You can pretty much count on me showing you pictures of Ribes.
It's a young garden.
Two of the Master Gardener ladies were here working, and one of them gave me a tour.
Apparently, this Salvia 'Bees Bliss' is becoming a real problem. Very smelly, and too eager to grow and take over. They have three patches of it.
The fungus was an interest point.
They'd been looking for a pile of dogshit for several weeks, but this is what they were smelling.
For the most part, the place smelled great.
The camera cannot interpret this rose for you. You really needed to see it with your own eyes.
And smell it.
Blueberry bushes.
Garden sign positivity. Excellent.
"Japanese Rice Koshibikari"
Besides the demonstration garden, this place is really quite the agricultural operation.
Throughout, there's a sense of gearing up for spring.
Gearing up at a leisurely pace, that is.
Note: the ostensible fog drifting through the air, isn't. It's smoke from a scrapyard fire. I thought it was just smoke from a lot of fireplaces. For awhile there yesterday, I thought Palo Alto was the new Los Angeles.
4 comments:
Gorgeous roses and a lovely garden. Thanks for another fun tour.
Nice tour! I was especially excited to see rice growing in a tub like that...I've been wanting to try growing rice by the river here, but I think the current is too fast-a tub is a great solution! Maybe wild rice would be good for me to try-it's a native plant in these parts, anyway.
Yeah, I'll have to drop by there again and check it out when the rice is growing. They have a whole set-up for it. I'll take more pictures. The Master Gardeners were verrry enthusiastic about their garden; I'm sure they'd be delighted to explain it all to me.
I'd like to experience that rose first hand, ChuckB - great color and looks perfect with the violet iris.
It was good to see the sign with positivity~
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
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