Planted :

18 Pansy plants
12 Alyssum plants for pots

Added to potted 2 Garden Mum Bronze for that fall look.

Coreopsis "Grandiflora?)

Planted this morning
(did not do well, died off in spring)

Lantana Montevidensis

Planted today

new plants

Ilex me Blue Prince & Blue Princess

As see from above

Gopher Plant
or

               Euphorbia Rigida

Tree Removal

We had to have three trees removed, two Junipers and one Italian Cypress because of Pine Bark Beetles

After

Before.....

Planted May 2013:




dwarf mugo pine (Pinus mugo var.pumilio)

Planted recently:

 

 

 

 

Banks' Rose



Yellow Lady Banks Rose



Planted April 2003

Rosa Banksaie "Lutea"

New today

Added two Euonymus Japonica "Gold Spot"

Euonymus Japonica "Gold Spot"

Another view:

Blue Sage, Euonymus

As of Jun 2013 both plants have not grown much. There was a Palo Verde tree on the other side of the wall with an extensive root system. Our church neighbors were kind enough to cut it down. We'll see if that helps.



New addition

Italian Stone Pine
(Pino Pinonero)

This was a Christmas decoration in a pot.

Unfortunately it didn't survive very long (soil? Heat?)

Frost damage to Beavertail Cactus:

Most of the topheavy leaves broke off after 15 Degr frost 



Purple Prickly Pear Cactus



Beaver Tail Cactus

Sage & Cholla Cactus



Leuco Phyllum Zygophyllum Cimarron  (Blue Sage)

 Sage and Cactus planted today


 Cactus(Cane Cholla)
opuntia spinosior

New Purchases

3/2010  Damianita (Chrysadinia Mexicana), small yellow flowers
4/2010  Red Tip Photinia x Fraseri   (Home depot) Evergreen)
9/2010  Leucophyllum Zygophyllum Cimarron (Sage Bush)
9/2010  Cholla Cactus

Crape Myrtle and Grasses



Crape Myrtle


Crape Myrtle (planted in 1998)
(Lagerstroemia Indica)

Some don't really grow very big, we have four of different sizes






  

  

Fountain Grass


Pennisetum Setaceum Cupreum, planted in 2009

Grasses and Prickly Pears

Pennisetum Cupreum

From left:

Pennisetum Cupreum (Copper Fountain Grass)

and two fountain grass variety, and two in front.

(as of 2007)

All have since been replaced..

Purple Pricky Pear blooming (May 2005)

Purple Prickly Pear