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january bloomday

Happy Jan­u­ary Bloom Day, folks!

Lots of pic­tures this month.

Okay I cheated, with some mul­ti­ples of the same plant mixed in. But a big dose of perky orange in the dead of win­ter seemed morally acceptable.

I guess it’s a typ­i­cal South­ern Cal­i­for­nia Jan­u­ary, with some ever-bloomers mixed in with the winter-flowering plants or last of the fall plants. You can hover over an image above to get the name, but here’s a quick run­down on the Jan­u­ary back­bone plants.

Some plants that say “Cal­i­for­nia” but are from other places:

Aloe arborescens

A. andon­gen­sis

A. baine­sii

Kalan­choe tubiflora

Jade plant, Cras­sula ovata

Salvia divi­no­rum

S. Hot Lips

Pro­tea ‘Pink Ice’

Laven­der

Arc­to­tis

Oxalis pur­purea

…and the really noxious

Oxalis pes-caprae

Cal­i­for­nia natives:

Core­op­sis maritima

C. gigan­tea

Ribes indeco­rum

Gutier­rezia californica

Car­pen­te­ria californica

Mimu­lus aurantiacus

Iso­meris arborea

Sphaer­al­cea ambigua

Galvezia spe­ciosa

Ver­bena lilacina

Salvia mel­lif­era

Salvia ‘Bee’s Bliss’

Salvia spathacea

There are also a few other things in bloom that didn’t make it into the mix, things like ‘Dr. Hurd’ man­zanita, but you get the idea…

Thanks as always to Carol of May Dreams Gar­dens for host­ing Gar­den Blog­gers’ Bloom Day. Check out the Jan­u­ary post to see what the rest of the world looks like in the mid­dle of Jan­u­ary [ here ]

January 14 2012 | Categories: gardening • my garden | Tags: • • • • | 25 Comments »