Flowers

Every gardener deserves a space for flowers.  They bring pollinators and beauty of the garden. Orange, red purple and pink are the colors of the day.

Amazing roses at the entrance

Traditional orange marigolds

More Roses

Cosmos are know as Jirasoles

Stunning roses tucked in the back corner

Love these gladiolas

The beauty of the garden

Summertime at the BFG

Summer Flowers

Purple girasol

Magenta girasol

girasoles

blue flower

chamomile

gourd flower

squash flower

Marigold sprouts

Red Rose

Gladiola

Flowers

Los Colores

This week the first sunflower bloomed, and the gladiolas entered peak season in the Beach Flats Garden.  Tomatoes and tomatillos opened their first flowers in the heat of the sun, awaiting winged pollinators that give the plant a reason to grow fruit.  Nasturtiums were joined by poppies in low places of the sandy beach soil.  All around the songs of birds could be heard, serenading the garden with the songs of summer.

Gladiola

Gladiolas are a perennial flower that grow from a bulb.  They come in single and multicolored varieties, blooming in may and producing until mid summer.  In the beach flats garden, gladiolas line the walkways, interspersed with annuals like marigolds (cempasuchil) and cosmos (girasoles).  A few narcissus bulbs are mixed in providing an early blooming companion to the leggy gladiolas.  Any trip to the garden is sure to include Domingo telling the colors of the gladiolas he has.  “Morado, rojo, rosado, amarillo, blanco” he says, smiling as he thinks of the beautiful colored stalks.  Gladiolas were a favorite plant of my grandmother, Anita.  I remember them in her garden alongside zucchini and tomatoes.  A favorite of gardeners old and young, gladiolas are a must have in any garden.