Specialty Gardening: Cottage Garden in Southern California?, 1 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
Photo #5: Here's a closer look at the bed that surrounds the walnut. It is steeply sloped and there is yet another planting area and pathway about 8' wide, between this bed and the fence that marks our property boundary.

The canna is 'Tropicanna' aka 'Phaison'. It prefers partial shade anyway, as do the callas. The slender standard against the fence is a 'Sister Mary Agnes' oleander standard that will eventually help hide the schoolyard behind our property. As you can see, the cytisus is in full bloom (the bushy yellow-flowered shrub located to the right of the white-flowering callas on the LH border of the photo) despite being in almost continuous shade from 10a onwards.