Garden Tours: Calsurf73, Mike

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Posted by @Sharon on
Welcome to All Things Plants: Garden Tours. Each week we'll take you on a tour of the lovely gardens of one of our members. Join us now as we travel to California where Mike will take us through the gardens he has created. You are going to love what you see!

 

 


These two are the entry to the garden from the street under an arbor with a Cecile Brunner climbing rose growing on it.

   
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Arbor with variegated Solanum Vine and Pat Austin rose trained as a climber growing up through it and the second image is Colette Rose on arbor with purple ivy geraniums growing up through it.

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Dream Weaver cl. rose with Jackmanii clematis

   
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Panther coffee table base found in trash and repainted and a
daylily with purple canterbury bells.

   
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Old lamp base repainted and used amongst 
Ernest Markham clematis and perennials amongst roses by bench.

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Wooden Angel sculpture found in dumpster and repainted, hanging on arbor

   
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Aerial view:

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Coleus, hydrangeas and Cat garden art:

   
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Cat candle holders stuffed with moss on rose arbor and
headboard found in trash with metal cat added

   
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Pathway under arbor towards another "room" and
same area, with color:

   
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Foxglove seedlings

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  The daylily that got me hooked and 
mixed flowers:

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White hydrangea,
Madonna and roses, Watsonia:

   
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Mixed daylilies from Pirl and
pathway to another "room":

   
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How beautiful, Mike! Gorgeous blooms and wonderful garden art! I particularly love the cats!

Thank you so much for taking us through your gardens!

~

Please join us again next week as we take another garden tour.

Garden Tours is a joint effort by Trish and Sharon.
 

 
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Fabulous, Mike! by zuzu Jan 11, 2013 3:53 AM 25

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