Greenhouse

Jason built us a greenhouse for the plants to overwinter!

He's handy.

Season 5: lessons learned

The Mediterranean-type plants really took the record-breaking heat in stride:

• Artemesia
• Bush Germander 'Azure'
• Lamb's Ear
• Catmint

And of course my antique roses and my iris performed beautifully, as they always do. I need more of those.

Next season I'm going to try to work on repetition and continuity. Hence, I pulled out the red Daylily. All that's left are the peach/pink ones (Jolyene Nichole and Barbara Mitchell).

Our backyard retreat

We love our patio.

After the hottest freakin' summer on record

...the garden doesn't look too bad! The lawn is pretty much dead, but the flower beds look pretty decent.

Pachy is all growed-up!

Look how big it got in just one Summer!

Sunset Alley

I call this section of my garden 'Sunset Alley' because it has California Poppies, Red Yucca and orange Aloe Striata blooms in the Spring.

I love glaucous plants.

I added a new Aloe variety this year and for some reason it's blooming in the Fall! The shark-skin looking plant to the left is supposedly also an Aloe Striata but I'm not convinced.

Spooky garden!