
There’s a lot of brown around here: brown cliffs, brown beach, even brown, rain-starved shrubs. So it’s delightful to see these bursts of colors, whether poppies, daisies, birds-of-paradise, the newly blooming agapanthus, or these bottle-brush varieties. It’s May 1, and this shrub looks like it wants to decorate for Christmas, all red and green and snowy white. I’ll take it!