The Blue Wave

So to distract you from the fact that I haven’t been keeping up on the weeding, and even my nicer beds are looking a little shabby, I’m going to post a couple pix of one of my favorite garden features. Along the top of a stone wall, several wild lilacs (ceanothus) bloom in May. I keep thinking I should prune them back, but they’re such an impressive site, I always talk myself out of it.

Here’s the big show…

To get a sense of the scale, that’s my house in the upper right corner.

And here’s a close-up of the flower clusters. The whole thing just throbs with bees when it’s in bloom…

And here’s a gratuitous shot of a Mr. Lincoln rose. I sorta forgot about him, until he smacked me on the arm on the way up the front steps the other day. Isn’t the deep red color gorgeous? Hopefully this week I’ll get out there and weed a little, and then next week I’ll show off all my good work.

Or something.

Liv