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That’s a nice type of bamboo that seems to stay altogether. Some types spread like couch grass!

Last i saw they were just fronds no trunk. Somethings grow faster in SF than in the rest of the bay. Never a frost or lows in the 30's. Always 40f above.

I left it in the greenhouse where i worked because i was sure it would die if i put it outdoors then years later i saw photos of it thriving outdoors in SoCal gardens.

About 6 years Klahanie...the birds love it.It seems to like constant sunlight!Not that there is much here..it is growing in a west facing position

Lovely spot and ducks too.

Ads colour in winter setting. I am not a grass fan but I do like some and this is one of them. Yours looks quite mature Julia. How long do you have it? I was not successful growing it .

Gorgeous.

Have had a lovely few hours in the sunshine too although was quite cold when talking to neighbour 😄 but got warmer, some shrubs and tree to cut back, hope you feel better soon ;-)

Its all looking so good Karen great choice of planting as ever. We have had quite a bit of damage over the last couple of months due to the high winds taking off the corner ridge tiles on the house, all back in good repair now thank goodness. I`m hoping that I shall be able to do a little pottering round the garden come the better weather and shall peep in now and again to see how you are all doing.

Karen, if it was Spiders I wouldn't be able to do a thing, can't bear them! In the log pile we've had for years there is a massive web going from one end to the other so I dread to think how many are in there ... :o(

Yes, sunshine here today and it was wonderful! Thank you all for your good wishes. I’ve now go a stinker of a head cold. All these ‘blessings’are courtesy of the nursery where my Grandaughter goes every week and brings home a new delight for us! Eugh!

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I’m too squeamish!

Planting depth is as important as temperature. The top of the bud should be no more than 1 inch below soil level. In fact it can be above the soil.

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Thanks all for looking in and leaving your comments ... I appreciate it very much ... :o))

Good idea ... :o)

Thanks David, I rarely shop in supermarkets other than my regular one but a friend told me about these ... :o)

Thanks both, shame they're not in my own garden!

That accounts for the rapid growth.

Julia, I have never the stems like this before. There is water between them and the low railing.

Oh those hateful things. When I lift off the lid of my Dalek compost bin they're are often tiny slugs in the lid. They soon get 'bashed' into the garden waste bin, she said, smiling evilly!

It would have been rude not to !!

He actually knew the one I meant, even with his colour blindness!

Thanks Shirley..I find myself leaning towards structural plants in the garden.

I think I've got you! What was his reply?? This Pittisporum is one of my favourites.

This is beautiful. We have just got in from shopping and I asked Michael if he liked the 'purply' Hebe 'Silver Anniversary' growing in our garden as I would like more evergreens in shades of, well, not green!!

Nice to be able to do a bit in the garden I'm hoping to do some today, I've done the odd little job here and there and better weather here today :-))

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A lovely stroll with you Shirley around a garden I have never been to before. It looks really well maintained with some lovely plants and areas. I love the bark on that Cherry Tree. Thank you for being our guide.

Lovely! I think those little Narcissi are my favourites from your blog. Sunshine in a flower :)

Well, I have 9 bare roots and I’ll pot them up today, and hopefully they will be ready to plant out in May. We’ll see. I don’t usually buy plants bare-rooted. But they were available so….

It absolutely lashed us with rain all day yesterday Shirley. Dry this morning and a lot of little slugs everywhere.

A very interesting garden Shirley..thank you for showing us.Good to see admission is free.!

Agree with Klahanie.

Very impressive!

Very beautiful flower, it looks like an orchid.

Yes, avocado trees become very large and very wide, depending on variety.

Avocado trees fruit all year, depending on the variety. This is why we’re the avocado capital growing area in the US.

Yes, and it’s extremely expensive to move such a large palm.

Oh, I don’t know if there’s double flowers available here, either.

Yes, it was ☹️

For over twenty years they didn’t have a trunk, then around 1998 they started developing trunk and took off growing pretty fast. It still takes about 150 plus years to develop a trunk about 200 ft.

Stan,

This is a USDA zone 9a plant, according to what I’ve read. It would easily grow where you live.

I bought one at the Berkeley botanical garden. Long story short,I left it behind thinking it was too tropical for outdoors. At least i should have tried a cutting. Live and learn I guess.

They are big trees so I understand why you are pulling them out Delonix. Are you just dumping them?
I love avocados. When are they fruiting around San Diego?
We picked them up from the ground around the Christmas time in Mexico ....competing with Mexican stray (street) dogs...they loved them too :-).

I've seen them a couple of times and with no trunk and what looked to me like not enough watering,they were sort of ugly!
That has really changed and they are the most exotic looking palm we can grow in the bay area. The ugly duckling became a swan.

I think they look cute together. Very spring like.

Thanks so much, Shirley, for sharing with us your stroll around Highdown gardens! :) Lovely to see so many flowers open & that Cherry tree has fabulous bark!:)

You have a eye for a bargain, Shirley! These are lovely plants! :)

Glad it brought back some lovely memories from your childhood, Shirley! :)

It's true I grow it in pots but I don't find it invasive at all! However some little tubers must have made it into some pots of Daffodils that I later planted out in the gardens of my old church as I saw several leaves in different places! But they can't have liked the soil or whatever because they didn't seem to multiply & I never did see any flowers on them.

I was taking a few pictures the other day of the plants growing & flowering in the gardens but I didn't see any sign of this plant - probably because it is very early in the year yet & they don't show their heads before the start of May on the balcony.