Spring comes fast and heavy in Northern CA, as it pretty much ends by May when the ground starts to dry and warm up, and out come the garden hoses to deal with our bone-dry summers. I went out yesterday and took some more photos (13), which follow. This one is Variegated vinca minor. It's in a tall pot with senecio, which still didn't protect the senecio from losing almost all its leaves in our recent frosts.
#2 - Cottage garden in March NorCal
Can't take credit for this one - it's brand new, and was blooming at the nursery. Unfortunately I should have taken the photo BEFORE I threw all the mulch over it, LOL! So the pretty flowers have a lot of cocoa mulch dust on them, and look brown-speckled when they really aren't. It's a Pacific Coast hybrid native iris, named 'Moonlight & Lavendar':
Wonderful! Thank you!!!
Lovely. Do you have to remove the callas or can you leave them inground during the winter? I think I have zone envy.
cathy166 - the soil never freezes in coastal Northern CA (San Francisco Bay Area). It's a true Mediterranean zone climate. We do have 7-10 frost days/yr, meaning things get nipped back and really tender perennials can die.
Wow, what a nice surprise to find all your beautiful pictures! I'm sitting here in dreary Ohio waiting for more snow right now. Thanks so much for sharing- I needed it ^_^