Cenizo or Leucophyllum frutescans is sometimes called "barometer bush" because gardening legend says it will predict rain, but there is no rain expected here in the foreseeable future. So in my garden these blooms tell me we had a rain shower two weeks ago this Tuesday. It typically takes about an hour of soaking rain to push them into bloom and I've been eagerly watching for the blooms since then.
These flowers are worth the wait.
It will sometimes bloom in the fall when low clouds gather daily. Either way I'd say it's a pretty sage-y plant.
That's the news from my garden this week. Tomorrow I'll take a look back at the driveway landscaping project and the progress made over the past year.
Yowza! I saw a bunch around here...clipped into &#*@! cubes, but with all this coolish, "humid" weather, they are flowering anyway. They are like late barometers, as you note flowering after real rain.
ReplyDeleteIt's awful isn't it? The natural form is so pretty there seems to be no reason for it.
DeleteBeautiful sage blooms & that agave...sigh.
ReplyDeleteYes, that agave is doing quite well there.
DeleteVery nice color! I've never seen such pretty flowers, Shirley!
ReplyDeleteI've seen some very pretty flowers on your blog Nadezda.
DeleteIf your neighbors go to cruise to Saint Petersburg, they will be able to meet me!
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That is so very nice of you Nadezda. I will see if I can contact them.
DeleteYour Silverado Sage looks magnificent. What a lovely colour.
ReplyDeleteI didn't mind the gratuitous Agave shot. It really does look terrific with the purple, yellow and crimson behind it.
It's fun to throw in something like that once in a while!
DeleteThey look outstanding! As you saw in one of mine, my three are so much more showy than last year.Bees love them.
ReplyDeleteThe bees love them so much that they literally fall to the ground inside the flower, it's a lot of fun to watch.
DeleteThanks for the beautiful photos of your cenizo! It's funny how I don't notice that plant around town until it blooms and all of a sudden it's bursting into color. I always think back to when it last rained too!
ReplyDeleteThey are often in neglected or easy to ignore rows along parking lots and it is the blooms which are amazing.
DeleteI am enjoying the blooms here too...and around the area. It sure becomes apparent who shears their plants and who doesn't.....or prunes them too late into spring. Yours look wonderful and it must be a delight pulling your car into the garage and seeing all that color!
ReplyDeleteIt is quite a welcome home. The shearing of flowering shrubs is such a strange and awful practice.
DeleteEven we could use a bit of restorative rain. It sure is doing wonderful things for you!
ReplyDeleteIt's very special to have that kind of rain in the summer and we never complain about it.
DeleteOurs are finally blooming. It seems all the other ones in the neighborhood bloom WAY before ours....and, more often.
ReplyDeleteThey are stunning. And, the 'perfume' is really nice.
That is a beautiful sage, such a prolific bloomer!
ReplyDeleteLoving the colorful sage too from this garden!!
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