Beauty.

I have Pink jasmine planted all over. Climbing fences, on the shed... evergreen, flowers profusely, smells amazing.
from Wikipedia: Jasminum polyanthum is well-known as a house plant in the USA and Europe. It can also grow in the garden, when climate conditions are good. USDA hardiness zones: 8 - 11. It grows fast and easy and flowers nicely[1]. Outside it can be used to cover walls and fences etc. It can grow in sun and light shade as well. It is propagated by seed and by suckers. Jasminum polyanthum was given the Award of Garden Merit (AGM) by the RHS in 1993[2]. It was chosen on the Bicentenary list of 200 plants for the RHS: “This popular houseplant is an easily-grown, evergreen, half-hardy climber with loose panicles in summer of many strongly-fragrant pink-backed, white, trumpet-shaped flowers. It does not suffer pest or disease problems and is simple to propagate.”[3]

I wouldn't have believed that at first, then one day I found I had a bunch of layered rootings in the bark around the kids play structure, which was cool, because it meant a bunch of baby jasmine for friends...now a few years later as I am weeding I find not only layered rootings but what resembles extensive electrical wiring - like cables funning along the fence line, just tons and tons of shooting runners, very difficult to control. I don't know if it's just due to benign neglect, and that if you stayed on top of it you wouldn't have this problem, or whether it is, as they say, hugely invasive.

I still love it, it's just not as simple to control either the top growth or the runners as it seems at first.

Matilija Poppy, The Fried Egg Plant

(Romneya Coulteri, native to California) Looks like crepe paper, absolutely beautiful huge blooms. This one's still in the pot, thinking of planting it near the deck because I want to SEE it - AND they are very fragrant, I hadn't realized that before. I have another one planted in the far back, and it has migrated under the fence into the alley, so near the deck might not be such a good idea. A little further out...
Care - Once established, Matilija poppy doesn't need fertilizing or extra water.
Cut old stems back to the ground in late spring using bypass pruners. Propagate by dividing the rootball or, from seed; direct sow outdoors in fall. Bag seedheads to capture ripening seed. Allow pods to dry on plant; break open to collect seeds.
Interesting note, though - Very much a Fire plant, this native of dry, California canyons is often found in burned areas. These seeds are a challenge to germinate. Since this plant's seeds are triggered to germinate by smoke, one way to get them to germinate faster is to sprinkle them lightly with moist soil, cover that with pine sawdust, and light the covering (don't use any accelerants). Burning that continues for at least 15 minutes is best. Water when the fire is out to wash the smoke chemicals down to the seeds, since it is the smoke rather than the fire that induces germination. A less effective way is to burn pine sawdust, mix it with potting soil, moisten, and plant seeds in this mixture. A third method is to smoke the planting medium with burning pine sawdust.

Passion flower!

Homegrown, no attribution necessary. Planted a couple of weeks ago. Need to train it up the fence.

A few years later and it has taken over. Covered the fence, and climbing up the house. Going to cut it back severely. See what happens. It's beautiful, though. Lush and the flowers are awesome.

Cutting back the jasmine has been a massive undertaking, it has sent out cables almost the entire length of the property.

The Equinox Rose

I call it the Equinox Rose.
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But it's real name is Souvenir de Madame Leonie Viennot. And it blooms like crazy in late May every year. I took cuttings and it roots like crazy, too, and covers a fence in no time. Absolutely one of the best of all time.Maybe the scent varies by region, I would define it as delicately TEA scented.

It's an Heirloom Tea Rose...Loose tea rose-shaped fragrant flowers are pale yellow shaded with coppery pink. Honey scented flowers cover the entire plant in wild profusion... a vigorous hardy grower...12'-20'...immense flowers of grapefruit pink and gold, such a spectacle in bloom I have heard people say they would give anything to possess it...essentially a once bloomer, occasional rebloom, outstanding fragrance...

Mme Leonie Viennot was the wife of a small breeder, with only one rose credited to his name, a Hybrid Perpetual, Maréchal Vaillant, which he produced in collaboration with Jamain in 1861. Alexandre Bernaix, acknowledged M. Viennot by naming a rose after his wife, a common compliment.

Mme Leonie, is the supreme climbing Tea rose. She is very long lived, vigorous and healthy. Her blooms are sublime, a lovely rich pink with undertones of primrose yellow and copper. She has large loosely shaped blooms, with many petals and is sweetly fragrant. She is one of the first to flower in spring, and repeats sporadically until autumn. Her foliage is often large, plentiful, mid-dark green, long and pointed, very much that of a Tea.

Released in 1898, the parentage is reported as Gloire de Dijon x unknown seedling

What's blooming?

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Joseph's Coat Rose, Golden Gate Rhododenron (they go well together)

Apple Trees blooming, Lilacs still blooming but fading, the Taurus Rhodie is done, Watsonias are starting to bloom.

Goldfinches all over the place, burning through the Niger Thistle. Baby birds in the birdhouses clamoring for food...