{"id":100996,"date":"2022-06-14T13:08:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T17:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=100996"},"modified":"2022-06-14T13:08:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T17:08:21","slug":"walking-the-neighborhood-6-12-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=100996","title":{"rendered":"walking the neighborhood 6\/12\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It seems at least every house has a specimen rhododendron…or two. Japanese maples and Pieris japonica abound as well. And since the rhodies are just about bloomed out, I grabbed a few photos before the party is over and reduced to petal confetti on the lawn. For weather junkies like gardeners and dog walkers, dry walks are possible by checking the hourly forecasts. It’s a rare day that rains all day long. And it’s a very long<\/em> day — twilight hits around 9 p.m.! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lots of horticultural classics like peonies, iris, and lupins are having a moment too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The blue-flowered shrubby ground cover is another plant with ubiquitous status: Lithodora diffusa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Evergreen Lithodora diffusa is a ground cover of choice in the neighborhood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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With Lysimachia nummularia and some ancient CMU I’ve been coveting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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there’s always a few sempervivums tucked into rock retaining walls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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conifers with Japanese Maple — I’m researching a few dwarf conifers for the front garden, partly inspired by Sara Malone’s garden<\/a> in Petaluma, California.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The vigor of cut-leaf sumac Rhus typhina seems even more alarming than tetrapanax. (Note the baby sumacs lining the walkway — yikes!) And it’s late to leaf out and early to bed in fall, so I’ll probably say no, but I did seriously consider it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Corylopsis? Laburnum? I often have no idea what I’m looking at.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Anchusa? The leaves appeared very early in spring when much else was still dormant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It might look like forget-me-nots, but it’s a big, coarse plant with rough leaves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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You might not be able to ripen a tomato, but artichokes flourish here<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Even with all the rain, the fields are still being worked<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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lupins seem to love the heavy soil and cool, wet spring<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The rain does take a toll on the posture of the Oriental poppies — flopsville!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Papaver somniferum escaping under the fence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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peonies!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Iris sibirica?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Maybe a biennial like hesperis? And there’s a clematis camouflaged near the porch of similar color<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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unmistakably acanthus! Note the trachycarpus palm down the street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Acanthus mollis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Linaria purpurea is a miserable thing in my zone 10 garden, whereas here it verges on weedy status<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And lucky you, for this photo walk, no need for mudboots!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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