Ralph Moore was the famous hybridizer of 'Millie Walters,' a miniature hybrid-tea-style
rose, and the first to bloom in the garden this year.
While I wasn't looking someone changed the name of Cineraria to Pericallis. It's a showstopper
whatever name it has.
'Silver Waves' is a large flowered Camellia japonica with bright white saucer-sized blooms.
Another camellia, 'Daikagura,' was hybridized in 1896 and had a peony-form blossom.
This bouganvillia, 'Barbara Karst,' reaches twelve feet up the side of the house. Technically the
little ivory buds are the flowers and the red petal-like objects are called bracts.
The warm daytime temperatures and cool nights suit this light-blue viola, a cousin of the sweet violet.
Cymbidium orchids are in bud in the front porch garden with bloom likely in a week or so.
Matthiola incana, more commonly known as fragrant stock, part of the cabbage family. It smells a
lot sweeter than cabbage!
Single red flowered zonal geranium (actually a pelargonium) is just beginning its winter bloom.
Another variety of fragrant stock offers lucious purple blossoms.
Another pelargonium, popularly called ivy geranium, resides in the front porch garden and offers
its flowers at eye level from a hanging basket.
You can never have too much lobelia, and despite its intense blue color it never overpowers its
companion plants.
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