Well, my picture-taking plans were thwarted by more rain--rain all day today and the threat of rain for the next two days as well. Regrettably, I had just moved about 25 Lewisias outside, and you know how most of them hate overhead watering. The rain started while I was dog-walking, and by the time I got home they were drenched. These plants really keep us hopping, don't they? I felt sorry for them in the solarium because I thought the sun coming through the glass was too hot, and who ever heard of rain in May in California? Showers, yes. Even some freak thunder showers, but there has never been any of this relentless, non-stop rain in California between March and October.
I'll have to share a picture of one of my geraniums with you as a warning. I don't know the name of it, but you might not want this one. It forms enormous clumps everywhere in your garden, yards and yards away from the place you originally planted it. I suppose I could get rid of it if I were really religious about pulling it out, but it has pretty pink blooms and graceful foliage and dark red stalks, and it covers a multitude of unsightly views, such as withering bulb foliage. Actually, I think it's probably in some of the pictures I posted on the alpine forum. This is its season to go mad and it's growing under and around several of the troughs. My favorite geraniums are the phaeums--Mourning Widow, Samobor, Lily Lovell, and Langthorn's Blue. I got a nice Geranium harveyi from Digging Dog this year. Interesting foliage and habit.
