Photography

Wildflower Garden Walk

Apr 21, 2022,15:44 PM

Mrs C and I took a walk on this early sunny morning and the flowers were tripping all over themselves to get into our photos. Please come along with us.

Oops! Forgot her watch! Shame on Mrs. C.

Below is Prunis ilicifolia "Hollyleaf Cherry"

Below is Cylindropuntia prolifera aka "Coastal Cholla" which is a very nasty plant to stumble into, I can tell you from painful personal experience years ago.

Your guess?

The answer.

We walked here before, about 18 months ago. You can see that walk too if you want to compare the flowers in a different season. NATIVE PLANT GARDEN NOV 2020

New life springs from the old and tired

Penstemon parryi or "Desert Penstemon"

It literally seemed that each plant was trying to out-do the others. And in a way, I guess they were, but their target was bees, not us.

This flower wins the bee popularity contest! This Datura wrightii or "Sacred Datura" is poisonous and has some hallucinogenic properties if it doesn't kill you...

Sambucus "Elderberry"

The size of these leaves was incredible! Platanus or "Plane Tree"

This is an Iris which I didn't think was a wild native but maybe it snuck in here (though the caretakers are quite zealous about uprooting non-natives). Iris spuria

Bird loudly singing drew our eyes to the waning moon

Bees were everywhere on the Ceanothus aboreus or "Island ceanothus"

Well, ok, we saw no bees on the Oak Path

Glandularia or "Dakota mock vervain"

The flowers have no respect for man-made structures.

Every color, shape, size and configuration vying for our eye

These are California Golden Poppies, the state flower. Botanists say Eschscholzia californica, but that's too difficult!

I love taking photos of flowers in the early morning light