Specialty Gardening: CA cottage garden in winter, 1 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
Here we stand at the bottom of our lot, looking upwards towards the garden shed (and the house still further up, which can't be seen). I love the foliage in this bed, which encircles a slowly dying walnut tree. The bright pink of the 'Sundowner' phormium (New Zealand flax) contrasts against an erysimum 'Bowles Mauve', a 'Limelight' helichrysum groundcover, with an Artemisia 'Powis Castle' (that hates the winters, getting a little ratty-looking) behind them all.

In the distance you can see the clump of giant white callas coming back for their winter show. The trellises mark the property line between our lot and the neighbors.