While I've been focusing on the Dracunculus vulgaris, I've been totally ignoring the Digitalis obscura, willow-leaved foxglove, just next to it. It's a nice little treasure. Very near by are these Euphorbia myrsinites, with a label for a different Euphorbia in a very misleading location. Good thing I looked it up. I think the yellow one might even be the same individual that is in the BPotD posting: Euphorbia myrsinites, which, btw, has 41 comments, mostly about people's adverse reactions to it.
I even had a reminder to look for Asphodeline lutea to catch it in bloom. Almost. Nearby are these Asphodelus aestivus. I posted the flowers of Berkheya multijuga one year. The new leaves are just as interesting, even more-so because they look so benign, not nasty-sharp.
I photographed these Nemophila maculata at the end of May, never posted them, but saw them again yesterday, in the food garden with the onions. So pretty, and so attractive to the bees. There is an interpretive sign nearby that talks about having flowers pull in the bees that will then fertilize the vegetables.
I'm having trouble learning the name Symphoricarpos, one of which I posted for ID a week or so ago, Identification: - Shrub with teeny pink flowers. So far, I've managed to remember the common name, snowberry. I went looking in the BC Native Garden for the Symphoricarpos albus and actually found one. These leaves look quite different from the one in town, no doubt why Eric La Fountaine said that one was probably a cultivar. It's interesting to me that the ones from the park in town are in full sun, and this one is pretty much in full shade, still has flowers (or soon will have flowers). Maybe it's worth considering for the shady corner of my balcony. Another plant whose name I have trouble remembering is Holodiscus discolor, ocean spray. The common name is pretty evocative, but that's as far as my memory goes, and I forget what it's evocative of. Here is Deutzia schneideriana, not posted here before. I can usually remember the name Deutzia, but it took me a long time to recognize the flowers. I did not recognize these. Flowers are smaller than other Deutzia I remember, maybe 1.5cm diameter. A friend and I did the Greenheart Tree Walk this time. I've done it before, learn something different each time.
Today I noticed three of these as I was leaving the food garden to take the new-ish step path down to the tunnel. There is supposed to be Symphoricarpos alba var. laevigatus in the neighbourhood, so that's what I'm assuming these are.
