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| Clarkia rubicunda - Ruby Chalice Clarkia (locally wild) |
Please join me in a pictorial wander through my garden. As you will see Clarkia rubicunda is the plant of the month! I'll gather seed this year - should get about a pound - and will restrain them next year - hoping to sprinkle those lovely blossoms throughout the garden and not let them overwhelm the pool garden, where the deer and the rabbits can't roam! But - I'm not complaining!
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| Let's relax a while with the monkeyflower draped over the chair |
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| The astonishing profusion of deer weed |
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| butterflies everywhere! |
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| On the coyote mint too... |
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| Lovely lovely |
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| What berries we're having this year on the manzanita! |
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| Huh! One lone California fuchsia blossom! A bit early there, mate! |
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| Did I mention Clarkia rubicunda? |
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| The clarkia does look lovely with the sage |
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| Winifred Gilman sage |
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| Bees and buzzing in the goldenrod |
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| Beds developing in the north garden. Rushes rocketing up wonderfully |
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| Is that a morel?? Dried up one? I found it while weeding. |
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| Oh the Matilija poppy! |
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| Wonderful misty mornings in June! |
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| Patio dining - with a bat tucked inside the shade umbrella! What a surprise! |
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| Time to harvest seeds - Aquilegia formosa - Western colombine.. |
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| And Fernald's iris |
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| Eriogonum rubicunda mixed in with clarkia |
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| Poppies, sunflowers - and clarkia |
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| Camissonia (yellow annual) popped up this year after long absence - under non-native sage. |
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| Toyon blooming abundantly |
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| Heartleaf penstemon doing its end-of-stem firework display - with Clarkia |
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| And lest we forget -- more Clarkia rubicunda!! |