gbbd february blooms

May Dreams Gar­dens has been host­ing the Gar­den Blogger’s Bloom Day for a while now. This is my first go at it, with a big sam­pling of what’s bloom­ing in the back yard gar­den right now. Sev­eral of the shots are of the same plant, so it might seem like there’s more in bloom than might first appear: When life gives you fewer flow­ers, you look at each one closer!

In the pho­tos above are:

  • Ranun­cu­lus Tecolote (white)
  • Oxalis pur­purea (white form)
  • Oxalis, ran­dom self-sown hybrid
  • Salvia nemerosa ‘Snow Hills’
  • Aly­sum that has self-sown from a plant­ing 15 or more years ago. The orig­i­nals were white and pur­ple. The new ones come all-white, or mix­tures of white and purple
  • African daisy (arc­to­tis hybrids)
  • Blue-eyed grass (Sisy­rinchium bel­lum)
  • Solanum pyra­can­thum
  • Ces­trum fas­ci­c­u­la­tum ‘Newellii’
  • Mother of thou­sands (Kalan­choe dai­gre­mon­tiana)
  • Pro­tea Pink Ice
  • Melam­podium Derby
  • Aeo­nium species
  • Your basic calla lily (Zant­edeschia aethiopica)
  • Euphor­bia lam­bii, in bud
  • Euphor­bia chara­cias subsp. wulfenii
  • Mizuna, escaped from a veg­etable gar­den plant­ing 10+ years ago
  • Alpine straw­berry
  • Hopi red dye amaranth
  • Heliotrope
  • Bird of paradise
  • Epi­den­drum orchids (red, orange)

I have a few cool Cal­i­for­nia natives begin­ning to flower in the front yard, and I’ll post more of them soon.

February 15 2009 02:34 pm | Categories: gardening • my garden | Tags: • • •

15 Responses to “gbbd february blooms”

  1. Lynn on 15 Feb 2009 at 3:01 pm #

    wow, your gallery looks lovely but the range of what’s in bloom is breath­tak­ing! ah, the Cal­i­for­nia sun…

  2. Karen - An Artists Garden on 15 Feb 2009 at 3:29 pm #

    I love how you have ordered the colours in your gallery of flow­ers it looks great.
    K

  3. Pam on 15 Feb 2009 at 6:02 pm #

    Aren’t you lucky to have such beau­ties in Feb­ru­ary! WoW!

  4. Jan on 15 Feb 2009 at 6:47 pm #

    The way you have dis­played your Feb­ru­ary blooms is won­der­ful. The white ranun­cu­lus is so lovely, but then, I am par­tial to white flowers.

    Jan
    Always Growing

  5. lostlandscape on 15 Feb 2009 at 7:26 pm #

    I guess San Diego is lucky to have a lot of win­ter flower oppor­tu­ni­ties. When all of you have things going crazy with flow­ers in the sum­mer, how­ever, I’ll be the one wish­ing for more flower-friendly weather.

    And Karen, I think you picked up on some of my orga­ni­za­tional ten­den­cies. Can you tell the dayjob is in a library orga­niz­ing information?

  6. Nancy on 15 Feb 2009 at 8:01 pm #

    You have some beau­ti­ful flow­ers. I’m try­ing my hand at a Bird of Par­adise this year. Do you have any tips?

  7. lostlandscape on 15 Feb 2009 at 8:33 pm #

    Thank you, Nancy! As far as the birds–For me they thrive on neglect, nearly-full sun, almost no added water, no extra food, sandy soil with low nutri­ents. If you have a fairly open spot that’d be best since they’ll even­tu­ally grow six or more feet across. But for a few years they may try your patience until they get really established.

  8. andrea on 15 Feb 2009 at 11:33 pm #

    lovely images you have there — and such a nice palette they make together!

  9. blossom on 16 Feb 2009 at 4:21 am #

    Hi .. I believe this is my first time here. Wow … you take beau­ti­ful pic­tures of beau­ti­ful flow­ers. Some of which I’ve never seen before. Thanks for sharing.

  10. lostlandscape on 16 Feb 2009 at 9:22 am #

    Andrea, Blossom–Thanks for stop­ping by! I just real­ized I didn’t have many flow­ers in the blue range in my list­ing. There are two I missed. That’s what next month is for, I guess…

  11. Pam/Digging on 16 Feb 2009 at 2:41 pm #

    All your col­ors are lovely, but I’m par­tic­u­larly fond of the yel­lows. They are the color of spring here in Austin.

  12. Layanee on 16 Feb 2009 at 4:08 pm #

    Wow! Great pho­tos and so much in bloom. I love the whites!

  13. Carol, May Dreams Gardens on 16 Feb 2009 at 4:49 pm #

    I love the way you have shown us your blooms. I’m look­ing for­ward to see­ing more in the months to come.

    Thanks for join­ing in for bloom day!

  14. Jean on 18 Feb 2009 at 8:51 am #

    What really gor­geous pho­tos (and flow­ers) you have. I espe­cially like the pro­tea. I really enjoyed look­ing at the rest of your blog as well.

  15. catz on 02 Mar 2009 at 8:34 am #

    James — Your col­lage of flow­ers is beau­ti­ful! I really enjoy vis­it­ing your site — always inter­est­ing, with beau­ti­ful pics.…thanks!

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