An agave blooms, in the Kuzma/Halme garden

Last weekend Andrew and I attended a summer celebration in the Kuzma/Halme garden. Longtime readers will recognize a few of these iconic shots, if not the name. After all I've been chronicling my visits to this garden for 12 years now. We start in the front garden...Yucca rostrata
Doesn't this look like a family portrait?
We're in the back garden now, and appreciating just how big—and fantastic—the eucalyptus are.
Passiflora 'Fata Confetto'
Leucadendron argenteum, definitely not hardy here in Portland, but where there is a will, there is a way.
Of course I gave away the surprise in the title of this post, but look at that! A fifteen-year old Agave ovatifolia 'Frosty Blue' is doing it's end-of-life bloom.
The flowers were buzzing with activity and a hummingbird zipped in for a sip right after I took this shot.
A little orange flower-power that works well with the large pot in the distance.
Erythrostemon gilliesii, which I will always think of as Caesalpinia gilliesii.
Agave ovatifolia showing a little damage, but still commanding all the attention in this part of the garden.
There is new metal edging going in around the pathways and I think it looks fabulous. 
Of course it's hard to notice the edging with Trachelospermum asiaticum ‘Theta’ pooling at the base of the trachycarpus and climbing their hairy trunks (I finally got around to borrowing this idea earlier this year, but it's going to be for ever before mine looks anything like this).
The fountain's cannas were blooming...
And the flowers were drawing the attention of the little ones in attendance. In all my years of visiting this garden this is the first time I've seen kids running through the plantings. 
On one hand it terrified me (the plants!), on the other hand how lucky are they to get to spend time in this botanic wonderland when they visit their grands! When one of the little ones misplaced his water, and was asking for another, he explained it this way: "I lost it in the forest!"