4/21/13

Sacramento's WPA garden

Just got home from a fabulously fun, garden-centric weekend in Sacramento with my friend Carri Stokes and her family. We visited Carri's favorite first, the WPA garden, a 1-acre gem in William Land Park. You can read about it here

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It was surprise to find a pink-flowering horsechestnut here (Aesculus x carnea), a really great tree that we don't see enough of in California. There are a number of them up and down Dolores Street here in San Francisco, but that's about it and I don't think any of my regular garden haunts has one. In fact, I don't think I've found one in any garden I've visited on this blog, ever. More, please.

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We saw several fine specimens of Cotinus coggygria this weekend. In fact, Carri has one. I gotta say it stole the show in sun-drenched Sacramento this weekend. 

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I fell into a reverie taking close-up shots wherever we went.

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Also ruling Sacramento gardens right now: ROSES. Everywhere, in abundance. J'adore Rosa mutabilis, a workhorse in other parts of the country, I am told on blogs, but not that common here, in my view.

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Another delight, Phacelia tanacetifolia. I don't have this native wildflower in my garden this year, unfortunately. Well, I have some two other phacelias coming up, but not this one. I did not get my act together in time for spring wildflowers unfortunately. 

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A few kinds of poppies...

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And cerinthe in the mist.

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3 comments:

martha said...

Beautiful! That cerinthe looks much nicer in your photos than it does in my garden. Your view makes me like it more.

Dahlila said...

I love the rock garden, & I heard recently that the long-time volunteer gardener-extrordinaire is retiring & there will be no one to replace her. Dreadful rumor that they'll close it down or let it go. So awful! Such a peaceful place.
Lovely photos, thank you for sharing. d xo

Les said...

Thanks for posting the link. The botanical garden where I work is also a WPA garden.