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.
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.
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.
I fell into a reverie taking close-up shots wherever we went.
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.
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.
A few kinds of poppies...
And cerinthe in the mist.
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.
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.
I fell into a reverie taking close-up shots wherever we went.
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.
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.
A few kinds of poppies...
And cerinthe in the mist.
Beautiful! That cerinthe looks much nicer in your photos than it does in my garden. Your view makes me like it more.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteLovely photos, thank you for sharing. d xo
Thanks for posting the link. The botanical garden where I work is also a WPA garden.
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