things that bloom

**G*@aol.com**

In Southern California there are many bloomers right now, but it always  
varies a little due to, rain, which we always need, cold Santa Ana winds which  we 
never need, and just plain cold--nights down in the high 30s to low  forties.

But right now, in my garden, polyanthus narcisissus are blooming and nearly  
through, a late planting of dwarf marigolds is still blooming, pansies, 
violas,  statice, melampodium, bird of paradise, roses, ageratum, lobelia, 
calendula,  cosmos, verbena tenuisecta, impatiens, nasturtium, daylily, violets, 
tomatoes,  sugar peas, petunia, and still a few cannas, plus white calla blooming. 
Some are  about over the hill, since they're really summer and fall blooms, 
some are just  beginning, since they're winter.

We've had the cold nights, we've had the Santa Ana winds and the weather  
clowns assure us that we're going to get rain this weekend.

Jerry

Gerald Burke
Garden Writer

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