Echiums.....this morning.....I can't wait, this year I have E. simplex to set out also...the white ones......








I know that mine will not do as well, different climate and our winds, but these are the E. simplex at Quail Garden, now San Diego Botanic...

Hey Sherry, It's only about 7 or 8 hundred miles difference...

Google Maps says 823 miles

When Jer made 5 trips back and forth moving up here, he counted every mile...I do miss Quail Gardens....

While out looking to see where I want too plants some stuff this wee, I see that there's one stalk of Verbascum blattaria that didn't quite die over Winter and has managed to put out a couple of sweet blooms...likewise, there's a Verbascum Governor George Aiken that did not really die down through Winter and is blooming...love the Verbascums...all of them....

it is that time of year when the local Trillium are up and about
here are several (not all) areas on my property with them
Trillium ovatum and Trillium kurabayashi the exotics have not come up yet

not blooming but really coming out this year is my Oakleaf Hydrangea
which i moved 2 years ago from shade to partial sun because it had gotten soooo straggly & ugly
and last year it put on some leaves



and this year it is not as colorful as Sherrys but is starting to look much better

Thanks for sharing, Dick! I haven't seen a trillium in person since I was a kid.

I think your Oakleaf looks more colorful than mine, Dick. I was so happy to see new growth on mine, they were looking really dead....they're never really great, probably could use more sun also, but nowhere else to put them....and I've also planted several more hydrangeas along there where they'll not get enough sun either...sigh....

I'm getting fond of this odd little Euphorbia....

i just realized i have something you don't have Sherry
in the pond

Pretty, Dick!

it is pretty flashy for skunk cabbage

Well, I don't have smell-o-vision so I still think it's pretty!

Dick, I'm pretty sure that you have a lot that I don't have.....lol..I think that's different Skunk Cabbage than I've seen before....? Was reading in Del Norte Natives this week about Skunk Cabbage, need to go back and read again, something about a rise in temperature......You have such a different situation on your property...forest, where I have small, sunny lot....I do know that I would not be able to take care of larger than this as I'm aging...lol..

I don't mind 'staying home', we usually do anyway (except that I wish I had gotten up to the Brookings art supply store)...once again, I will spend the Summer trying to catch up with all that needs doing...did cut back some of the grasses today and this last week...but...

E. 'Mr. Happy' again...still...

Lots of blooms in my front bed keeping bees and hummers happy

Oh, pretty...that's the nice thing about SoCal weather......

True, but there are so many things I love that just don't survive our erratic weather, and watering needs. I plant them hopefully, but they end up being annuals here.

We Want It ALL......