The Back Garden in March

Just a quick tour of the back garden on a March afternoon; this is the view of the back yard as you step out from the sliding glass door in the family room, which is a couple of feet above the ground.

The Back Garden: Looking Straight Ahead

The vegetable plot is towards the left of the picture, with one of the garden cats keeping an eye over everything.  The Asian pear tree is planted in the square bed towards the middle.

Looking to the right along the side wall:

Looking to the Right

Come down the steps from the sliding glass door and the first tree to the right is one of the curry leaf trees:

Curry Leaf Tree

Next to the first curry leaf tree is a bottle brush tree that grew from a seed from neighbor T's tree!  It's called that because the flowers look a bit like the brushes used to wash babies' bottles!

Bottle Brush Tree

A bit further down, this feijoa (pineapple guava) tree, growing right next to the wall; the orange tree (which can be glimpsed in the photo) is growing in front of it:

Feijoa (Pineapple Guava)

The corner between the side wall and the rear wall - the big pine tree at the very back is a neighbor's tree:

Corner of the Garden

There is a mixture of plants in this corner, including yucca, schefflera, and Euphorbia tirucalli (pencil plant), a bauhinia (orchid tree), a huge rosemary bush, and crocosmia along the side wall and foreground.

Rosemary Bush

The rosemary bush was planted from a cutting my mother received from a friend's garden.  I think it is at least 25 years old, if not more, and has a twisted trunk that defies description:

Rosemary Bush Trunk

I didn't take a photo of the plants along the back wall, this time, but, they include more of the Euphobia tirucalli, two pink oleander shrubs, and a pine tree.  At the corner of the back wall and the other side wall (between my garden and neighbor T's garden) is the telephone pole which can be seen in the photo below.  I planted two lantana plants and a plumbago plant along that side wall and over the years, they've grown into a mixed hedge that M needs to cut down at least once a year to keep it under some control!  This area of the back yard is behind the garage and the garden shed and has been neglected.  But, we planted the Fuyu persimmon, here, and we will try to clean it up a bit, over the coming months.

Lantana/Plumbago "Hedge" and Persimmon Plant in Foreground

Just to the left of this "hedge" is the garden shed and the back of the garage, with another curry leaf tree (and lots of little curry leaf seedlings - suckers, actually, as they come up from the roots of the main plant):

2nd Curry Leaf Tree 

This is another area of the garden that needs clearing - there are some purple Martha Washington geraniums growing here and a sprengeri fern that is trying to swallow up the shed!

Come around the corner of the garage, which is a detached structure, and you can see the three lemon trees growing along the side and my mini vegetable plot in front of it:

Side of Garage with Lemon Trees and Vegetable Plot

The lemon trees are starting to flower:

Lemon Flowers

Vegetable Plot:

Vegetable Plot

Broccoli Plants

Broccoli Close Up!

The vegetable plot is in front of the peach tree, where little peaches are starting to form!

Baby Peaches!

Nearby, the new nectarine plant has flowers (picture taken last week - the flowers are mostly spent, by now):

Nectarine Flowers

That is the back garden at the beginning of March.   Hope you enjoyed your tour of it!

I am grateful for:

- My garden

- All the hours of enjoyment it has provided and continues to provide

- All the fruit trees and edible plants growing in it and the harvests it provides

- This morning's blessing of a shower of rain and water for when it doesn't rain

- M for all his hard work maintaining the garden

Today's joyful activity was doing this garden tour!