The Daily Bucket - June 2017 Yard Report

Castro Valley, near Oakland, CA; approx 37.7N by 122W, 400 feet.

This is part of my ongoing project to document the changes in our yard from month to month.

May 2017 is here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/16/1661890/-The-Daily-Bucket-May-2017-Yard-Report April 2017 is here:http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/04/11/1650881/-The-Daily-Bucket-April-ish-Yard-Report March 2017 is Here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/03/13/1642539/-The-Daily-Bucket-March-Yard-Report February 2017 is Here:http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/15/1632790/-The-Daily-Bucket-February-Yard-Report The January 2017 yard report is Here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/21/1622018/-The-Daily-Bucket-January-Yard-Report Previous versions are listed near the top of the December 2016 report:   http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/12/29/1615231/-The-Daily-Bucket-December-Yard-Report

This month was a bit more thorough and tended to emphasize relative positions, which I did by aiming for strips, either  north-south (or vice-versa) or east-west (or vice-versa), because of a different project I am doing. The pics are from the beginning of the month, and though I have grape clusters with "grapes" of pinhead size, I didn't photograph them. The primary vine is possibly largely dead and requiring creative retrellising, wspecially on the east end, so I pretty much skipped it.

So here we go:

This is all early June.

Out the back door to the right looking south

a bit further south

more

and more, with pineapple sage on the left of the walk

the potted geranium in the patio across from the back door & false hedge

the false hedge between patio and yard, false cypress, gardenia at the end. This also shows the fountain, apricot and boxed guava

The bed of santa barbara daisies just south of the false hedge

the same west to east strip as the last, showing the fountain and apricot

the same strip again, highlightint the apricot and some of the fruit - almost full size but very green

the pineapple sage, just south of the Santa Barbara Daisies

pineapple sage on left and california fuschia on right (east)

from the edge of the orange tree, isolating the California Fuschia, behind which are the santa barbara daisies, the gardenia and one false cypress, the apricot with coffeeberry behind it, and the guava

looking up at the orange, the riper ones are now edible and juiceable

2 potted celery under the orange

the ribes, blackberry, compost bin and part of the redbud

around the corner from the ribes, wild mint, potted milkweed, irises, 4 or 5 amaryllis, and east end of pergola with hanging planters, garlic top, green onions bottom

closer to the pergola showing the planters and some of the grape foliage

further along irises under and grapes climbing

past the pergola, the east face of the escalonia

looking east from in front of the ribes, bunch grass, white sage and pineapple sage on the right, strawberries and fuschia on the left edge of the path, and the orange

the blackberry, blooming but no fruit, and compost bin

the back redbud

bunchgrass, white sage, pineapple sage, path, strawberries and fuschia

closer in of pineapple sage and fuschia

some sort of volunteer vine behind the redbud

fuschia

north from the fuschia showing proximity of guava and apricot

as above

guava with coffeeberry behind

pineapple sage/cal-fuschia cluster from the east showing the embedded dusty miller

coffeeberry

back door - we inherited the foliage adjacent to same

north from back door, succulents and lavender along wall, trumpet vine to right, false cypress, part of pear, and a boxed ribes further out

lavender amid the succulents, blooming strong now

trumpet vine and hydrangea it is swallowing, we just pruned it way back to free hydrangea

trumpet vine, hydrangea, I forget, ferns and rhododendron

rhodie in front of camillia, bay to the left

center strip lines up with bay: succulents, flowers including bee balm, green onions. potted tomatoes at corner of lemon on left.

focus on bee balm

lemon from SW, fronted by green beans, strawberries, rhubarb, tomatoes

lemon from SE, tomatoes, epazote and overwintered & now bolting chard

lemon from east

bed 1, zukes, flowering

irises & daffs

island mallow *still* blooming

bed 2, chard, kale, string beans

beds 1 & 2 from west, also strawberries in planter box at end of bed 2

180 degrees from above, looking west, potted trumpet vine and boxed ribes

gerbera daisies and false cypress, pear on the right

pear with apple behind

pear close-up

apple

apples

tucked behind the gate to the west of the apple is a tree fern

south of that gate is the rosemary and camillia

redbud, camillia to the left, hedge down by white truck

beneath redbud from west, sedum & clevelandia sage blooming, irises left, potted chives right

strip ending at rosemary is Japanese irises, then foxgloves, then irises, then redbud

white sage behind clevelandia

garlic chives, sticky monkey flower behind

sticky monkey flower

irises behind redbud and south of camillia

barberry and bottlebrushes just south of walk, fuschia peeking over top of false cypress

south past bottlebrushes and mexican sage to ceanothus, fuschia bottom front, bunchgrass near ceanothus, and escalonia peeking up behing all that

paired false cypress & barberry, blue spruce & mexican sage, with ceanothus and escalonia behind, on left, geranium, succulents and salvias on right with buddleia and roses behind

hedge to mountain cedar and buddleia, geranium, succulents and such to left of hedge

inside hedge, also shows lambs ear

ditto showing potted palm

ditto showing salvias and ceanothus

salvias and ceanothus

ceanothus with escalonia behind

roses and escalonia on right (looking east along south boundary)

looking west from above spot, roses and buddleia

SW corner, hedge, mountain cedar & buddleia

mountain cedar

blue spruce

from across the street, redbud, spruce, buddleia

this is the bunchgrass just north of the ceanothus, bottlebrush on left, mexican sage on right, never really shown before

Also never shown, another fuschia species between bottle brush and escalonia (n to s) and hidden by ceanothus from west

What have you noted happening in your area or travels? As usual post your observations as well as their general location in the comments.    

Thank you.