Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - June 2012 The Landscape as Art

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

Roberto Burle Marx

Bougainvillea, Daylilies and Society  Garlic - A casual bouquet of bloom

Color washes through my garden; like waves through tidal pools. That is to say, it isn't all at once or all in one place.  In June, this shaded corner just off  the back is one of my favorite spots to rest.

The baby birds mostly grown, the garden crew just came through, clearing weeds and shaping trees.

The Matilija Poppy Romneya coulteri's season of white blossoms glowing in the back canyon is beginning to give way to summer. To understand why this native in bloom causes garden hearts to flutter ~ 

this close up image by Gene Sasse  says is silently. When this bush poppy is in full bloom- it is like the constellations  landed and lit up the landscape.

The lavender is pushing through an other round of bee and butterfly enticing blooms. Tomorrow I will sheer some blooms off to flavor sugar for cookies. The orange nasturtiums will brighten luncheon salads with their peppery taste.

The yellow of 'Graham Thomas' rose keeps this spot from being a snoozer

The steep hillside out front acts like a canvas on easel to paint with flowers. Brightened in spring by the collection of English roses and iris playing in a panapoly of plants, in summer, the quiet moment brought to us by the analogous colorway of blue + yellow  = green is soft on the eyes as June gloom is on the skin. 

The stained glass globe is lit by solar at night and cuddled by a ruffle of sea lavender by day.

Achoo! Most of what you see blooming was never officially planted.  Some of it came home as seed stowaways in sneaker treads.  Others may never be known how they came to live here. 

The daylily are popping up where the borage fell down. Tomorrow I'll pull out the fallen hollow stems  of the herb now past its prime.

This bougainvillea is a welcome trespasser over the garden fence.

It links its arms through the kumquat tree, still brimming with plump tart little oblong orange fruits . I took a bag to my personal trainer this week. Why I hadn't thought of it before- I'm going to slice some to flavor-up iced tea and water.

Look closely- there are 3 bunny rabbits in this picture. 

The garden is ever-changing. Except that once you have rabbits- you will have more rabbits. Unless the rest of the food chain moves in- that is the subject for another day. 


Linking up to May Dreams Garden Bloggers Bloom Day 

Landscape quote from Brainy Quote