March in Our Sunnyvale Garden – 2019

Our Sunnyvale garden in March 2019 was filled with flowers.Spring blossoms on the plum, apricot, and orange trees. Spring bulbs like Crocus, Freesias, Grape-Hyacinth, Hyacinth, Tulips, Dutch Iris, and Spanish Bluebell. Spring vegetables like snowpeas and kale. Excellent cool-season annuals with Violas and Pansies. Rainy-season perennials like Cyclamen, India Hawthorne, Lewisia, Verbinium, Geranium, Rosemary and Lavender. Lots of foliage on the Amaryllis. Lots of Naturtiums. Lots of flowers on new succulents. Early flowers on summer perennials like Cuphea and Lantana.

Temperatures were above average on 24 days and the coldest day was only 40 degrees. Lots of intermittent clouds with average rainfall.

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