Getty Center/ Poppies in the Circle Garden

This summer in the Circle Garden at the Getty Center a variety of poppies are blooming.

Different colors

and forms,

some are California Poppies,

others are from the Old World.

This one is an Afghanistan Poppy, very popular with the bees.

Getty Center/ Blooming in the Circle Garden

There is a wild profusion 

of flowers

in the Circle Garden.

I like to see varieties

of

flowers

that I have never seen before.

Like a purple petunia with white spots!

Getty Center/ Circle Garden Plants

Along the upper paths to the Circle Garden are white Crepe Myrtle trees with 

Society Garlic growing underneath.

Every time I visit the garden,

different plants are growing and blooming.

There are mixtures of

colors and textures composed

the way an artist would do a painting.

The Getty Center/ Circle Garden

The Circle Garden, designed by Robert Irwin is the most variable of the Getty Center Gardens.

The flowers change with the season.  Here Sweet Peas are growing on the railings.

The pathways spiral down.

The beds are filled with

plants that grow in mounds, or 

sprawl, or

climb upward like the Sweet Peas.

The Getty Center/ Bougainvillea Bowers

This view looks at the

Bougainvillea Bowers

designed by Robert Irwin

so the vines would be supported and

the flowers would 

spill outward.

June Visit to the Getty

On a grey morning with "June Gloom" I went to the Getty Center.

The slow walk up the hill

allows views of the buildings and sculpture.

On the first level are places to sit,

plantings and a sculpture by

Jack Zajac,

titled: "Big Skull and Horns in Two Parts."  

Early June in my Neighborhood

June is a flowery month in many places.

In my neighborhood these plants are blooming.