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| The Front Garden in May (5/20/23) |
Here's the latest installment of the monthly photos of the front garden, taken on or around the 20th of the month! The osteospermum have stopped flowering but the lantana is making up for that!
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| The Lantana Border |
The other day, when I was out walking, one of my neighbors across the street from me commented on the lantana, admiring the colors.
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| Lantana in Bloom |
A look at the garden from the other end:
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| The Garden from the Other End |
This side of the garden is where I have planted most of the succulents and M brought me another new succulent to add to the collection on Wednesday:
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| New Succulent |
He didn't tell me the name of the plant, but, he said it gets spikes of orange or red flowers. I think I might have to widen the succulents border!
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| My Favorite Section of the Succulents Border |
In front of the succulents border, I have the succulents circle where I have aloe plants and aeoniums growing, plus the newly planted jacaranda seedling which seems to be doing fine.
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| Jacaranda Tree and Aloe Plants |
Closer to the driveway, I have a couple of native plants growing, including this White Sage. It had remained fairly compact for the past couple of years, but, this year, after all that rain we had, it really shot up! M is over 6 ft. tall and this plant is at least a foot taller. We believe it is getting ready to flower and apparently, bees love the flowers.
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| White Sage |
Another plant that is flowering now is the pomegranate tree:
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| Pomegranate Flowers |
I'm hoping to get a good crop of pomegranates, this year.
And finally, closer to the front door, the pink geraniums are still flowering:
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| Pink Geraniums |
Thank you for visiting the front garden with me. Do you have a front garden? If so, what do you have growing in it?
Beautiful flowers and plants. I am off to get some plants today for my boxes and a couple of hanging plants. xo Diana
ReplyDeleteThank you, Diana; sounds like it is finally planting season, up there! What are the plants you are planning to get?
DeleteYour front garden is looking lovely and the lantana is a beautiful colour and pomegranates too, oh I am envious. I only have a very small front garden with just a few bushes to enclose it and a small driveway just big enough for the one car.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Eileen. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'll get some pomegranates, this year. Last year, I only got five or six very small ones (they still tasted good, though). Sounds like your front garden is easy to maintain. I had one neighbor who converted his front garden to a vegetable garden and I thought that was a good use of the space. But, he had a wall and a gate to keep people out of his garden, so no one passing by could pick his vegetables. He sold his house and the people who bought it from him have planted a lawn (one of the few people in my neighborhood to still have a lawn).
DeleteI love lantanas. Yours are lovely. I bought a small one last week for a pot. They don't overwinter here. My front garden isn't doing well. The irises are not producing flowers at all. I think I need to clear it out some.
ReplyDeleteI did an online search for overwintering potted lantana and apparently, it is possible to do so, but you have to bring them indoors, reduce watering, stop fertilizing, and provide it with some sunlight. Do a search and see if it is something you might want to do.
DeleteSorry to hear that your front garden isn't doing well and the irises are not flowering. Maybe they need more time; I noticed that some of my plants took longer than usual to flower, this year.
Your front garden is just lovely. I am not sure I would call mine a front garden. It is more of a lawn with shrubbery, but right now the hydrangeas that were not harmed by the winter are blooming like crazy. The others are just green and most likely will not bloom this year. I am just glad they survived.
ReplyDeleteMy good news is the larger pear tree has quite a few baby pears this year. (The squirrels have not found it __yet)
Thank you, Anne. Your front garden sounds a lot like mine used to be when I first bought the house - it was mostly lawn with a row of tall plants forming a hedge on the walk up to the front door. My mother couldn't wait to remove that hedge and plant flowers! Glad that at least some of your hydrangeas survived and are blooming now. I've not had much luck with growing hydrangeas.
DeleteYay for baby pears! Let's continue to hope that the squirrels will leave the plant alone! Apparently peppermint, garlic, hot chili peppers keep squirrels away. Perhaps plant a few of these plants around the base of your pear tree?
To live in a semi-arid climate, you have a lot of green. The lantanas are always a favorite of mine. We have mostly lawn in the front with some azaleas and holly bushes. Soon, I'll be planting a row of begonias in front to the bushes. They do well in that spot, so that's what I plant every year.
ReplyDeleteWe had a lot of rain this year, so the garden got well watered. Also, it has not been very hot, yet. So, the plants are doing well.
DeleteI've seen photos of your azaleas and the begonias from prior years and they put on quite a show. :)
The lantana is very pretty and that spiky succulent is interesting. I wonder if it will have red or orange flowers? Nice to be able to look forward to the surprise. I like that photo of your favourite part of the succulent border. They look very comfortable together. What kind is the tall tree? You've probably told us in the past and I've forgotten!
ReplyDeleteWe have been admiring our son's front garden with lots of tulips and an apple tree in blossom. We had a lovely visit. He has given me some geranium plants he grew, a paler pink than yours, and a red one.
Thank you, Bushlady. The lantana looked almost dead, last year, and I was about ready to remove them! I'm glad I didn't! They just needed more water than I had been willing to give them during the drought! I'm looking forward to seeing the flowers on the new succulent. According to M, it will spread. The tall tree is the eucalyptus. I need to have it trimmed again, this summer (I do it every other year).
DeleteYour son's front garden sounds lovely. I remember the pictures you sent me, last year. Glad you had a lovely visit and are safely home, again. How lovely to get some geranium plants from him! Red geraniums are classic, aren't they?
It absolutely blows my mind that you have a pomegranate tree! It's one of my favorite fruits! I wish I could grow one where I live. The lantana is gorgeous! Everything looks so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mandy. Yes, pomegranates grow well in our climate. :)
DeleteYour garden is looking so pretty, and the latana is absolutely gorgeous. Xx
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jules. The weather is cooler than normal and that helps with keeping everything green!
DeleteThank you for showing us your front garden this month. Yes, that lantana looks beautiful! No wonder your neighbor commented. I always enjoy what I call "borrowed landscape" from my neighbors as I'm sure she does with you.
ReplyDeleteI too like that section of your succulent border that you really like - with all the different shadings of color and leaf sizes.
In my front yard I have a bed of peonies along the driveway that have so many buds this year on the 3 bushes. I am looking forward to them opening. My Japanese Iris just opened this week and they are a very pretty dark purple.
My pleasure, Debra. :) It has been cooler than normal, so everything in the front garden is still green and the lantana is having an extended flowering season!
DeleteYour front garden sounds lovely with the peonies and the irises. :)
Funnily enough, yesterday on the TV I was hearing that someone had written in about a pomegranate tree near them, which was bearing loads of fruit! A symptom of climate change, no doubt, but sort of exciting too!
ReplyDeleteInteresting! I know Eileen T (at A Bracelet of Days) had bought a pomegranate plant, last year, and it had one baby pomegranate before winter hit. I don't know if her plant survived winter.
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