Dolores Street Hell-Strip

This sidewalk hell-strip garden has a harsh southern exposure surrounded by concrete and asphalt.   It is irrigated in the summer dry months.   I have been replacing those plants which couldn't take the exposure like a mop head hydrangea, I do not lie, with Mediterranean and California native plants and cultivars.

This is a year in review post and these most recent photos were taken the first week of July, 2024.

Santolina, Cuphea, Salvia and Aeonium.

Bronze Fennel, Echerveria, dried annuals, Echium and Baccharis.

Showy Milkweed is full bloom with lots of aphids and lady-beetles, Bronze Fennel, Aster and Erigeron and of course, Lucy, my beloved truck.

Yarrow, dried annuals, Catnip, Santolina, Aeonium and Salvia leucanthus.

And Finally Pelargonium, Seslaria, Salvia leucanthus, Santolina, dried annuals and yarrow. 

And a view from the corner up Duncan Street.

First week of March, 2024 - Narcissus, Bronze Fennel, Aeonium, Echeveria and Santolina.

Narcissus, Bronze Fennel in front of Baccharis along with sprouts of annual wildflowers.

An early Orlaya, Aloe with Cuphea, Echerveria, Santolina and Seslaria.

Winter Solstice where the structure of the Aeoniums really help out.

And white Alyssum to fill the voids between the perennials.

First week of September, 2023 - Aster and Yarrow with Showy Milkweed.

White Rose with Yarrow, Seslaria and Erigeron.

Bronze Fennel blooming with Orange Milkweed, Echerveria and Baccharis.

And to end the year, August, 2023.

Yarrow in bloom with Echeveria, Bronze Fennel, Cuphea and Baccharis to hold it all together.

Alliums with Aeonium, Bronze Fennel and Santolina.

Yarrow with Aster and Salvia.

And finally, Showy Milkweed in full glory.  Thanks for reading.