to 20 Bishop of Llandaff dahlia bulbs. I don't know where I'm going to put them either but it's too much to pass up. I've been hallucinating a new design for the front yard that will include a spot for a baby California buckeye tree I've just started from seed and why not a spate of garnet red dahlias while I'm at it. It only involves digging up lawn and crunching up some adobe into something resembling soil. Oh, and I forgot digging up the dahlias every year and processing them....not likely to happen.
activity report...
The evergreen clematis is blooming! Even before the plum trees pop. And a few jonquils are opening though most get eaten by slugs if I don't immediately cut them. But the major show is the manzanita and ceanothus in the front yard. The manzanita looks like it belongs on a wedding cake--tiny sugary pink-white clusters cover the four-foot shrub. The California lilac is now tree-height and in another couple of days the closed buds, now pinkish lavender, will open up in electric blue. The bees are already having a party.