wildfloweryard

🌼 A California garden’s flowers, plants & cats. 💐 Featuring many California native plants. 🌻 Also on Instagram and FB.

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Tiger is my gardening buddy. He mostly ignores me in the house, but I must have a catnip fragrance in the garden. He frolics in the flowers and tries to take weeds away from me as I’m pulling them. He’s been my satellite in the garden since he was a little guy.

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Goldie is the guardian of the west garden. I’ve got a lot of Iceland poppies starting to bloom.

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Dewy #poppyoftheday

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If you want a lot of butterflies in your garden, be sure to include plants both for larvae and mature butterfly. On my website I’ve updated my list of plants for larvae, butterflies and hummingbirds. This is a swallowtail on verbena in May. https://t.co/zykDDMbVGC

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This is one of my fave incidental pairings: California poppies volunteers come up every year around the catmint. These pics are from May.

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Orlaya grandiflora - reseeds prolifically so plant once and it comes back every year. I love how it fills in and provides high contrast in the garden. I have tiny seedlings coming up now. It germinates well in cool weather and is hardy to zone 2.

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Much of my garden is filled with volunteers. Random combinations that are ever changing. Coreopsis and orlaya, with a little gaillardia. They all grow easily from seed.

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My most liked pics of 2020. Happy New Year!

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Every cottage garden needs Digiplexis. Blooms nearly all year; woody foxglove hybrid. Perennial in warmer zones (8+); annual in colder zones. This one is orange/pink; earlier I got a new picture no one that should be equally stunning this coming year. This pic is from mid May.

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Vitus californica, the Golden State’s native grape on my fence. In my area it grows along creeks and up into Valley Oaks. Together, they form a beautiful canopy.

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This pretty fuchsia starting pushing out blossoms when temps fell in the fall.

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It shouldn’t be possible in my yard, but here’s a sunflower blooming in late December.

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First of the alliums to re-emerge. This is Allium neapolitanum which has a small head with white blossoms.

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Yes, we do have more than one cat bowl, but the bros would rather shove their faces into one.

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When I’m in the shade garden, so are the brothers, RP and Tiger.

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I think this is the earliest ever for Paperwhites to bloom in my yard. See my IGTV tour of my bulb container garden.

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Finally. The first anemone of the winter garden and I haven’t even planted all my corms yet. They’re part of a magnificent trio in my garden: anemones, ranunculus and Iceland poppies. They will bloom until summer heat takes them out and then they’ll go dormant for the summer.

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First ranunculus of the season in three perspectives. You can grow from corms or some locally owned nurseries sell in 6-packs for a quick start. They bloom for months with deadheading and come in so many fabulous color variations. 💛

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Californian and friends #poppyoftheday

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RP: the leading reason why potted plants look like they’ve been smothered.