Creating a garden starts as an interest and soon becomes a lifetime’s obsession and one that can be engaged at a moment’s notice by simply stepping outside.

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

This Beautiful Fantastic:



If you take any flower you please, and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find out all its little secrets, not of flower only but of leaf, bud and stem as well, you will discover many wonderful things. This is how you make friends with plants, and very good friends you will find them....-Gertrude Jekyll



Kordes Perfecta

Broadway's blooms are a theatrical blend of golden yellow petals and heavily flushed reddish pink margins.
In the spotlight of the sun the color deepen. 

Princess Alexandra of Kent
With passionate deep pink blooms bursting with seemingly endless petals and delightful fragrance it's hard to see how anyone could resist falling in love with Pretty In Pink Eden Rose. 




Brown Turkey Fig

Venus and the Moon
And I will raise my hand up
Into the night time sky
And count the stars
That are shining in your eye
Just to dig it all and not to wonder
That's just fine
And I'll be satisfied
Not to read in between the lines
And I will walk and talk
In gardens all wet with rain
And I will never, ever, ever, ever
Grow so old again.
-Van Morrison
Santa Barbara Peach: Sweet 

Thompson Seedless
Abraham Darby Rose
Thompson Seedless





Princess Alexandra of Kent

Passion Flower 



Shirley Poppies and Cornflowers





Onion Flower

 Fritillary Butterfly: Good Pollinator


Calendrinia spectabilis
Boysenberries and Strawberries


Iceberg
















Shrubby Veronica



spider lily



Broadway Rose

Rest in Peace Dear Sweet Moonshine



Cymbidium



Globe Gilia


Sage

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carrot

baby pumpkin













lion's mane


yerba mansa 

Double Hollyhock

cosmo

foxglove

iceberg

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crimson clover



feverfew






borage





polygala

mulberries on the tree

blackberries









penstemmon

sea lavendar

Angel's trumpet




black crowned night heron



Blackbird


heart shaped iron ore that washed down the mountain during the mudslide
elephant ear 


jacaranda 


agapantha





 a work of art

When I am among the trees, 
especially the willows and the honey locust, 
equally the beech, the oaks, and the pines, 
they give off such hints of gladness. 
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.

I am so distant from the hope of myself, in which I have goodness, and discernment, 
and never hurry through the world but walk slowly, 
and bow often. 

Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, “Stay awhile.”


The light flows from their branches. 
And they call again, 
“It’s simple,” they say,
 “and you, too, have come into the world to do this, 
to go easy, 
to be filled with light, 
and to shine.”
-Mary Oliver







Clarkia

Clarkia








mustard

baby Hass

cape plumbago




















flannel flower


Anna Apple




San Pedro




























































Moon and Venus




Naked Lady (belladonna)






Santa Rosa
















Amistad (Friendship Sage)























Lost
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.

-- David Wagoner 













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