gbbd: the garden and beyond
It’s spring, all right. The garden continues to bloom away manically, but the outdoor places around town have been no slouch, either, when it comes to flowers.
This Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day, hosted by May Dreams Gardens, features a gallery of some blooms from the garden mixed in with blooms from Mission Trails Regional Park in San Diego.
In the top photo from Mission Trails you can see that the yellow-flowered deerweed, Lotus scoparius, has colonized many of the sunny areas that burned four and a half years ago. As the landscape recovers, other plants will come in and stake their claims. The second image from near the top of Fortuna Peak shows that other areas are also recovering from the fires, though slower than farther downslope.
You can hover over each image below for its name, or click it to see a larger photo. While you can probably tell what’s a wild plant and what’s in the garden, there’s an answer key at the end if you’re into quizzing yourself. (A few of thee are tricky in that they’re local native plants that have been incorporated into the garden.)
Answers:
Wild, garden, garden;
garden, wild, wild;
wild, garden wild;
garden, garden, garden;
garden, wild, garden;
wild, garden, wild;
wild, wild, wild.
April 15 2009 06:53 am | Categories: gardening • landscape | Tags: Add new tag • fire • fire ecology • flowers • gbbd • in bloom • Mission Trails Regional Park
tina on 15 Apr 2009 at 11:19 am #
Very beautiful!
Karen - An Artist's Garden on 15 Apr 2009 at 3:26 pm #
That was cool to see if I could guess which was garden and which was wild
Some nice images here
K
Town Mouse on 15 Apr 2009 at 7:14 pm #
What a clever idea! I had to cheat with some of the plants. Maybe you should have a contest next time ;->
Sweet Bay on 16 Apr 2009 at 8:23 am #
Lovely! My favorites are the California natives.
rosemarie on 17 Apr 2009 at 1:54 pm #
These are lovely — I don’t often get to see CA native plants (well, more like never). I was pretty bad at guessing what was wild and garden