Sunday, May 5, 2019

Front Garden in May

I took a few photos of the front garden, over the weekend.  The front garden gets more sun than the back and I have a harder time getting my plants to grow.

But, the pomegranate tree is in bloom:

Pomegranate Tree




Pomegranate Flowers

So is the feijoa or pineapple guava tree:

Feijoa Flowers
The flower petals are edible and the mockingbirds love them!  I prefer to eat the fruit, rather than the flowers!  I have three feijoa trees growing along the side of the house.


The front flower beds are not looking their best now that the osteospermum have finished flowering, other than a couple of flowers, here and there:

Osteospermum and Dusty Miller plants
But, the plants are still green, so I will keep them a bit longer before cutting them back.  Also, they are setting seeds.  I collected a few more seeds and scattered them along the parkway in front, where there is nothing growing, right now.  I think birds are eating most of the seeds I've been scattering, but, even if only some grow, they will self-seed themselves and I might have something growing in the parkway, next year.  I also gave some of the seeds I collected to neighbor S, across the street, as she had been admiring my flowers.

Aeonium Flower Stalk
Another Type of Aeonium Flower Stalk

The succulents I planted in the front garden are starting to flower.  I have a couple of different types of aeoniums that are flowering right now.  The flower stalk in the photo on the left has almost finished flowering; the stalk in the photo on the right is just starting to flower.  It has creamy white flowers that the bees seem to like:

Bee Visiting the Flowers
The front garden is a good spot for succulents and I have them growing along the side wall; some of them are flowering, too:

Succulents along the side wall
Succulents Flower Stalks
























I didn't take a photo of the lantana, but, they are doing well, too.  M watered the front garden on Friday, but the ground looks very dry.  I shall water it, again, tomorrow.  I turned the sprinklers on at the back, this evening, so I don't need to water the back garden for a couple of days. 

I hope you enjoyed the tour of the front garden.  How is your garden coming along?

14 comments:

  1. Just lovely. The pomegranate flowers are my favourite - such a vibrant shade. X

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    1. Thank you, Jules. They are a nice, orangey-red, aren't they?

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  2. My garden needs a lot of attention as it all went to pot when I couldn’t bend due to the problems with my eyes. I’m hoping to tackle some of it today but think I may need to ask for some help with some of the heavier work.

    You have a lovely selection of plants and trees in your garden, and I so envious of your pomegranate tree!

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    1. I think it is good to get some help with the heavier work, Eileen. I have M do most of the work for me; I do the watering and some weeding, that's all.

      The pomegranate tree was a gift from the monks at the Temple when I bought my house - it is considered lucky to have a pomegranate tree by the front entrance, I was told. :)

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  3. You have so many exotic-to-me plants. It's always fun to take a look around your garden.

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    1. Thank you, Live and Learn. I am glad you enjoy the garden photos. :)

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  4. Your garden looks beautiful. I just removed a huge Dusty Miller to make room for my new redwood fence. They also grow well from cuttings.

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    1. Thank you, Stephenie. I haven't tried rooting Dusty Miller cuttings, but, maybe I will! I have an oak leaf hydrangea cutting rooting in water, right now, and a cutting from a jade plant (which is ready to be planted, actually).

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  5. Everything looks so nice and healthy!

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    1. Thank you, Anne. Spring is a good time for my garden. Come summer, everything gets scorched!

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  6. I love how exotic (to me) fruits like pomegranate and guava have such beautiful flowers.
    I have a lovely pink hydrangea in a pot that was given to me at Easter and I am thinking I might plant it outside, perhaps close to the house where it will be sheltered. I have to do some reading. I did have a blue one that lasted for a while outside but with our winters they don't have much chance to survive for years. However, a good (3-4 feet) snow cover like this last winter might protect from the extreme cold!

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    1. They do have pretty flowers, don't they? It's their way of attracting pollinators to them, I suppose. I wouldn't have guessed that hydrangeas would survive your winters, but maybe they are hardier than I thought! I had planted hydrangeas, but they have died during the summers! But there are others with established hydrangeas growing in their gardens, in my neighborhood, so, I guess I didn't water them enough or something.

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  7. You have lots of beautiful flowers.
    My front garden is almost empty. I have some four o'clocks popping up from seeds and I need to plant them somewhere else soon.

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    1. Thank you, Nil. I think you'll find that the four o'clocks will self seed themselves and take over your garden, soon!

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