Ready To Bloom...

Yankee Point Ceanothus (California Lilac) already blooming!

Daylight Savings Time us almost upon us, which means Spring is almost here. Though we hardly got any rain this winter, we've been constantly watering our new plants. The flowering blooms are an indicator that we're doing something right. 

This Ceanothus (California Lilac) is planted below the pepper tree in Area 2, prone to being stepped on, prone to water sliding down the slope of the ground. But today to our surprise there were already flowers blooming, where there weren't any just days ago!

Hummingbird Sage ready to flower any moment now.

Its neighbor, one of the newly-transplanted Hummingbird Sages is starting to produce its flower stalk. Soon, its magenta-colored flowers will start protruding.

The other plants that were transplanted last week seem to be doing well, none of them stepped-on or torn out. So far so good!

We're getting a new 5-cubic yard supply of mulch this Friday the 16th. The mulch will cover the bare spots of  areas 2 and 3, and in the north margin of the parking lot. We will have more than we need so anyone who wants free mulch, grab some after Saturday! We'll be Tweeting and Facebooking it too!

One of the three Oregon Grape Berberises (Berberi?) is starting to show some flower buds. Again, these plants look like they're doing rather well!

The front planters (Area 1) are coming along. A recent blog entry showed the first  Margarita BOP Penstemons starting to bloom, and this theme is continuing in 3 of the other planters as well. The fourth one, the easternmost one, is partially in the shade, but buds are starting to come out, so their time to bloom will eventually come.

Sorry, no strawberries to report this time! The last one was gone, hopefully a bird got to eat it!

Green Wizard Hats? No, just poppies ready to bloom!

The mature accidental poppy growth in front of one of the planters is showing four "wizard-hat"-shaped buds, and one of them has a faint yellow tint to it, which means it's going to bloom very, very soon! 

The newly-seeded poppies are still coming along. They're still a couple months from blooming. But hopefully we'll have a nice purple-and-gold display in our front planters (for you Lakers fans)!

There are two other mature poppies growing in the ground in Area 3, next to one of the Cleveland Sages and a newly-transplanted Hummingbird Sage. No "wizard hats" there just yet...

In all, things are coming up for our Library garden...Here's an overview of the front planters, you can see the purple starting to show!