Contentment

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

-Cicero

Pink

When I was living in Los Angeles in a home with no garden, I was given a pink hydrangea.  Doing what any reasonable gardener would do, I planted it in a pot.  After I moved to our little cottage, I decided that since the pink hydrangrea seemed to like living in the pot, I would leave it there.

It is flourishing,

thriving, in the pot on the porch.

Hot Pink Hydrangreas

are very different from the cool blue plants my grandmother grew in her Pacific Northwest garden.

What's Bloomin'

Even though my garden is much smaller than my friend's backyard square foot garden, the poppies are blooming wildly among the 'poor man's orchids'.

The jasmine is twining its way up the trellises.

Oh so fragrant!

Mystery Rose

Recently, a friend gifted me with this rose bush from her lavender and rose farm.

Watching it bloom and seeing its flowers, I think it might be Eglantyne.

But I could be wrong.

Le Reina Rose

Basil

You really can't plant too much.

Dusk

Every evening, at dusk, the poppies close their eyes, wrap up in their silky blankets,

and fall asleep.

One bloom

from one of the dozen camellia bushes in my garden

Lent

Lenten Rose in bloom in my garden

What's Blooming

Variegated Camellias

Providing some bright Valentine's pink, this camellia blooms in my garden in the late winter.

Italian Parsley