More Spring Color

Here's another quick yard update.

Our bouganviella in the corner of the yard that was killed back to the ground two winters ago, has made a complete comeback. To the right is part of the chinese pistache, now leafing out nicely.

We have golden fleece coming up all over the back yard, and even the front yard near the sidewalk. I haven't planted these in over three years now, but every spring, depending on how wet the winter is, they reseed in various places. This past spring I only had one plant come up in an Aloe pot (the blue one pictured above), and apparently it either multiplied something fierce through seeds blowing around the yard, or there were other seeds that laid dormant for a year until a good winter season brought them up.

I'm a glutton for punishment and bought this 1 gallon azalea, for the heck of it. Chances are it'll be dead by June, but it looks nice now, and is happy sitting in the shade most of the day on the back porch. Home Depot is notorious for selling plants out here in the spring that aren't native, like Magnolia trees and wisteria, but I figured putting this guy in a pot I may be able to control it's environment and limp it through until the monsoons.

Besides the golden fleece, here's another plant that keeps coming up periodically from one spring to the next, even though I haven't planted it in years, the primrose. For two years this plant was completely absent and I thought it had died during the summer, when it typically goes dormant. Then last year it came up, and this year, with the winter rain, it has spread across a 15 square foot area on the south side of the yard, and is now covered in these beautiful blooms.

I posted a picture of this red columbine a few days ago, but it was blurry. Here's a better look at it.