Monday, December 21, 2020

Happy Solstice!

Well, we have hit the very shortest day of the year and now the days begin to get incrementally longer. It's some small thing to look forward to, among this pandemic madness. Our gardens too are largely at rest but there is always something going on in my garden so here are a few visuals to treasure.

My Banksia ericifolia's first flower is slowly getting bigger and acquiring color. This specimen was bought in a one gallon pot so started small.

Bouvardia ternifolia. This hummingbird favorite always seems to be in bloom.

My favorite 'blue' this year is this Salvia bullulata Pale Form. Flowers are tiny but I love that color.

Popular with bees and hummers alike, my Anisodontea Strybing Sunset is another plant that always seems to be in bloom.

This pup from my Aeonium Sunburst has taken up residence in a pot.

My favorite new pot. If it looks big, it is! I'm not moving it again!

My Sideritis cypria has been a revelation this year. Bushy, very silvery, constantly putting out flower spikes. A marvel!

The first of my many camellias to bloom is usually this C. Winner's Circle. Lovely coral-pink blossoms.

Showing a bit earlier than in past years, my Camellia Lila Naff has put out its first soft pink blossom. So pretty.

It took awhile but my Loropetalum Purple Majesty is finally filling out. Known as Chinese Fringe Flower, this genus can be long lived and is very versatile in its use.

Though 99% of Magnolia trees are deciduous, this M. grandiflorum 'Little Gem' is an evergreen type. Known as southern magnolia for it being so common in the American south, it flowers in the summer and fall, not in the late winter like the deciduous magnolias.

Melianthus pectinatus. These tiny reddish-orange flowers are very different than those of the more common Melianthus major but to me they're just as lovely.

Just one, but this Scabiosa Florist's Blue flower is still a welcome sight.

Most of this Thunbergia gregorii's flowers are on my side of the fence but I thought this one looked quite smart peeking through the lathe slats.

A cat laying about in the sun? Quick get your camera! lol. This is one of my cat's favorite places to sun herself, keeping an ear out, if not an eye, on what I'm doing nearby in the garden.

Aechmea fulgens. That's it with the red flower spike. The palmate yellow leaves to the left are fig leaves turning their fall color before they drop.

Cuphea oreophila. 'Oreophila?' Isn't that like an obsession with Oreo cookies? ...


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