Front Yard: End of May 2015

Some photos from the front yard over the past couple of days. The laurels are looking really lush and green and I planted some Pampas grass between the two Shasta daisies. I already don't miss the cypress.

Garden: Last Week of May 2015

Some photos around the garden the last couple of days:

Eve and Italian Stone Pine: Both 2 Years Old

Early May

These photos taken from first week of May and the day after Mother's Day (the cool gray pictures):

Villa Roma Sweet Peas

Kitchen Garden

KG with Klomparens Cypress

Mock Orange - shaping into a tree form

West Hopvine

Baby Cypress

West Italian Plum

Mock Orange Shrubs

Planter with 'Golden Balcony' Begonia

Lilacs

Baltic Ivy

Azalea losing flowers

Lilacs

Calibrachoas

Kerry's Lemon repotted



East Hopvine

Middle Hopvine

Cool morning 5/11/2015

5/11/2015

Red Twig Dogwood Shrub

Sweet Autumn Clematis



Repotted
Lemon #1 (brown pot) putting out leaves



Repotted
Lemon #2 (blue pot) putting out leaves

'Gallery Yellow' Lupines

Mediterranean Bells

5/11/2015
 

5/11/2015

'Golden Sentinel' apples

Golden Sentinel

Cool morning 5/11/2015

The only two flowers on the Thumbergia vine 5/11/2015

Fellemberg Plum

I purchased 2 Fellemberg plum trees (also known as "Italian Plum") from Stark Bros. nursery. One of them had a trunk that was bowed, and since it's in the front yard meant to flank the garden entry, I asked them to send a new one. They did so on the spot - I have to say I'm 100% thrilled with their customer service.

I removed the bowed one and gave it to Kerry H. - I hope they get a lot of years of enjoyment out of it!

Unfortunately, when I pruned the other plum, I left a wound on the trunk. Some of the bark was left in a flap. I cut it off clean this morning so hopefully it will heal without any borers or infection.
 This one I will be calling the "west plum".