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.

Here are some of the plants in my rainbow garden.