Saturday, April 4, 2009

Plants I'm growing: First Blooms--Halimiocistus and Wisteria




First blooms today on Halimiocistus and on the Wisteria over the hammock (the most important of  all garden tools). A few Wisteria buds were open yesterday or even the day before, but today the purple of the flowers is more evident (top photo). Ours is in its seventh year or so now. We grew it from a seed collected from a striking deep pink Wisteria we saw at Imari (of pottery fame), in Japan, but the seed doesn't have the pink of its parent. A second one on the other side of the arbor hasn't bloomed yet, so it's still not clear what color it will be. I hope it will be more like the pink one that dazzled us in Japan. Unfortunately, I've lost track of the species and variety names of the Halimiocistus (middle photo). First blooms today also on the "Point Sal Spreader" Salvia by the front of the house (Salvia leucophylla).

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