These evening's garden tour

[billeyler]

6pm at the Eyler-Lee Casita

The "I forgot the name" purple flowers on spikes I've had for 13+ years or so. It may be a member of the foxglove family, but it's much smaller and the leaves are much different.



Name-forgotten rose which shifts from yellows to corals to blazing oranges and rosey-pinks depending on the day. I had thought I had lost this rose last year, but it came bounding out this spring with dozens of fiery blooms.



The Japanese Aucuba I'm going to transplant tomorrow to a more shaded spot under the junipers. I bought it two years ago, thinking that this spot would be well-shaded, but it gets too much direct afternoon sun.



One of the two "Day Dream" roses I have, with hundreds of tiny 10-petaled slightly mauve flowers. The last of the yellow irises are persevering below it. A young volunteer pink hollyhock is getting its start to the left.

Comments

[pdxchuck.livejournal.com]

Nice garden. Killer rose.

[redsquared.livejournal.com]

We have a similar rose to your "Tropicana'. We don't know its name since it was there in the garden when we bought the place. It always starts off yellow, then it gets red pink around the edges. Then it turns mostly pink. It has a really wonderful scent.

We also have an Aucuba which we put against the north facing wall. It keeps growing and Kevin keeps trimming it back or else it would just take over the world!

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

I'll have to look it up again...the tag I had on it went missing. But yes, that sounds like the same rose!

[redsquared.livejournal.com]

I always thought that it was just a standard tea rose. We have several cuttings of it now around the property. The flowers on the one in the front regularly get stolen from people walking along the sidewalk.