First Bloom in Land Park Sacramento Always Delights

Julie Elizabeth rose is a peachy yellow with impressive blooms.

Year after year, the first bloom in Land Park never fails to engage the senses. One day the weather is drab, dull and rainy, and the next, all of a sudden, it’s spring-time and everything is in bloom. We’ve had so much rain earlier this year that builders are falling behind with new construction, but our flowers and vegetation are thriving. I notice this because we need to hire a full-time weeder now. The onion weeds are taking over the back gardens, and it’s not like I will do it. Our gardener won’t do it. Where does one find a professional weeder?

Because I sell Sacramento real estate, I don’t even have time to care for a fish tank, how can I garden? Perennials are the answer. So, last summer I bought flowers for one of our new garden beds. These occupy the space where our spa used to live, the spa nobody used anymore. Over the winter, I never touched the beds, did not prune nor cut back anything. Then, this spring, flowers like the verbena continued to grow from the existing stalks. Now they are 8-feet high and tower over our garage!

If you’d like to take a peek at the first bloom in Land Park, here are a few photos I thought you might enjoy. I must add that I’m grateful to be living in a place where I don’t have to worry about whether it will snow by the end of the month, like people in Minneapolis do. I’m 99.9% certain it’s not gonna snow on our first bloom in Land Park.

Pink and cream carnations are a vintage variety

Red and white Asian Lily produces a sweet scent.

Star Jasmine reminds me of a Dutch windmill more than a star.

The first Shasta Daisy to pop up in our Land Park garden.

These tri-colored Gerbera multiplied like crazy this May.

The verbena consist of hundreds of itty bitty purple 5-point flowers.

These verbena are 8- to 9-feet tall and have grown over our garage!

Our purple crest aeonium are taller than me and produce enormous groups of star-shaped yellow flowers.

Coral aloe makes me wonder if I could make mescal from the succulent.

Photos: iPhone 7 Plus (pretty good for a cellphone), by Elizabeth Weintraub.  Not that I would EVER shoot property photos with a cellphone. No reputable Sacramento Realtor would ever do that.