Southwest Gardening: Pictures fom my garden, 2 by RODICAP

RODICAP wrote:
The left flower bed in my front garden. The front areas are where my very hard to survive plants usually not only grow but thrive. I have , as you will see, lilac, a hydrangea, poet's jasmine, clivia, a violet, one huge plants of acanthus mollis and an herb that is very hard to grow here, lovage,
First picture shows my Chinese lilac in bloom, a standard rose, a huge dutchmans pipe and some other plants more common here. The second one shows the lilac up close. The third and last is of my beautiful standard rose.