Sunday, June 14, 2009

Ceanothus

Whooooooeeeeee! This is a bumper year for the ceanothus. I've never seen it bloom so intensely as this. The view out the kitchen door is blue, blue blue.
I guess, like the rosemary, it is especially thankful to be alive this year. There were a lot of casualties - the hebes all pretty much snuffed it. And, sadly, it looks as though the rose on the back deck got just a little too frozen. 
I thought it was just being slow to bud, but all the other roses have leafed out and are blooming up a storm (post to come). It's kind of macabre. Wonder if I should go ahead and cut it down, or give it another year to think about it?
Meanwhile, we're all just drinking in the ceanothus (in this closeup, you can see why it gets called "California lilac") and the sunshine.

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