A Little Slice of Heaven in San Diego

Filling a small garden with beauty

Today ’s photos come from Catherine Dickerson .

My husband and I have been gardening on our little 1/4 acre in San Diego since we move here in 2002 . I ’m still work toward a painterly , English garden experience and am not yet quenched with the results . But there are a number of treasured works that I ’m pleased to be able to share with you here .

On one end of the back terrace , thefuchsiaare have a beautiful 2nd flower for the first clock time in almost 20 years , and we ’re loving it ! They are my husband ’s treasures , and he start the 30 hang baskets regularly . The obscure organisation he designed and built is almost unseeable , and it observe the plants very well-chosen .

The other end of the terrace , showing more glad fuchsia .

Some favored commode withJohnny parachuting - ups(Viola × wittrockiana , one-year ) , one of my daddy ’s best-loved flowers from his boyhood in Maine . He ’s the one who introduced me to gardening .

Zinnias(Zinnia elegans , annual ) in the front garden . Neighbors have been telling me that they bring in their young kid here to take picture in front of the flowers . So mellisonant !

A tantrum from the White Garden . A 70 + yr - former neighbor ’s grandfather ’s wooden ladder is border with fuchsia blossoms . The flying quat birdhouse in the front leftfield in reality had a nest in it this yr !

Feverfew(Tanacetumparthenium , Zones 5–10 ) producing cheery white-hot daisy flowers .

A fragrant white gardenia flower(Gardenia jasminoides , Zones 8–10 )

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