The Front Garden in January

 

The Front Garden in January 2025

This is the front garden in January.  It gets watered maybe once in 10 days or so and without any rain, even the weeds are not growing!  I am turning more and more towards succulents and drought-tolerant plants for the front garden.

We replanted a section of the planting bed that runs parallel to the driveway with succulents:

Succulents in the Planting Bed

They were given to me by M who got them from another client who didn't want them.  The rosemary plant beyond the succulents is doing well and the bees are enjoying its flowers.

There aren't a lot of flowers in the front garden, right now, but, the jade plants are doing their best to make the garden cheerful:

Jade Plant in Bloom

This jade plant gets more sun and has reddish leaves:

Flowering Jade Plant with Reddish Leaves

I love the clusters of the delicate star-shaped flowers:

Jade Plant Flowers

Not all the lantana plants are at their best, but, at least one of them is trying:

Lantana in Bloom

Nearby, one of the Euryops plants is flowering, too:

Euryops Plant in Bloom

The grey leaved plant (another gift from M), which is supposed to have blue flowers (it has not flowered yet), which someone said might be a type of sage, seems to be well adapted to the dry climate:

A Type of Sage?

In the meantime, the stumpery in the succulents border is settling into place very nicely, I think:

The Stumpery

The lack of rain (and my lack of watering) is affecting the newly planted parkway trees, too.  The Street Tree Maintenance people, who planted the parkway tree, removed one of the trees they planted (the flowering pear) and replace it with a second Australian Willow (Geijera parviflora) tree, and placed, not one, but, two watering bags!  They refill the bags every other week or so.

 

Two Water Bags are Better than One!

There is a chance of rain in the forecast for this weekend; if it does rain, then, maybe the garden will perk up a bit.  We shall see.

I hope you enjoyed your tour of the front garden.  We'll tour the back garden another day.  How is your garden coming along this January?