The EllGab Garden

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Out on an EllGab Neighborhood walk.  Came across this shrub that you almost needed sunglasses to look at.
(Click on the top photo for a closer look.)
 

 

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The 4-8-24 solar eclipse as seen from the EllGab Garden.  That's as much as we got here on the West Coast.

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The official EllGab Garden forsythia plant that sits out front.  I planted that thing many years back.  Purchased it from a mail order garden outfit that was sold off and turned into an apartment complex.  This guy (or gal) is hardy.  The sewer line had to be replaced about twenty plus years ago and the plant was almost completely dug up for the new pipes.  It took a number of years but it managed to struggle back.

Then the power company went to replace an old telephone pole with the new one shown in photo.  They drilled a hole down next to where the old pole was still sitting and in the process, totally demolished the sewer line.  They fixed things up of course, but the forsythia was dug up once again.  Slowly, year by year, it grew back, and this is the best it has ever looked.   
 

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Spotted this dark cloud, heavy with moisture, heading towards the EllGab Garden.  But by the time it was overhead it had dried out and we didn't get a single drop of rain from it.

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The return of the tobacco plant.  This plant (a glorified weed, I guess you could call it) returns every spring.  I call it a tobacco plant because as kids, we would take the dried seeds from similar looking weeds, wrap them in a piece of paper and try to smoke them like a cigarette.  Thankfully, the highly acidic smoke would cause us to back off before taking a puff.  I'm fond of the plant though, and allow it to grow to it's full length, which is about three or four feet.  Right now it's about ankle high.  Perhaps this year I will get my Weeds of the West book off the shelf and find out what it's really called.