GBBD – April

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I haven’t participated in Carol’s monthly Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day posts for quite some time. Too busy. But April cannot be missed! It has been a beautiful spring. So when I realized it was the 15th and my taxes were mailed I grabbed the camera and this is what I got.

Heuchera rubescens ‘Yosemite’
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Cranefly on Mimulus ‘Eleanor’. There have been an abundance of these insects this year, especially near this monkeyflower. Don’t know why.
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Chinese houses (Collinsia heterophylla).
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Nolina parryi is covered with bees, as always.
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The oh-so photogenic globe gilia (Gilia capitata).
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Blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium bellum) is finishing up and the remaining flowers are much more purple than the earlier blooms.
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And there will be grapes on Roger’s Red grape.
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Wildflower mix with globe gilia, poppies, tidytips and desert mallow.

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Tidytips (Layia platyglossa).
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Can’t remember which seaside daisy (Erigeron glauca) this is.
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Small flowers on coffeeberry (Rhamnus californica ‘Eve Case’) will become showy berries in the summer.
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California Glory flannel bush (Fremontodendron ‘California Glory’) with backdrop of non-native Chinese fringe tree (Chinanthus retusus).
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Pacific Coast Hybrid iris.
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Honeybee on California Glory flannel bush flower.
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Ending where I started with a Wendy coral bell (Heuchera ‘Wendy’) with the brickred garage as a background color.
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10 thoughts on “GBBD – April

  1. I like that shot of the fremontodendron with the Chinese fringe tree. And I've never seen anything like that Pacific coast hybrid iris. Very interesting.

  2. I didn&#39;t even realize what Chinese houses looked like – and they are growing in my garden from a wildflower mix this year! ;^)<br /><br />Thanks! Wondered what they were…

  3. Oh, I&#39;m envious. I bought some tidy tips seed, and globe gilia, and poppies last fall from Larner. I still have them here. We had so much going on in the orchard, I didn&#39;t get a chance to plant them yet, so now I have to wait until fall. I&#39;m encouraged to see them growing so well for you though! Hopefully I&#39;ll see mine next spring…

  4. Hang on sweet flowers, and that lucky son and almost daughter-in-law will have a lovely garden wedding in hopefully not too many weeks!

  5. What a gorgeous wildflower mix! I have about half those same species in my yard, but your mix looks like a proper meadow while mine loos like a narrow border.

  6. I&#39;m sighing with contentment, gorgeous show! I just bought an Erigeron &#39;Wayne Roderick&#39; yesterday and they look remarkably like your mystery one, although I don&#39;t think I&#39;ve met &#39;Cape Sebastian&#39; and it could be that one, too.

  7. Christine – I just pulled out my planting log and I think it is Erigeron glaucus &#39;Bountiful&#39;. E. &#39;Wayne Roderick&#39; is a much deeper purple and it is a bit more upright. You probably have E. &#39;W.R.&#39; Yes, there is a &#39;W.R.&#39; (which stands for Wayne Roderick) and &#39;Wayne Roderick&#39;, and they are different. Could it be more confusing?

  8. What a great collection — and you&#39;re so far ahead of me. My Chinese Houses and Gilia are still just budding, and even one ceanothus is not in bloom yet. Ah, the joys of a shade garden. <br /><br />Happy Bloom Day!

  9. Gracious, Barbara thanks for setting me straight! I guess now its time for me to wiki Mr. Wayne Roderick to learn why he seems to be the patron saint of Erigeron.

  10. TM – wish things weren&#39;t so far along here and hope that something is in bloom in mid June! I saw your blog post and for us usually the irises come after the gilia, Chinese houses even later. <br /><br />Yeah, the Erigeron cultivars are mostly a mystery to me, though Wayne Roderick is actually kind of distinct. It took me some time to sort through the ones I sort of know… Pretty is pretty,

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