Long Beach planters 2015

When the Long Beach planters were installed years ago, no plan had been made for their planting and maintenance.  A volunteer “adopt a planter” program began with enthusiastic participants.  Unfortunately, because the enthusiasm tended to not last through the summers, the planters became weedy and unwatered by June.  Finally, a few years ago, we were asked to take over the planting and maintenance of all of them (36 on the main street, and maybe 20 more out on the beach approaches).  Because volunteers chose different plants, some of the planters still have full sized shrubs including non-dwarf barberries, escallonia, variegated euonymous, azaleas, and other too-large choices.  Each year, we re-do a couple of the planters.  In 2016, our mission is to make the planters on the two beach approaches better.  We experience more wind and salt out there, much more vandalism,  and a need, on the Bolstadt approach, to be completely drought tolerant, so wish us luck!

All of the hanging baskets are by Nancy Aust of the Basket Case Greenhouse.

Here are some photos of the planters through 2015.  If you click on a photo to embiggen it, you will get back and forth navigation arrows.

2-12, Hermodactylus Iris tuberosus

2-13, crocus

2-13, narcissus

2-13, narcissus

2-15, crocus

2-20, primrose, grape hyacinth

2-20, narcissi

3-6, Tulip sylvestris

3-10, narcissi

3-13, Tulip sylvestris and ‘Gavota’

3-13, Cerinthe major purpurascens

3-13, tulip

3-21, narcissus and heuchera

3-21, a dwarf rhododendron

3-21, Tulip ‘Apricot Parrot’

3-31, Euonymous shrub

3-31, narcissus and tulips

3-31, azalea

3-31, Tulip ‘Florette’

4-1, Tulip ‘Apricot Parrot’

4-4, Tulip ‘Formosa’

4-4, Tulip ‘Akebono’

4-17, Tulip ‘Apricot Parrot’

4-17, Cerinthe major purpurascens

4-17, Narcissus

4-17, Tulip ‘Akebono’

4-17, Tulip ‘Green Wave’

4-23, Tulip ‘Green Wave’

4-23

4-30, Cerinthe major purpurascens

4-30, sparaxus

4-30, Narcissus

4-30, Cerinthe major purpurascens (and Tam)

4-30

4-30, Asphodeline lutea

4-30, Cerinthe major purpurascens

5-1, helianthemum and armeria

5-1, Tulip ‘Formosa’

5-13, Erysimum ‘Bowles Mauve’

5-17, Cosmos ‘Sonata’ and Salvia viridis

5-21

5-21, California poppies

5-28, Geranium ‘Rozanne’

6-9, California poppies

6-9, Salvia ‘Hot Lips’

6-12, lavender

6-12, California poppies and Oenothera

6-12, California poppies

6-12, Cerinthe major purpurascens

6-16, California poppies

6-16

6-16

6-16, Lavender stoechas

6-24, Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’

6-24, Cosmos ‘Sonata’

6-24, California poppies and Coreopsis ‘Star Cluster’

6-29, Santolina chamaecyparissus (lavender cotton)

6-29, California poppies

6-29, California poppy

6-29

6-29, cosmos and California poppies

6-29, diascia

6-29, dahlia and California poppies

6-29, California poppies and lavender

6-29, California poppies

6-29, California poppies and agastache

6-29, agastache

6-29, cosmos, California poppies, agastache

7-2, Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’

7-2, gold hardy fuchsia, cosmos, agastache

7-2, agastache, cosmos

7-2, Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ and golden oregano

7-2, lavender

7-2, Daphne ‘Eternal Fragrance’

7-6, cosmos and Agastache ‘Astella Indigo’

7-6

7-6, California poppies

7-6, Tigridia (Mexican shellflower)

7-6

7-9

7-9, Cosmos ‘Sonata’

7-9, agastache and cosmos

7-9. hardy fuchsia

7-9

7-9

7-13 Tigridia (Mexican shellflower)

7-13, Geranium ‘Rozanne’

7-13

7-13, California poppies

7-16, ‘Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’

7-16, Agyranthemum ‘Butterfly’

7-16

7-16, Salvia viridis (painted sage)

7-20, nasturtiums, Agastache ‘Astello Indigo’

7-20, Geranium ‘Rozanne’ and Cosmos ‘Sonata’

7-20, golden oregano and Geranium ‘Rozanne’

7-23, Oregano ‘Hopley’s Purple’

7-23. Cosmos ‘Sonata’

7-23 Geranium ‘Rozanne’

7-27

7-27, Geranium ‘Rozanna’ and Agastache ‘Astella Indigo’

7-27, Salvia viridis and dahlia

7-27

7-27

7-27, Salvia viridis

7-27, Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’

7-27

7-30

7-30, Eryngium reseeded at street level

7-30, California poppies, Salvia viridis

8-3

8-3, Agastache ‘Astella Indigo’

8-3, Pink gaura

8-3, golden oregano, Salvia, and a special hardy geranium

8-3, California poppies

8-6

8-10

8-10

8-10, Cosmos ‘Sonata’

8-10, Cosmos ‘Antiquity’

8-10, Othonna cheirifolia

8-13, Agastache

8-13, Knautia ‘Thunder and Lightning’

8-13

8-13

8-13, hardy fuchsia

8-17, Salvia viridis

8-17, Salvia viridis

8-17, Tigridia (Mexican shellflower)

8-20

8-20, hardy fuchsia and cosmos

8-24, Knautia ‘Thunder and Lightning’

8-26, agastache

8-26, agastache

8-26, Oregano ‘Hopley’s Purple’

8-26, Geranium ‘Rozanne’

8-26, pink gaura

9-9, Cosmos ‘Sonata’

9-9

9-9

9-14, after Rod Run sitters

9-14, Stachys lanata (lambs ears)

9-14

9-14, after Rod Run

9-24, Salvia viridis

9-24, California poppies

10-1, Salvia viridis

10-1

10-1, Salvia patens

10-1, Salvia patens

10-1, lavender

10-8, Salvia viridis

10-8, Salvia patens

10-8, Geranium ‘Rozanne’

10-8, Erysimum ‘Bowles Mauve’

10-8, Cosmos ‘Sonata’

10-8, Cosmos ‘Sonata’ and Salvia viridis

10-13, dahlia

10-13, Cosmos ‘Sonata’, Cerinthe major purpurascens, Cosmos atrosanguineus (chocolate cosmos)

Tigridia (Mexican shellflower)

10-13, chrysanthemum

10-13, Salvia viridis

10-13, Daphne ‘Eternal Fragrance’

10-13, Geranium ‘Rozanne’

10-23

10-29, Cosmos ‘Sonata’

11-10, chrysanthemum

11-10, Othonna cheirifolia

11-10, Cosmos ‘Sonata’

11-27, Geranium ‘Rozanne’

11-27, Geranium ‘Rozanne’

11-27, Geranium ‘Rozanne’

12-5

12-9, chrysanthemum

12-9, chrysanthemum and rhododendron