Gardening in Altadena Meadows

A home garden superbloom

Today we ’re in Altadena Meadows , California , visiting Andrea Donnellan ’s beautiful garden . This is a quad she created with the intriguer Arturo Pedroza . He design the garden and put in the initial plants . That has germinate into a gardening partnership over the year . When her boy was humble , they put in alawnand then later convert it to the morewater - responsible for gardenthat is there now .

Each twelvemonth , Andrea scatterswildflower seeds , and the abundant winter rains in California this yr have work the garden into a colorful superbloom .

sail of California poppies ( Eschscholziacalifornica , annual ) take the garden withbright orange , complementing the purplish heyday of lavender ( Lavandulastoechas , Zones 7–9 ) .

The garden ’s nonmigratory dinosaur is enjoying the superbloom as well .

The poppy are absolutely arresting .

California poppies arenative to the westcoast of North America , but they flourish asannualsin many garden . There are selected forms in a wide-cut range of colors , but it is hard to beat the original shining sunny orangeness .

Andrea first planted African daisy ( Osteospermumhybrid , Zones 10–11 or grown as an one-year ) in front of the theater , and now it volunteers along their parkway . In the foreground are the delicateblue flowersof the California aboriginal baby gamy eye ( Nemophilamenziesii , yearly ) .

A tightlipped look at the African daisy prime .

Rosea purple iceplant ( Drosanthemum floribundum , Zones 10–11 ) was planted nearly three decades ago and is still adding beautiful color to the hillside .

Thiswater - wise gardenincludes many indigen while also being a really beautiful space .

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