpet of Euphorbia 'Dean's Hybrid' at its feet |
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| Convolvulus sabatius 'Moroccan Beauty' intermingled with Brachyscome 'Enduring Blue' |
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| Leucadendron 'Pisa' underplanted with Solanum xanti, Salvia 'Amistad' and Cotula lineariloba 'Big Yellow Moon' |
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| Lupinus propinquus swallowing Felicia aethiopica |
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| Pansies (planted when I thought El Niño was meant to bring us rain) and Prunella grandiflora 'Freelander Blue' |
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| The unusual blooms of Salvia lanceolata |
Finally, here are some blooms I couldn't bring myself to ignore entirely:
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Top row: Aquilegia 'Sring Magic', common borage, and Lobelia valida 'Delft Blue'
Middle row: Gaura lindheimeri 'Snow Fountain', Lavandula stoechas 'Silver Anouk', and Scabiosa 'Vivid Violet'
Bottom row: the first blooms of Callistemon 'Cane's Hybrid', Centranthus ruber (a weed here) and Heuchera 'Bressingham Hybrids' |
For more April blooms,
visit Carol at May Dreams Gardens, our host for Garden bloggers' Bloom Day.
All material © 2012-2016 by Kris Peterson for Late to the Garden Party
