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Castro Valley, near Oakland, CA; approx 37.7N by 122W, 400 feet elevation.
This is part of my ongoing project to document the changes in our yard from month to month.
April 2018 is here:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/30/1760838/-The-Daily-Bucket-April-2018-Yard-Report
March 2018 is here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/24/1751308/-The-Daily-Bucket-March-2018-Yard-Report
February 2018 is here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/3/2/1745924/-The-Daily-Bucket-February-2018-Yard-Report
January 2018 is here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/31/1737413/-The-Daily-Bucket-January-2018-Yard-Report
December 2017 is here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/19/1725283/-The-Daily-Bucket-December-2017-Yard-Report
As of MAY 2018
The first few are as of May 1 to capture a few things before we went off on one of our adventures. They are particular flowers that it seemed best to capture that day.
The bulk of the photos are the basic yard report, as of May 6, 2018
south from the back door
ditto
rear roses are nearly done
santa barbara daisies
pineapple sage and california fuschia almost bloom free
remaining iris
oranges, of course
ribes bloomed out and out of control
milkweeds and amaryllis
better amaryllis, but wai til later
hanging onions
grape leaves
tiny grape clusters
ditto
milkweed and irises west of grapes
bunchgrass, sage behind, then callas.
callas and pineapple sage
orange blossoms
strawberry guava
apricot
perpetual spinach chard, very recently sprouted
regrown leeks, now forming seed heads
regrown celery
another with more regrown green onions
fern, rhododendron and camillia
lemon tree
rhubarb, thyme and tomato
parsley going to seed, tomato, thyme, another rhubarb and onions going to seed (now picked)
onions and overwintered painbow chard
epazote and chard
front bed, kale pruned below leaves, one earl last month others late last month
strawbs, both fruit and flowers
irises
iskand mallow (we cannot keep this pruned)
rear bed, portuguese kale down side, 2 dinosaur kale in back
gerbera daisies
pear tree with pears
pears
apple tree nearly bloomed out
sample of remaining apple blossoms
poppies, garlic chives, false cypress
irises under redbud plus sage and succulents
sages, salvia clevelandia in front, culinary behind
sticky monkey flower
mexican sage,alyssium, bunchgrass, poppies, geranium
another salvia, succulent nearly bloomed out
succulent, ceanothus, iris behind
escalonia fradesii
iris and yellow rose
fuschia
volunteer rose of some sort
These are the amaryllis 10 days later, as of 5/16
and grapes, still tiny
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