Oakland Tour: 2nd House

More Garden tour 2011 photos....I'm really sad I missed it this year. Really sad. 

Echium Wildpretij- Tower of Jewels

Walkways

I just love the way skinny walkways are made beautiful by plants and flowers.

From the Oakland Garden Tour 2011

From the Oakland Garden Tour 2011

This is on a sidewalk

My backyard.

From the Oakland Garden Tour 2011

You don't even need dirt!  Oakland Garden Tour 2011

Oakland Tour: 5th House

Every spring in the Bay Area, people open up their gardens for the Annual Bay Friendly Coalition Garden Tour. I missed it this year so I'm making myself feel better by posting these photos from last year. This garden was refreshingly less into aesthetics and more into function : ) They had a lot of land. Note the bee house, use of hay, natural containers made from logs,  and reuse of an old ladder to make a trellis. 

A beautiful tree

Check out this amazing curly-q succulent called Moraea Tortilis!

I don't think I've ever seen something so cute...learn more on Bihrmann's CAUDICIFORMS