Monday, March 3, 2008

The season's first blooms of our xeriscaped front yard


are these three (top to bottom): prairie verbena, unknown-not-planted-by-me, and silver bush germander. These are all very low-maintenance and very drought-tolerant, and the verbena will bloom all the way through late Summer. If anyone recognizes the middle one, let me know: it has come up on its own every Spring since at least 1990 but I've never known what it is!



2 comments:

Rachel said...

Your mystery flower looks like grape hyacinth (muscari) to me. :)

Rachel @ in bloom

Iris said...

Thanks for both identifications,Rachel! I'm happy to discover your blog, too!