Spring!

Salvia greggii: overwintered nicely, now blooming like crazy.   This is a great landscape plant.  Hummingbirds and butterflies like it too.

 

Purple trailing lantana: four from last year coming back; three new ones to fill in.  They will spread over this area and be covered with purple blossoms.

Calylophus: looked ratty after winter.  Now getting full and starting to bloom.  Will be covered with yellow blossoms soon.  It was new last year; should spread some more this year.

 

Avocado tree: impulse purchase, maybe foolish.  This is a Lila, a self-pollinating variety that is supposedly okay down to 15 degrees.  More cold tolerant but less productive than the ones grown commercially down in the Valley.

Bolting lettuce: I was caught off guard by this (of course).  We had a few warm days but I still thought it would last another month.  Red sails and green oak leaf varieties still taste okay; romaine is bitter.

Butterfly: what kind? Looked it up online; it might be a red admiral.