After posting on Nasher Sculpture Center’s Sculpture garden–very much a rarefied 1%er’s kind of garden–it’s really comforting to return to the garden I call home. It’s April 15 in this 99%er’s garden, and time for this months Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day meme, hosted of Carol at May Dreams Gardens.
Every time I do one of these posts I worry that I’m showing you the same things. But since I stare at these plants for hours on end I hope you don’t mind the repeat appearances of some of the things that are still blooming. But in addition to the forever bloomers there are a lot of new things starting up this month.
![Raised garden detail](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Raised-garden-detail-300x200.jpg)
Here’s an overview of the irrigated raised bed. There’s a native coyote bush in the back that I raised from seed, and it seems fine with this somewhat moist location. In front of it are some blooming exotics: a potted Euphorbia lambii with its chartreuse flowers, an Arctotis hybrid “Big Magenta” in the lower left, Salvia microphylla ‘Hot Lips’ to the right and a honey bush (Melianthus major) in the background, right, with its dark red bracts.
![Euphorbia lambii](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Euphorbia-lambii-300x200.jpg)
Euphorbia lambii detail.
There’s a lot from California (or very nearby) in bloom:
![Verbena lilacina](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Verbena-lilacina-200x300.jpg)
Verbena lilacina (from nearby in Mexico)
![Sisyrinchium bellum](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Sisyrinchium-bellum-300x200.jpg)
Blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium bellum) livening up the edges of the veggie plantings.
![Salvia mellifera](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Salvia-mellifera-200x300.jpg)
Some of the last flowers on the black sage, Salvia mellifera.
![Salvia clevelandii Winnifred Gilman](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Salvia-clevelandii-Winnifred-Gilman-200x300.jpg)
![Salvia clevelandii Winnifred Gilman 3](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Salvia-clevelandii-Winnifred-Gilman-3-200x300.jpg)
![Salvia clevelandii Winnifred Gilman 2](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Salvia-clevelandii-Winnifred-Gilman-2-200x300.jpg)
Takes 1-3 of Salvia clevelandii ‘Winnifred Gilman.”
![Red monkeyflower](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Red-monkeyflower-300x200.jpg)
A red monkeyflower seedling from a cultivar that died a couple of years ago.
![Lupinus hirsutissimus](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Lupinus-hirsutissimus-200x300.jpg)
The local stinging lupine, Lupinus hirsutissimus.
![Leptosyne maritima](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Leptosyne-maritima-200x300.jpg)
The local coastal sea daisy, previously called a coreopsis, I’m trying to get used to its new name, Leptosyne maritima.
![Leptosyne gigantea](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Leptosyne-gigantea-200x300.jpg)
Another ex-coreopsis, Leptosyne gigantea.
![Isomeris arborea](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Isomeris-arborea-300x200.jpg)
The local bladderpod, Isomeris arborea, with one of its bladder-like seedpods to the right.
![Heuchera maxima](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Heuchera-maxima-200x300.jpg)
Island alum root doesn’t so incredibly well for me. I suspect that I’m not watering it enough to make it bloom like mad like I’ve seen it do locally.
![Fremontodendron mexicanum](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Fremontodendron-mexicanum-200x300.jpg)
A fremontia that we have in East County, Fremontodendron mexicanum. It’s a plant that’s been imprisoned in a gallon pot from a plant sale last fall, waiting until I figure out where to put a really big plant.
![Eriogonum giganteum in bud](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Eriogonum-giganteum-in-bud-200x300.jpg)
The giant island buckwheat (Eriogonum giganteum) in bud. Last year the gophers got to it. I thought it was doomed. Looks like it’s pulling through.
![Eriogonum arborescens](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Eriogonum-arborescens-300x200.jpg)
San Miguel Island buckwheat (Eriogonum arborescens).
![Dudleya saxosa ssp aloides](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Dudleya-saxosa-ssp-aloides-200x300.jpg)
A succulent dudleya that you find out in the eastern parts of the county, Dudleya saxosa ssp. aloides.
![Carpenteria californica](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Carpenteria-californica-300x200.jpg)
Carpenteria california, in bloom since December.
![California poppy](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/California-poppy-200x300.jpg)
The California poppies started up last month. They’re close to peaking.
![Adenostoma fasciculatum](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Adenostoma-fasciculatum-300x200.jpg)
This plant, a spreading form of chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum) known as ‘Nicholas.”
And from other places we have:
![Verbena bonariensis](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Verbena-bonariensis-300x200.jpg)
Verbena bonariensis.
![Unknown aloe or aloe hybrid](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Unknown-aloe-or-aloe-hybrid-300x200.jpg)
An unknown red aloe or aloe hybrid.
![Santolina chamaecyparissus](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Santolina-chamaecyparissus-300x200.jpg)
![Santolina chamaecyparissus 3](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Santolina-chamaecyparissus-3-300x200.jpg)
![Santolina chamaecyparissus 2](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Santolina-chamaecyparissus-2-200x300.jpg)
Three takes on santolina, S. chamaecyparissus, more in bloom than last month.
![Rose geranium](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Rose-geranium-300x200.jpg)
The rose geranium in the herb garden is a total monster. Pretty in lavender-pink, though. And it’s pretty easy to pull up.
![Protea Pink Ice](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Protea-Pink-Ice-200x300.jpg)
Yah, yah, yah, this protea all over again…
![Oenothera mexicana](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Oenothera-mexicana-200x300.jpg)
You’re witness to the final moments of this Mexican evening primrose. It’s a noxious weed in the garden, and I pulled it up five seconds after I put down the camera.
![Nile asleep in the window](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Nile-asleep-in-the-window-200x300.jpg)
Nile, oblivious to all my weeding and survey work in the garden.
![Homeria collina](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Homeria-collina-300x200.jpg)
Another weedy plant, Homeria collina. Not nearly as bad as the previous one, so it usually gets to live and reproduce in my garden unless it comes up in a seriously bad spot.
![Fortnight iris](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Fortnight-iris-300x200.jpg)
Fortnight iris, Dietes iridioides. Another pretty but really weedy plant. It’s still coming up from seed left by plants a decade ago. This is a flower on the one plant that gets to live.
![Graptopetalum with flowers 2](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Graptopetalum-with-flowers-2-300x200.jpg)
![Graptopetalum with flowers](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Graptopetalum-with-flowers-300x200.jpg)
A couple of takes on blooming graptopetalums.
![Crassula argentea](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Crassula-argentea-200x300.jpg)
Silver jade, Crassula argentea, just coming into bloom.
![Upper bog with blooming sarracenia](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Upper-bog-with-blooming-sarracenia-200x300.jpg)
But of the exotics, the most splashy right now are the American pitcher plants, the sarracenia. These carnivorous plants have leaves modified into the bug-catching tubes that are often mistaken for flowers. But you’ll see the floppy mop-top flowers that these guys produce.
![Sarracenia alata with flowers](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Sarracenia-alata-with-flowers-200x300.jpg)
S. alata and flowers.
![Sarracenia Leah Wilkerson](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Sarracenia-Leah-Wilkerson-200x300.jpg)
A natural hybrid, S. ‘Leah Wilkerson,” flowers and new pitcher.
![Sarracenia flava x oreophila](https://lostinthelandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Sarracenia-flava-x-oreophila-200x300.jpg)
A hybrid of S. flava by S. oreophila. The pitchers are just opening, and will turn a much more intense combination of red and yellow.
Happy Bloomday, every’all. For more gardens check out Carol’s April 2012 Bloomday post [ right here ].