Color in the Garden

"When selecting plants for your garden, you may want to consider what colors pollinators prefer. Bees---yellow, blue, purple, utraviolet; butterflies---red, orange, yellow, pink;....hummingbirds---red, orange, purple-red."
Angela Overy, Sex in Your Garden.

                     Roses, campanula and columbine in the front garden.

Pink valerian and bright yellow Dendromecon rigida (tree poppy) blooms......and butterflies are everywhere in the California natives section of my garden.  Anna Hummingbirds are particularly attracted to the creamy-white and pale purple salvia waverily blossoms.

Spring Blooming

"As for the roses, you could not help feeling they understood that roses are the only flowers that impress people at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing. Hundreds, yes literally hundreds, had come in a single night; the green bushes bowed down as though they had been visited by archangels."
Katherine Mansfield....The Garden-Party

In my Silverado Canyon Garden, the Iceburg roses and Cecil Brunner's (it seems overnight) are now blooming. The icebergs with white blossoms next to Iceland poppies. And in the native garden, Cecil Brunner with full-blown pink blossoms! The deep purple iris have also made an appearance and seem to be withstanding the heat in a respectable fashion. Jasmin Polyanthum scents the air and red-breasted male finches and drab brown females vie with a raucous scrub-jay at the bird feeder.

My Modest Garden......

"A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library."
Henri Frederic Amiel....Private Journal

Every day now I'm looking and waiting with anticipation for the cheerful California poppies and blush-pink Cecil Brunner climbing roses to bloom....this is instructing me in patience.....nothing happens before its time.

Late Afternoon

"It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dusk so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought."
James Douglas-----Down Shoe Lane

What's Blooming?

What's currently blooming in the garden?

So much...........Pink roses, purple iris, Anisondontea hybrid, Huchera Maxima and Canyon Pink, Azalea "George Tabor" "Alaka" and "California Snow", Blue-eyed grass, Diascia Red Ace, Coreopsis auriculata---"Nana", Anisodontea "Capensis", Bacopa, Oenothera---Evening Primrose, Hardenbergia, and Jasminum polyanthum.

Every flower glows.........

"It was the moment between six and seven when every flower.....glows."
                                                          Virginia Woolf  from Mrs. Dalloway