For the last few weeks I have been very busy making changes in my garden and I’m just about done with I wanted to do. Initially I had planned to remove all of the Canyon Prince Rye grasses, two sages and begin trimming many of the plants.
Winter and fall are very busy times if you have a native plant garden because most of the maintainence and planting is done then. With the recent rains that we’ve had, my garden has come to life and every day it looks a bit different and requires some attention.
Many of the bulbs are popping up due to a period of time when the temperatures were warmer and oh my gosh…there are a million California Poppy seedlings that have sprouted, even in the cracks of the sidewalk.
The fuschias are done blooming and they will be my next target for pruning within a couple of weeks or so and I do intend to put in a couple of new plants in a place where I just removed a Desert 4 O’clock that was under a window and was too messy.
I divided some Blue Eyed Grass today, as they are now beginning to be very happily established and since there are so many of them, I dug a few up and transplanted them to another location. I hope they don’t die but do well because they are so beautiful and I love their blue flower.
I moved two Salvia mellifera’s from the garden to the backyard and actually they came up pretty easily. But again, I don’t know if they will survive but hopefully they will, as I enjoy the smell of them and their beautiful blooms in the spring.
We are expecting some rain this weekend, so that’s why I wanted to get all of this done in time to take advantage of it and the cooler temperatures, too and I feel as though I have managed to complete what I set out to do.
Then there’s the Liquid Amber leaves. I have four of them in my front yard and I love them but everything is buried in their leaves and I can’t rake them up fast enough before they get deeper.
Whew! I ‘m tired but satisfied and I love how the garden is looking. All I need to do, is step outside, step into my garden, inhale its fragrance and sink into it’s tranquility.
