3/31/08

Blake Garden in late March

I broke out of San Francisco today and visited the Blake Garden. We came here many times on the other blog, most recently last November. This is my first visit in 2008.

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

I held the camera over my head and clicked pictures one after another as I turned in a circle.

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

Then I turned the camera sideways and did it again.

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

That's all the shady front garden. The back garden is sun-drenched.

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

So many things that people let get shaggy look better limbed up and pruned. Like this fantastic yucca.

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

Ceanothus (Blake Garden)

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

Salvia leucophylla

Ceanothus + weedy Erigeron (Blake Garden)

Restio + rosemary.

Some restio (Blake Garden)

Heracleum lanatum (Blake Garden)

Blake Garden

Lupine (Blake Garden)

Salvia spathacea (Blake Garden)

Salvia spathacea (Blake Garden)

Scilla...litardieri?

Some lupine (Blake Garden)

Lupine in front of Berberis thunbergii (Blake Garden)

Echium sp. (Blake Garden)

Blake Garden

Scilla peruviana (Blake Garden)

Wisteria (Blake Garden)

Blake Garden

That's Rosa banksiae climbing a pine.

Rosa banksiae (Blake Garden)

Blake Garden

Kerria japonica (Blake Garden)

Phlomis (Blake Garden)

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

A magnolia in each of the four corner beds around the little pond in the center.

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

Looks like some of them have survived some bad prunes. This is a teaching garden, so...

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

I wish someone would teach me how to make one of these.

Blake Garden

Every time I try to make something like this, it's a disaster.

Blake Garden

Maybe I just need more practice.

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

We're in the vegetable garden if that wasn't obvious.

Blake Garden

Blake Garden

Sparaxis (blake Garden)

I guess I didn't take many pictures in the vegetable garden. Back in to the ornamental garden?

Echium candicans + some acacia

Just a few more pictures.

Is this Rumex?

Is this Rumex?

Doryanthes palmeri

That's Doryanthes palmeri, and it's making a flower.

Doryanthes palmeri

Quercus suber.

Quercus suber (Blake Garden)

Blake Garden

5 comments:

Frances, said...

So beautiful, and one I know and grow, scilla peruviana? So many lovely shots. The veggie garden looked pretty too. Thanks for the tour.
Frances

gintoino said...

Wow! So many beautiful plants. And some I have here as natives, like Scilla peruviana and Phlomis purpurea (only too prove I'm right in using them in my garden ;-) )
What are the plants in pictures24,26,27,30?

gintoino said...

Wow! So many beautiful plants. And some I have here as natives, like Scilla peruviana and Phlomis purpurea (only too prove I'm right in using them in my garden ;-) )
What are the plants in pictures24,26,27,30?

chuck b. said...

24: A species of Lupinus I'm not sure about.

26: Salvia spathacea, a Califlornia native plant.

27: Scilla litardieri? I'm not sure.

30: Echium piniana? Also not sure.

lisa said...

Nice tour! LOVE the Quercus suber...I want to call it "Quercus SUPER"!