This whole idea of doing Tumblr Tuesday posts is proving inconsistent with me lately. Besides my love for alliteration, the concept was to have an easy opportunity for a “frilly” midweek post by pulling together the week’s pictures from my boZannical Tumblr photoblog, but it seems like pretty much every weekday morning has been consumed by homework this semester.
So, I’ve been building up a mass of pix on the Tumblr and need to just pull some shots together whenever I can get to it. Take today, for example. 🙂 Click a pic and scroll on through!
Crisp white poppies…
Detail of the crepe-papery petals of rockrose.
Blue is such a phenomenal background for plants!
Pollen on a CA poppy.
Botanical chalk drawings on the steps at Douglass and 20th.
Beautiful peachy-orange abutilon flowers.
Fuchsia boliviana at the Seward slides.
Supremely happy bees on a ceanothus.
Budding-out Japanese maples!
Vivid!
An offering?
Branches and shadows on Belgrave.
My Easter arrangement for Ikebana. So pleased with it! Chartreuse from Leucadendron ‘Safari Goldstrike’ and hopseed, countered with the dark pink-purple of the isopogon.
In Golden Gate Park at the newly refurbished southern windmill.
I love the color combo of the wisteria and the birds-of-paradise.
Beautiful Wisteria on Liberty St.
Fringe flowers of Loropetalum.
Corwin Mini Park’s fallen agave flower spikes being used for garden bed borders.
Irises at Kite Hill
Camellia fallen on aeonium looks deceptively like it grew there. 🙂
Phallic flowers of the Philodendron selloum.
Fascinating how the new leaves unfurl, fully formed, on a Philodendron selloum.
Cyneraria and cymballaria living epiphytically on a Canary Island palm.
Leucadendron ‘Jester’
Cunninghamia lanceolata glauca at Flora Grubb Gardens.
My neighbor’s Acacia baileyana atropurpurea.
Leucadendron ‘Jester’ and CA buckeye make a vivid duo.
Budding ceanothus…
Red hebe at Kite Hill.
Hollyhocks on Corwin.
Vivid yellow of a daisy bush.
Euphorbia and Montbresia.
Aeonium flowers against a blue background. Mmm!
Ikebana lesson “Variation #8, Nageire and Nageire,) with echium and flannel bush.
The unfurling flowers of echium.
Phenomenal papery bark of melaleuca.
Isopogon
Clematis flowers in the Sutro Forest client’s garden.
Another colorful succulent patch on Castro.
Colorful succulents on Castro.
Magnolia blossom.
Flowering aeonium.
Leucospermum flowers.
Magnolia in front of a house that used to be a fire station.
Milky sap from a euphorbia.
Tribble garden of blue fescues.
Balled-and-burlapped Japanese maples at Flora Grubb Gardens.
At the sewage treatment plant behind Flora Grubb Gardens.
Ikebana lesson called “Variation #8, Nageire and Moribana.” Pink kangaroo paw with Melaleuca incana.
Sutro Tower through the echium spikes at Kite Hill
Winter color on Japanese boxwood
Garrya elliptica
Ivy strangling the trees at Sutro Tower
Epiphytic ferns on Yerba Buena Island
Succulent mosaic in the beds lining my neighbor’s steps
Cute little potting I did at Flora Grubb gardens, using a crassula and some “baseball euphorbia”
Lantana on Romaine St
Beautiful hebe at Kite Hill
Salvia ‘Hot Lips’
Moss-filled letter on the street…
Dispite the difficulties the photos are beautiful, and amazing. Thank you.
Thank YOU!
Amazing! Beautiful! Awesome! Do plants bloom in California like that all year around? Come on down to Texas and I’ll show you some mesquite trees that haven’t bloomed yet. The Cedar Elm and the Red Oaks have put out, but that’s about all. The Live Oaks are busily pushing off last year’s old gray-green leaves in order to put out new dark waxy-green spring leaves. The drought has just about done us in down here. To many years of dry weather and wildfire. Most cities are on Station Three water rationing. I called my cousin in Houston this morning and he was watering his lawn! Can you imagine watering anything in Houston? Good work, I loved it! So some more. Larry
Thanks SO much, Larry! It’s pretty amazing here with the blooming. We really do have something in bloom every week of the year. Especially here in San Francisco where the water keeps the temperatures moderated at 55-80 all year round. These pix are all from the past six to eight weeks or so!
I’ve been reading about the drought down in TX for a while now. Just devastating, I imagine. Thinks are definitely “out of whack” here (we were above normal rainfall before the new year, but haven’t had anything measurable since then and are now below average), but they’re not calling it dire yet, by any means. Down there you’ve been dealing with it for a few years now, right? We’ll be in water rationing next year if there’s no change by Fall. We usually get some rain in April, then not again til October (historically, anyway.) We’ll see.
Do you garden? You seem aware of the usual plant cycles in your area. What neck of the woods are you in? I have friends around Austin, and a few in Richardson area and down Corpus way. Never been there, though.
Thanks again, and I’ll definitely keep it up!
Missing my spring trip to SF this year so thanks for the photos and plant names. I am looking at a white and gray landscape
now here in Maine.
Too bad to hear you won’t make it, Karen. 😦 Glad I could help brighten a white-and-gray day! I hear Maine is beautiful in the warm months. I’d love to go there sometime, myself. I’m glad for our mellow weather out here for sure, tho…
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