A neighborhood walk yields an update

The sky threatened but I grabbed a jacket and headed out the door anyway, too long setting at my desk hitting computer keys...

I started walking without a destination in mind and ended up here, a garden I first noticed in January of 2019. Back then it was a sea of landscape fabric with a few cool plants tucked in. Things have definitely improved since then...

The spiky characters look much more at home backed by rocks. Agave parryi...

Or even just soil (not cloth). Agave parrasana 'Meat Claw'...

Agave ovatifolia

That's an arctostaphylos (manzanita) but I don't know which one.

I really like the mix of bare soil and gravel, it's a little Roberto Burle Marx.

Walking on I came to this interesting fence. There must be an ADU (accesory dwelling unit, very Portland) tucked in the basement because it had it's own entrance and mailbox here on the side.

I peeked in through the fence.

Walking around to the front of the house...

Nigella seedheads I believe,

That's a nice sturdy support for the wisteria.

Peeking through to the front garden.

Trachelospermum asiaticum ‘Red Top’ perhaps?

That's a nice urbanite wall too...


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