10 Spring - Mullien

We bought this mullien late last fall or winter. Its twin flower stocks have reached over five feet tall. The other mulliens we have grown over the years have been pink or red. This yellow one is spectacular, its color nearly unique in the gardens. We hope to harvest its seeds later this summer and replant it along the top of the terraces for another show next spring.

10 Spring - California Primrose

Our friend Richard Knight had accumulated a great selection of books, and his widow, Judith, recently gave us several from their library.

I looked through one on flowers and was happy it confirmed the flower I had been calling a California primrose is indeed an evening primrose that thrives in Northern California.

Over the last few weeks, I took several photographs of it in bloom with canterbury bells, delphiniums and love-in-the-mist.

2010 Spring - Canterbury Bells

15 months or so after I started them from seed, the canterbury bells are blooming. The ones in the garden between the garage doors have received the most sun, so they are the largest - about three feet tall by three feet wide - and are more fully in bloom. I especially like the flowers viewed in close up.