Hellebores
Disruption this week from both rain and a crew of painters repainting all 40 windows and doors on the house. 2.8" of rain over two days, bringing our rain year's total to 4.48".
This is the free Hellebore I got at a local nursery shutting down:
Metrosideros 'Springfire' providing significant support to the local nectar drinkers at the moment:
Magnolia stellata 'Royal Star':More Hellebores. These were from Trader Joe's last year and the year before:With Alstroemeria 'Indian Summer' and Sedum 'Angelina':
These are Gerberas dug up, split, and potted up to recover before replanting.
Little recent purchase Rosemary whoops, no Salvia rosmarinus 'Blue Spire' has lovely blue flowers:
A Gerbera in the ground is sloughing off old foliage because......there's plenty of new foliage coming in:The 'Springfire' down in the gully, also providing food for the nectar-drinkers:Hmm. Foliage detour. This Coleus uh...Plectranthus...uh, no, it's back in Coleus again. It looks pretty good surviving winter. Most of them don't. Bloomy color, no blooms. Yet.
Portent of spring--roses sprouting:
A volunteer Matthiola ("Stock"). The joy of these is their wonderful sweet fragrance I was able to inhale while taking this photo:Another 'Spring Fire':Aloe marlothii:Aloe gariepensis:Leucospermum 'Tango':Aloe petricola:Oh, what's that behind 'Vanzie'?
Leucadenron 'Reverse Polarity' has gotten quite tall:Tiny iceplant, Delosperma, maybe, that's always stayed tiny. It managed to survive the gopher that killed and ate three adjacent Agaves and a Mangave. The gopher was not interested in the iceplant.
Aloe striata
Grevillea 'Superb':Ah, that's what's behind 'Vanzie'--Arctotis 'Pink Sugar':Vivid on a gray day:And a native Lupine, L. succulentus: That's all there was time for.
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