the winter garden is exuberant.
we've had more rain than last year at this time and it shows.
everything is budding & blossoming.
some of the succulents are trying to become giants.
the sky looks like this:
flotillas of clouds drifting by. soon the rain will begin.
i was hoping it would be here by now.
the bougainvillia is a bramble thicket.
some sort of winged creature is creeping down the burgundy wine euphorbia branch in the photo above. i didn't notice him when i was taking the picture.
for the first time in the history of never the lemon tree has a lemon.
maybe i'll get a bumper crop of peaches this year.
the african sumac tree is behaving strangely and having erratic growth spurts. its the juvenile delinquent of the garden.
the red bougainvillia is sending out long branches that i wind around the fence.
some of the oleanders are beginning to flower and others are making giant seed pods.
if you're buried under a blanket of cold try and find an air pocket to breathe through. spring is heading your way.
i wouldn't kid about a thing like that. HOLD ON. and please do enjoy a big roaring fire for me.
I too have a lemon tree, and while mine had always done well a few years ago it lost every last leaf. It was bald, bald, bald… but strangely still had lemons. Anyway, a friend said to try citrus food spikes. I did and my tree has been happier than ever. Just thought you might want to try the spikes. They’re very inexpensive and could bring lots of lemons for lemonade this summer! Good luck.
You have the quintessential LA garden! Ticks off every box…beautiful.
jan those wonderous black rosettes (one of my favs) are called Aeonium arboreum black Zwartkop
I have never seen some of your plants before!! The ones that really caught my eye are the large leaved black succulents (?) Love your garden tour! Am still making my way thru each week of Sketchbookery….Having tons of fun. Thanks for including so many of us in your art making times….My garden is just now peeking out..daffodil leaves are showing.
Thanks for the visit….everything out my window is white and brown with a blue sky.I’m looking at long tree shadows crossing the deer paths made in the snow in my back yard. Pretty but not warm and colorful…want to trade?
This is too much to take for someone who lives in a place where it snows and rains at the same time right now. Lemons on a lemon tree, bougainvillia and oleanders. Sigh.
Spring awakenings to you and your beautiful jardin!
Your garden is lush and delightful. I love the meandering rock border down the front lawn of Moss Cottage, and all that it contains.
I am still laughing out loud at the juvenile delinquent comment. What a hoot! The cottage and gardens are truly beautiful. Enjoy.
Not a hint of spring here in KC (well, except the bulb foliage peeking). Snowy and cold. Love your flora and fauna, with the peach blossoms and lavender with topknots being the favorites. 🙂
Go little lemon tree!
Beautiful photos! I don’t care that much for succulents but your’s are gorgeous.
The last time I saw lavender as striking as yours was our trip to Point Vicente Lighthouse in Palos Verde a few years ago. We walked around the interpretive center and I sneakily plucked a few flowers so I could research the hybrid when I got home. It had the most amazing lemony lavender smell. I kept the leaves and buds in a celluloid box that belonged to my grandmother and the fragrance was heady for a long time. Thanks for the memories, here as the snow falls.
Lovely succulents and other bits of greenery. The critter crawling down your Sumac tree is a Cicada…they lay dormant underground for years, come out of hiding to mate, then die…Not my idea of the good life! Their wings make a sound that is deafening here in the high desert…I can’t stand it, drives me mad.
Oh so lovely!! I could get lost in your garden.
A feast for the eyes! Even up here in the Pacific NW it appears that spring has sprung. Flowering cherries everywhere. Rhoddies are blooming all over town, daffodils and tulips are already blooming. So very, very early for us this year. It makes we worry for summer! We have no real snow pack this year. I foresee water rationing in the hot months, so I am enjoying the green and flowers and abundance of this early spring.
XO
OMG!!!! Oh Mary Ann how your garden grows. You have no idea how adorable Moss Cottage looks tucked in among all that sweet, luscious, greenery. Your photos are gorgeous. Just looking at them, getting lost in them, I could almost feel the warmth, the scent of things growing and blooming. I can honestly I was whisked away for a few brief moments. It was wonderful. It’s been just cold here, no snow to speak of in weeks, but we’ve been warned that we might get some in a few days. I love my Minnesota winters but if it’s going to be cold there had best be snow to go with it. Harumpfh. I’d light a fire if we had a fireplace and I’d send you a secret message with smoke signals so for now, just pretend you see me waving at you like a crazy person, clapping my hands together for warmth and all that jumping up and down is my ‘it’s too cold to just stand still dance’ and wish you a lovely, lovely Sunday. 🙂
Call me when it’s time to harvest the peaches and we’ll make peach pies and eat them on the porch. Maybe we can set up a pie stand and sell some to the neighbors if we don’t eat them all. Which we probably will. So forget that idea.
Your garden gives me hope–we had 6 inches of snow here yesterday! But…it’s supposed to be 55 on Tuesday! Hope springs eternal.
My weekly visit here for the sheer beauty…God, it’s so beautiful here! I love plants, and yours are AMAZING! As always, thank you! Although I love where I come from, for rooted reasons, scenery is not one of them.
I am green with envy.. Snow .snow and more snow . That’s all
All I see is white cold bitter … Yucky-ness…
So is scroll through your pictures with the starvation of drool rolling off my lips..
(Didn’t mean that to sound so weird) lol so I’m tired of painting pinetrees!
Can I just paint your beautiful garden .. The buds .. Every nook makes me want to run to my paints and use the colors that have been hiding this disputable winter… I will start with the euphorbias!! Swoon! Xoxo
Congratulations on your lemon! Rain started here about 10:30 this morning and was on and off all day – love it!!
Erin in Morro Bay
Your garden is looking splendiferous!! I don’t care that Spell check tells me this is not a word but it is!! Magnificent! We are supposed to get some rain here this weekend in northern California but slowly our flowers are also starting to bloom!
Can’t wait to see more of how your lovely garden unfolds!