Hey, what do you know! There’s a happy yellow flower blooming on the NoID opuntia next to my front door…
Funny, as it just recently occurred to me that I’d managed to place a pair of yellow bloomers on either side of the front porch, and I wasn’t even thinking of the opuntia. On the north side, Bletilla ochracea ‘Chinese Butterfly’.
When I bought this orchid it was dormant, and labeled as Bletilla striata, which would have been pink-blooming. I was thrilled to end up with the yellow version.
On the south side of the porch, Santolina chamaecyparissus ‘Lemon Queen’. The flowers are past their prime, but hopefully you get the idea.
Other yellows in the front garden include multiple Yucca filamentosa ‘Color Guard’, a moving cast of blooming Verbascum (all volunteers, I’m never sure where one will pop up) and Trachelospermum asiaticum ‘Ogon Nishiki’, one just visible to the far right in this photo.
