For this FOTD post, self decided to show two pictures: one of the first sweetpea sprouts, 26 August, and the sprouts today. There’s been growth!
This is pretty exciting. She’s never succeeded at growing things from seed. This year, she decided to try sweetpeas and jalapeño peppers. She’s growing all of them in containers, and scattered them around her porch.
She had the sweetpeas in three different pots. Only one sprouted. She figured it must be the location. So she moved her other pots over, next to the one with the sweetpea sprouts. Fingers crossed!
Self planted this right next to her Fourth of July rose (and forgot what it’s called). After the Fourth of July stops blooming, early summer, this vine starts blooming. It’s a very homely flower, but it’s the only thing (other than the Agapanthus) blooming in her backyard right now.
Oh, self had fun this morning, searching through her garden for any red blooms. There were a few choices, but the ones that photographed best were geraniums. In her archives, there was this sweet little mini-Cooper parked in front of Horn Barbecue in Oakland.
Self is throwing in a Calder from last spring’s Calder/Picasso at the de Young Museum.
Thanks so much to Life in Colour for hosting this challenge.
She just completed a road trip to the Central Coast. She loves doing road trips because it’s a break from the unrelenting heat in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Robin’s, 4095 Burton Drive, Cambria: Each Table Top is a unique patchwork of tiles. Mine had a plane.
Cambria Nursery, 2801 Eaton Road, Cambria
Fence as Art: Cambria Nursery, 2801 Eaton Road, Cambria
Self is pretty sure she’s already used agapanthus for Cee’s FOTD, as soon as they started blooming. Now, her backyard’s looking a bit parched, most of the blooms are blown, except for one. She tried photographing from different angles: back and front. In the end, she liked her first shot the best, because you can really see the silky-looking texture of the blue petals.
The nursery is just off the main road to Cambria. Self visited for the first time a few days ago. Highly recommend to anyone who’s in that neck of the woods. The nursery is large! And filled with plants of every type.
Decided to make this, rather than a specific flower, the Flower of the Day, Aug. 20.
As always, thank you to Cee Neuner for hosting the FOTD challenge.
Cambria Plant Nursery, 2801 Eton Road, Cambria, CA
