New Year's Flowers
Happy 2020! I took these pictures in my garden, Finch Arboretum in west Spokane, and Spokane Community College in east Spokane.
The last of my Crocus speciosus, blooming since October
A sweetly scented viola, on my patio
Helleborus niger 'Jesko'. I can't believe I have to bait for slugs in winter!
Wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox). The perfume combines sambac jasmine and Juicy Fruit gum.
Witch hazel, at Finch Arboretum. This plant's been blooming since October
Viburnum 'Dawn'
Viburnum farreri, one of the parents of 'Dawn'. Close!
Libocedrus decurrens, the incense cedar. The foliage is powerfully fragrant when crushed
Witch hazel again. This one is at SCC.
Choysia x 'Bluestone'. The flowers look like citrus blossoms, but have a very different fragrance, and the foliage is also aromatic. Most sources give these shrubs a zone 7 or 8 rating, but they're probably 6B, at least in the Northwest. My 'Aztec Pearl' choysia is 8' tall and shrugged off -3F.
Azara microphylla, from Chile, in winter number 3. Vanilla scented puffball flowers in early spring.
Here's the choysia, with the azara lurking in back, in their east facing bed next to a greenhouse at SCC.
That's it for now. Spring's coming!!!
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Comments (1)It looks like a Primula but I can't tell which one....See MoreHappy New Year ... and please have that yummylicious TIRAMISU!
Comments (4)Thanks Alana! Actually I haven't tasted the edible Tiramisu yet, so I do not now what it tastes like. I first heard the word Tiramisu in the movie 'Sleepless in Seattle', a very enjoyable romantic comedy movie starred Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan :-) Hatta...See MoreSlc. Rimfire 'Kanan'
Comments (6)Sharon, i don't know what's wrong with this link. I myself cannot see it now. Here is another photo of it. Hope you would like it....See MoreTwo new flowers for me this year
Comments (6)Pretty! I wouldn't have guessed that was cosmos. You might get some interesting seedlings. Are you having to stake them? My single flowered cosmos that I have this year are tall and flopping a little....See Moremichaelspokane
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoOnce, my garden was described by the officials of The Inland Empire Gardeners, in a write up prior to a club tour, as looking as though it had been lifted right off of Bainbridge Island. I grow hardy fuchsias, aucubas, mahonias, daphnes, bamboos, rhododendrons, azaleas, jasmines, Magnolia grandiflora, roses, Iris foetidissima, Skimmia japonica, Prunus laurocerasus and lusitanica (now a small tree), various evergreen ferns, sarcococca, Trochodendron aralioides, etc. I identify with the temperate rainforest look rather than the spruce, pine, and juniper look of Colorado. I'm happy here.
Pictures taken just now.One more
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