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| The Front Garden in February |
Welcome to the front garden! The cold night time temperatures we've been having, going down to 36F some nights, have damaged the lantana flowers, but, the plants themselves are doing OK.
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| Succulents Along the Side Wall |
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| Looking Along the Side Wall from the Sidewalk |
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| Aloe Flower Cluster |
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| Euryops Bushes Under the Eucalyptus Tree |
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| A Different Perspective (Sorry for the glare; it was a sunny day!) |
Meanwhile in the back garden:
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| The Back Garden |
The peach tree is leafing out:
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| The Peach Tree in February |
The citrus trees are starting to flower:
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| Lemon Tree with Buds and Flowers |
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| Orange Flowers and Buds |
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| More Orange Flowers |
The blueberry bushes are full of flowers, too:
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| Blueberry Flowers |
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| Plum Flower Buds |
Yes, those are osteospermum plants you see in the background, behind the plum tree. The plum tree is planted near the orange tree and the osteospermum plants are growing under the orange tree and flowering!
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| Osteospermum Flowers |
If M has his way, he'd uproot all the osteospermum plants from under the orange tree, but, I like them!
Thank you for visiting my garden! I hope you enjoyed it, blurry pictures and all! LOL.
I am grateful for:
- Having a garden to enjoy, especially during the lockdown and the pandemic
- M's help with the garden
- M's help with the garden
- Water for the garden
- Flowers
- Flowers
- Bees and other insects to help pollinate the flowers
My joyful activity was walking around the garden and sharing it with my blog readers.
Your garden is looking lovely and I like the osteospermum flowers under the orange tree too. Your aloe flowers are a gorgeous colour. Thank you for sharing your photos of your garden in February.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Eileen. I have a flower stalk on the aloe vera plant (the kind that is good for soothing burns, etc.), too, but that is yellow! You are quite welcome. :)
DeleteA wonderful tour of both your back & front gardens. How lovely to have all those flowers - fruit trees seem to have the most scented flowers.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mary-Lou. The citrus flowers have a lovely fragrance and if one goes outside in the evenings, the air is perfumed by them because many of my neighbors also have citrus trees in their gardens.
DeleteIt looks like all of your fruit trees and bushes are doing well. You may have bumper crops if the weather cooperates. Does M think the osteospermum are competing with the orange tree for water? Is that why he wants to remove them?
ReplyDeleteThe majority of the fruit trees are full of flowers, this year. The pomegranate tree is just starting to leaf out and I'm still waiting for the nectarine tree, persimmon tree, and Asian pear tree to come out of dormancy. I'm hopeful that I'll get some fruit from all those flowers, if the weather is good!
DeleteYes, M thinks the osteospermum are competing for water and nutrients, too. But, I don't grow many plants just for their flowers and the osteospermum just look so cheerful! I've tried growing vegetables under the orange tree - radishes, carrots, beets, etc., but, they didn't do too well.
Your gardens are just lovely. I am so jealous. I don't really have a real garden since we moved to a condo. You do a beautiful job! xo Diana
ReplyDeleteThank you, Diana. Much of the credit goes to M, my gardener; I just water between his twice weekly visits. :)
DeleteYour gardens are beautiful in February! Your fruit trees will be quite fruitful! andrea
ReplyDeleteThank you, Andrea; I'm hoping I'll have a good harvest of fruits and vegetables, but, "many a slip between cup and lip" as they say! It is hailing, right now!
DeleteWhat a treat to see photographs of all those lovely plants! I hope the fruiting ones will produce well later.
ReplyDeleteWe had sun today and yesterday's snow looks fresh and clean. We are not sure what happened to our plow guy (perhaps the machine broke?) but we did manage to get out.
Glad you enjoyed it, Bushlady. I, too, hope that the fruit trees will bear lots of fruit. It hailed here, today! Not enough to damage the plants, though. Rain is in the forecast for the next several days, which will be welcome.
DeleteHope your plow guy is OK!
Your gardens are beautiful! The fruit trees in flowers are so lovely. I'm envious of those, particularly the citrus! We are getting dumped with snow now, maybe over a foot already. I don't mind because I know spring isn't far away!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Celie. I saw on the news that the Midwest is getting snow. Parts of California are getting snow, too, and I had hail! Hope you are managing to keep warm and be careful driving in that snow!
DeleteI always love it when you share your garden pics. It may sound silly, but it seems so exotic and wondrous to me. I loved the aloe flowers and the lemon tree blossoms.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
Thank you, Lyssa; I'm glad you enjoyed the garden pictures. I know I love it when you post pictures of your garden, especially that fuchsia. :)
DeleteThe fuchsia is still dormant, but I'm sure it won't be long before it springs into excessive life again lol!
DeleteAnd when it does, I hope you'll post pictures of its exuberance!
DeleteWonderful images this month! I liked the different perspective in the front yard. It helps orient me to what we've been seeing in the past.
ReplyDeleteThat little wall - that borders neighbor T's house? and that's your driveway? I think your garage is on that side?
You are going to have a banner fruit year if those images are any indication.
Thank you, Debra. Yes, there is a short wall between my house and T's house, with a slightly higher wall further down, and they run along my driveway which leads to the garage. I'll try to take a better picture, later! :)
DeleteI'm keeping my fingers crossed that there will be plenty of fruit, if all goes well with the weather.
Wow the garden is looking fantastic! It is really coming to life.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sharon. Right now, the garden is a bit water logged after all the rain we've had in the last 24 hours!
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