{"id":91586,"date":"2019-07-10T15:03:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T19:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=91586"},"modified":"2019-08-26T13:06:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T17:06:55","slug":"sharing-the-view-driveby-gardens-with-kangaroo-paws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=91586","title":{"rendered":"sharing the view; driveby gardens with kangaroo paws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Okay, I admit I’m chasing the goal of 10,000 steps a day. Chasing it all over my hometown. And it’s amazing how familiar streets by car can turn up all sorts of unfamiliar scenes by foot. So this is technically a walkby, not a driveby, or possibly a hybrid of the two — I might have initially caught that searing blur of kangaroo paws when doing errands by car then went back to investigate on foot. My old standby, a form of pale yellow Anigozanthos flavidus, is blooming as strong as ever in my garden, but the rusty oranges and egg-yolk yellow forms have died out as the back garden grows shadier. This is one of the strongest, most vibrant displays I’ve seen locally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See that snippet of low white picket fence? That’s a clue to how this front garden accomplishes depth and scope beyond its actual footprint — because whether by design or serendipity, it’s borrowing the view from the front garden next-door that belongs to that grey, black-trimmed house with the enviable casement windows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From this view, the garden is luxuriously deep, building up mounding textures and spikes, backed by tall kangaroo paws and leonotis blooming like solar flares against that cool blue haze of a sprawling eucalyptus — a borrowed but nonetheless spectacular backdrop. In actuality, the gum tree takes up most of that neighbor’s front garden, as seen below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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limbed up to show that warm red trunk as is often done with manzanitas — this is what can happen when you whole-heartedly commit to a tree. You work around it. I should know. Half of my own front garden is taken up by a similarly sprawling Acacia podalyrifolia where agaves and succulents used to grow. And then there’s the issue of my back garden becoming too shady for kangaroo paws…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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what first appeared from the car to be a cut-leaf acacia, it’s more likely a eucalyptus sporting juvenile growth from extensive pruning. (Might be Eucalyptus pulverulenta<\/em>.) The kangaroo paws and leonotis bloom in both gardens. Cooperation or competition? Just another example of how plantings often go viral in a neighborhood.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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both houses really know how to cover the ground, keeping shapes in scale.
Little blue flowers from Convolvulus sabatius, the Ground Morning Glory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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back to the shared view — salvias, lantana, golden coleonema, kangaroo paws, leonotis and agavesque yuccas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Two gardens, two houses, but I only took photos of this house because I love how it sits in the landscape, snugged into the view from the neighbor’s garden. (And privacy reasons too — the owner of the house belonging to the foreground garden was puttering outside.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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