Unsurprisingly, after alternating rain and sun, the grass in front is kind of long, albeit patchy, and the clover patch occupies a good third of its area and is marching onward. I wonder whether the city would mind if the clover took over the entire thing.
Here's the old apple tree in full bloom.
A mad profusion of baby morning glories have sprouted in the bed where the unexpectedly multicolored ones were last year. I have cleared away the great hanks of their dead parents and set the stakes upright again; let's see if they manage to grow without assiduous watering and if so, what colors I get this time.
Here's a puzzle - what tree is this? This is the one that is left all alone in what used to be the rear of the old garden center on El Camino (now a cleared lot next to the straightened and deepened channel of a creek). Somewhere I have a pic of it in bloom, but only from a distance: it flowers in pink, in fall or winter.
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puca suggested, the odd flowering period, spines and leaf shape suggest something in the Ceiba genus, as does the greyish bark that looks as if it is covered with yellowish moss but actually, as the closeups show, is in part yellowish-green itself; these trees apparently have chlorophyll in their bark until they reach a certain age. But most of them seem to have rougher bark, and a characteristic bottle-shaped trunk base, and the silk floss tree has characteristically horizontal branches, which this one doesn't, and deep pink blossoms rather than the pale pink I've seen from the road. The closest I can find depicted on a Wikimedia site is the kapok tree, which has the thick, crowded branches I'm seeing, but the few pictures of its flowers that I can find are either yellow or cream, and instead of the bottle-shaped base of the trunk, it has buttresses. Also these all seem to be large trees - this one is medium-sized. I see mention of the suggestively named ceiba rosea, but can't find a picture of it, or mention of whether it is also a large tree. So it is a puzzle.
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puca suggested, the odd flowering period, spines and leaf shape suggest something in the Ceiba genus, as does the greyish bark that looks as if it is covered with yellowish moss but actually, as the closeups show, is in part yellowish-green itself; these trees apparently have chlorophyll in their bark until they reach a certain age. But most of them seem to have rougher bark, and a characteristic bottle-shaped trunk base, and the silk floss tree has characteristically horizontal branches, which this one doesn't, and deep pink blossoms rather than the pale pink I've seen from the road. The closest I can find depicted on a Wikimedia site is the kapok tree, which has the thick, crowded branches I'm seeing, but the few pictures of its flowers that I can find are either yellow or cream, and instead of the bottle-shaped base of the trunk, it has buttresses. Also these all seem to be large trees - this one is medium-sized. I see mention of the suggestively named ceiba rosea, but can't find a picture of it, or mention of whether it is also a large tree. So it is a puzzle..