Scenes from the Rainbow Garden

One of the many families who walk by our street side garden calls it the “rainbow garden.” With a three-year-old and baby in tow I hear, “Find a purple flower” or “Where is the red flower?” The eager preschooler darts back and forth along the 70-foot stretch of flowers.

There are many walkers enjoying our spring garden these days of Covid-19 stay-at-home. Lots of photos snapped as they pass by on daily walks.

I call my garden a mixed Mediterranean garden with plants from those west-facing edges of continents that share a similar climate of dry summers and mild, wet winters: California, Central Chile, the Mediterranean Basin, the Cape Region of South Africa, and Southwestern and South Australia. I grow annuals, perennials and shrubs from all those regions and they thrive.

Mediterranean Climate Zones

Here are some of the plants in my rainbow garden.

Alstroemeria

Geranium

Murabalis

Santa Barbara daisy

Calla lily

Gilia tricolor

Campanula muralis

Erigeron

Lupine and Mexican marigold

Larkspur

Cerinthe

Alstroemeria

Mimulus

Calendulas

San Diego sunflower

Blue-eyed grass

Greek poppies