New Developments in Landscaping

Yesterday, I brought up some trees my father has been preparing for me and planted them today, along with one I picked up myself.

My father gave me a fig tree


and a pomegranate


both of which I planted on the east side of the back yard, where they should get full sun. It's my hope that as the fig tree grows, it will provide shade for the back porch.

In addition, I finally planted a Meyer lemon (standard). I put it just off center (I hit the sprinkler line on my first try, so moved it a little west).


And here are all three trees:




I'm a little worried planting the lemon tree so close to the garage. Not that it will damage it but that the tree will be shaded by it in the afternoons. It still had sun, though, at 3 pm, so that's a good sign.

I've also planted my tomatoes for this year and I have high hopes:


This morning, I noticed someone had broken part of the protective fence, just snapped one of the posts in two.


I replaced it this afternoon.

Meanwhile, the royal penstemon has started to bloom:


And the desert willow is showing more signs of life, with leaf buds most of the way up all the branches. The ones at the base are the best developed though.


So far, only one of the lupines has survived long enough to bloom:


The clarkia is just beginning to bloom, but nothing that would photograph well yet. Meanwhile, the sulfur buckwheat looks really nice


And the I was surprised to see the California fuschia is beginning to bloom, since I thought it did that mostly in summer. But this patch gets a lot of hot sun, so maybe it was a little confused: