Oh my heavens, those are amazing pictures Paul!

Celia - you have snapdragons already? Wow.

No, those were all last summer and spring.

Gosh, I'm getting behind in all the posts... We were trying to get to the house in Carmel today. Some idiot w/ a tractor took out a gas line. They shut down Hwy 1 at Monterey. We went and had lunch, did some shopping... 3 hours later, we got there...

These are last year's pictures, but my Osmanthus delavayi is in bloom.. sweet scent too.


Clematis armandii also going strong


Last week- japanese plum and Magnolia 'Wada's Memory'


and don't get too excited, but my Cornus mas is in full bloom.. I have to put on my glasses to see this one.

All great pictures! They help, I'm still out of jail! It got up to near 20 yesterday and then flurries all night, not much though. We have a week of rollercoaster weather coming. Up and down temps. More snow on Wed.

Maybe we can make The Powers That Be turn their collective backs on you completely with some more color from last year.

Love this perspective, Sherry.

Henhouse said:Last week- japanese plum and Magnolia 'Wada's Memory'

Makes you curious? Lol I wanna look over the door...

It draws you in. Or out, depending on your perspective!

It's a wonderful picture. Everything about it says !

Sherry, is that gate photo entering or leaving? I love it! I've been seeing it as a view from your home or yard, curious if so?

very inviting!!

Funny, I was thinking I couldn't get a good shot of the trees.
The gate goes over to the cottage's back yard. Here's a shot from the other side.


Then it leads to stone stairs that go down to the road. This was taken about 2/3's of the way up.


Allegedly, all the stonework was done over 100 years ago by Chinese laborers who had been brought here to work on the railroads. There are a whole series of paths and ponds in various states of disrepair on the property. It must have been a beautiful garden at one time. No one that has rented the cottage has been interested in even maintaining the yard. And so it goes....

What a beautiful place! Looks so peaceful.

gemini_sage said:What a beautiful place! Looks so peaceful.

It really does

Since us "west coast residents" only get snow every in a while how about showing us some of your spring snow pictures!
Barbara

Think I could be happy, there.

Beautiful pictures and gardens everyone! Wish I had more time, energy, and money to get everything done that I would like too.!

Barbara, I felt like that for years, and still do from time to time, but one thing I appreciate about middle age is that I've come to realize that its the gardening journey that means most to me, rather than the end result. I used to long to see it all finished and complete, now I hope I never do.

June 2014