Dans le jardin
Camellias! I planted these pink and white variegated a few years back and they seem to be thriving along the shady side of the house. My grand-mère Lucille loved and cultivated camellias, and they always make me think of her.
We also have two very mature camellia plants? trees? in the same area…one white and one red. The white one is tough to get at for pictures, and the red one below is actually deeper red than the picture below indicates.
Lots of blooms-to-be on all of the camellia plants!
Over the summer we replaced some of the plants from our original yard makeover that hadn’t done as well. We put in a few of these below (I don’t know the name and have been too lazy to look up) which are tall and lacy, and now giving us these lovely red blooms.
I also haven’t looked up the name of these either, but I call them “popcorn plants” as the flowers look a bit like popcorn from a distance.
We’ve put some Mexican Sage in the front median between the sidewalk and street, and they seem to be doing well there.
Our dwarf orange and lemon trees in the back are giving us lots of fruit, but alas most of it is still too hard and sour to use.
And my yellow pear tomato plant re-seeded itself. I don’t harbor any illusions about fruit this time of year, but it is blooming, so who knows?
How does your garden grow?
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Well, we do have crocuses (just can’t do croci!) erupting and a few winter-flowering fragrant shrubs are in bloom, but tomato plants flowering? in February? So odd because here the camellia do bloom in February but never, never, never will they co-exist with flowering tomatoes here — at least not outside. Fascinating!
Thanks for sharing the gorgeous blooms. Enjoy your garden!
Your Camillas are lovely! Your yellow plant looks like it might be Spanish Broom–pretty, but it can be invasive. I had to have to very large ones removed from our xeriscaped yard. I’m interested in the plant with the tasseled blooms. I wonder if they’d work in New Mexico.
You have some beautiful flowers dans le jardin! We have un balcon that’s looking a decidedly ropey at the moment, roll on spring.
My mother-in-law had a rather celebrated garden in southern CA. It’s in the book “Desert Gardens.” We spent many happy hours in the Huntington Gardens (and library) before my in-laws moved to Sonoma County.
You’re so lucky to have a garden in that paradisal climate.
Your blooms are gorgeous.
Please tell me, are there two of you writing? I’ve seen photos of two lovely ladies, one with very short tresses and another with long. In fact, one was wearing boots and dresses and the other, a denim blouses with jeans. Please clarify.
Thank you.
joyce, if you’re referring to the blonde woman in the denim blouse and jeans, that’s Karen, who is a friend and an image consultant and occasionally pens a guest post here. I’m the one with the (usually) short hair.
Thank you for clearing that up.
Like a big mess at the moment:). Trying to muster up some energy to go attack it.
Nice flowers! My patio garden is definitely in need of some TLC, but my giant potted fuchsia is showing signs of life again with some green leaf buds. I thought for sure it had died of neglect. I just wish my patio got more sun during the winter.
Lovely garden selections! My Camilla is in full bloom too and makes for a cheery view in the garden. I used to grow Mexican sage also but it got too leggy after several years and I yanked it out intending to replace with new plants but haven’t yet – love the bloom and easy care. Drought tolerance is a key factor in choosing new garden plants in my neck of the woods (or concrete jungle as the case may be!). Enjoy that beautiful garden of yours!
I find it impossible to believe that you have all those beautiful plants blooming already NOW.
We have one meter of snow, and more to come, so that´s how my garden looks!
Oh, your plants are stunningly beautiful and the photography is as well!! I love camellias and my one bush has already finished blooming. My daphne with the heavenly fragrance is in bloom and the early daffodils are out but the low temperatures last week made them droop over. Oh yes, winter honeysuckle, also divine scent, has been blooming for several weeks. I’m really into fragrant plants. Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful things!
I am so jealous, your camellias look great!
Your mystery plant is a grevillea and your popcorn plant looks like some kind of broom (they can be both invasive and highly allergenic). I love grevilleas, yours are gorgeous!
Anne, thank you! I’m not too worried about the broom, they’re in a contained space, and if they have to duke it out for dominance, they’re going up against lavender, which are pretty tough contenders.
My dad started growing camelias “competitively” a few years ago, and whenever I see them, I think of him. I had them in my yard in Pacific Gr@ve, but they were never as spectacular as his are in Pasadena.
No garden for me these days, but I have a bunch of flowers on The Big Orange Thing. Does that count?
The camellias are achingly beautiful. I’m now severely homesick. Mother had many camellia bushes in our yard. She had the varieties you show, the pink with a double center & the pink single. She had a very pale pink double camellia, a white double & single, two red varieties. I haven’t thought about them in a long time but, of course, it’s February and they’re in bloom. We had a long winding walkway along the periphery of the planted gardens which were filled with azaleas, camellias, primroses, pansies, the occasional large fern, ivy climbing the redwood fence. We had crepe myrtles in three colors and dozens of rose bushes. My mother had a weekly gardner and he tended them. She clipped fresh flowers for the house, a custom I took over when old enough. I sure do miss all of the above; most of which do not grow in the cold hard soil of New England.
your camellias are gorgeous! i’ve always called them bushes or shrubs. i guess depends on size of said plant..? we had them in alabama when i was a child, and they were large bushes.
this winter, we are fortunate to have luscious, sweet oranges, tangerines and grapefruits in our backyard.
It’s in the 70s here today and the garden is busting out all over with daffodils, pear blossoms and tulips. I’m jealous of your lemon crop! There was one meyer lemon on our tree — I picked, sliced and popped it in a pot of chicken stew.