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Crews from the Arboretum and Public Garden planting the northernmost section of the La Rue Road median. Photo taken by Katie Hetrick 2.5.14.
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Opuntia aciculata var. orbiculata
Common Name(s): Chenille Prickly Pear
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Native Habitat: Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas - Mexico : Southern Texas - United States
Flower: Yellow
Cultivar Availability: Common Locally in Some Areas
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native to Mexico, forms rosettes of spoon-shaped fleshy frosty blue leaves outlined with with rose-red margins. Arching spikes with yellow bell-shaped flowers. In habitat, many Echeverias grow on rocky outcroppings at higher altitudes. In this habitat, the water drains quickly away from the roots of the plant, never allowing the plant to remain waterlogged. For this reason, it is essential in cultivation to use a very porous soil, which will allow quick drainage. Bright light is required to prevent "stretching" of Echeverias ("stretching" occurs when a moderately fast growing plant such as an Echeveria, is grown in dim light or over-fertilized, which causes overly lush growth that contributes to weak, pallid plants). Water thoroughly when soil is dry to the touch. Protect from frost.
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Austrocylindropuntia subulata cristata
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Synonym(s): Austrocylindropuntia subulata cristata, Opuntia subulata cristata
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Cultivar Availability: Common in some Areas
Bright & Sunny, what a perfect edition to a sun room or patio! This is also a custom Mothers Day order.
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Cereus forbesii monstrose
Common Name(s): Ming Thing
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Native Habitat:
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Cultivar Availability: Common Locally
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Family: Euphorbiaceae
Genus: Euphorbia milii var. splendens
Common Name(s): Crown of Thorns
Synonym(s): Euphorbia splendens
Native Habitat: Northeastern Madagascar
Flower: Red
Cultivar Availability: Common
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This year, one giant allium had several small bulbils growing at the base of the flower head. Two of them actually sent up flower stalks and bloomed!
My new garden plan is to replace as many high-water-usage plants as possible with easy-care low-water-usage plants.
This collection of Sempervivum Heuffelii represents my first step in that direction, and I couldn't be more pleased. They are low-maintenance and very beautiful.
Over the next year they will be joined by sedums, echeverias, ornamental grasses, native perennials and bulbs.
Update: Unfortunately, the sempervivums melted in our intense summer heat, as did the aeoniums. The echeverias, on the other hand, have thrived. Most of the sedums have done well, but some of them also need a cooler environment than we can provide during the summer months.
Most of the plants currently residing in my home garden are succulents, cactus, bulbs and a few Phalaenopsis orchids that I keep in the house. They are all drought-tolerant, heat-tolerant and beautiful.
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This is a resin whisky barrel that I picked up at Costco for $17.99. I added a "river" and some great succulents, much like everything in my garden, it starts with an idea and takes love, time and care to reach it's full bloom and potential. Give it a year, this is going to be gorgeous!
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Echinopsis ferox
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Synonym(s): Lobivia ferox, Pseudolobivia ferox, Lobivia longispina, Echinopsis longispina, Pseudolobivia longispina, Echinopsis potosina, Pseudolobivia potosina, Lobivia claeysiana, Lobivia hastifera, Trichocereus orurensis, Helianthocereus orurensis, Echinopsis orurensis, Lobivia aureolilacina, Lobivia backebergiana, Lobivia pachyacantha, Pseudolobivia wilkeae, Lobivia wilkeae, Echinopsis lecoriensis, Pseudolobivia leocoriensis, Lobivia horrida, Lobivia pictiflora, Lobivia varispina
Native Habitat: Argentina; Bolivia
Flower: Pink, White
Cultivar Availability: Common Locally in some Areas
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When many native plants in the Southwest landscape are in summer dormancy, Epilobium blooms brightly with its orange-red tubular flowers held above grayish-green to green foliage. Guaranteed to attract hummingbirds! California Fuchsia will provide your local hummingbirds a principal nectar source during the summer months.
This drought-tolerant California native prefers full sun, little water and excellent drainage.
Rare Vintage Rolodex Model 2400 Upcycled into a custom succulent arrangement for my clients Rustic Industrial style home.
Contact me at SarahBinSD@cox.net or @SarahBinSD for local SoCal orders.
Busy in the garden today, little succulent projects, I had these purple pots laying around, I had gotten them for .50 each at Loews, so I bought one more pot and made a new little grouping in my garden, along with working on the guitar project.
San Diego got some much needed rain last night, and the best part of a good rainstorm are the beautiful water droplets that are left behind.
I was finally able to visit The Succulent Cafe in Oceanside today, they are located at 322 N Cleveland St, in Oceanside, CA. I had been dying to go, I follow them on instagram and just had not gotten over there. There were tons of succulents, and gardens to purchase along with Teas and Coffees. The owner was super friendly and the joint is wall to wall succulents I was so excited to be there. There were huge living walls, and vertical gardens. I snapped a bazillion pics and enjoyed every second! I enjoyed a delicious iced tea of the day, and cannot wait until my next visit!!!
I made this dish this morning, using only cutting from plants I already had, I was able to create this awesome rainbow garden! I LOVE it!!!
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Mammillaria spinosissima subsp. tepoxtlana
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Synonym(s): Mammillaria auricoma, Mammillaria pitcayensis, Mammillaria pilcayensis, Mammillaria centraliplumosa, Mammillaria virginis, Mammillaria crassior, Mammillaria gasterantha, Mammillaria haasii
Native Habitat: Guerrero - Mexico
Flower Color(s): Pink
Cultivar Availability: Common
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Sedeveria 'Harry Butterfield, is considered to be a hybrid between Sedum morganianum ("Burro Tail") and Echeveria derenbergii. Loose rosettes of long, pointed fleshy glaucous blue-green leaves. Looks much like a rosette Echeveria at first, and then grows more columnar until the weight of the stem causes the plant to become somewhat pendant, more like the "Burro Tail". Porous soil with adequate drainage. Bright light with ample airflow. Water thoroughly when soil is dry to the touch. Protect from frost to prevent possible scarring.
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Mammillaria compressa subsp. compressa
Common Name(s): Mother of Hundreds
Synonym(s): Mammillaria conopea, Mammillaria esseriana, Mammillaria tolimensis, Mammillaria bernalensis, Mammillaria centralifera
Distribution: Aguascalientes, Hidalgo, Queretaro de Arteaga - Mexico
Flower: Pink
Cultivar Availability: Common
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LEARN ABOUT Western columbine [Aquilegea formosa] from Taylor Lewis, nursery manager. It's a great plant for low-water, shady areas in your garden AND its easy to propagate!
Agave americana (century plant, blue agave) has bright blue teeth on leaf margins that leave impressions on the new leaves that unfurl from its crown. I'd never noticed that the new teeth are really blue till taking this photo--later, they seem to age to brown.
Family: Crassulaceae
Genus: Adromischus cristatus
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Native Habitat: South Africa
Flower: White
Cultivar Availability: Common Locally in Some Areas
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If it's Espostoa lanata, all the following names are considered synonyms:
Cleistocactus lanatus
Espostoa sericata
Espostoa lanata var. sericata
Cereus sericatus
Espostoa procera
Espostoa laticornua
Cereus dautwitzii
Pilocereus dautwitzii,
Cereus lanatus,
Cereus lanatus ssp. sericatus
Pilocereus lanatus
Oreocereus lanatus
Cactus lanatus
Espostoa dautwitzii
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Cleistocactus hyalacanthus
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Synonym(s): Cleistocactus straussii, Cleistocactus jujuyensis
Native Habitat: Jujuy, Salta - Argentina : Chuquisaca, Santa Cruz, Tarija - Bolivia
Flower: Orange, Pink, Purple, Red
Cultivar Availability: Common Locally in Some Areas
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Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Gymnocalycium eurypleurum
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Native Habitat: Paraguay
Flower Color(s): Pink, White
Cultivar Availability: Common
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Conejo Buckwheat is endemic to the Conejo Valley and surrounding regions in Ventura County, California. Eriogonum crocatum has entered limited cultivation in native landscaping and xeriscaping. It likes sun and is drought tolerant.
Available for purchase at Tree of Life Nursery, San Juan Capistrano. CA
I was finally able to visit The Succulent Cafe in Oceanside today, they are located at 322 N Cleveland St, in Oceanside, CA. I had been dying to go, I follow them on instagram and just had not gotten over there. There were tons of succulents, and gardens to purchase along with Teas and Coffees. The owner was super friendly and the joint is wall to wall succulents I was so excited to be there. There were huge living walls, and vertical gardens. I snapped a bazillion pics and enjoyed every second! I enjoyed a delicious iced tea of the day, and cannot wait until my next visit!!!
Los Angeles Air Force Base's 61st Civil Engineering and Logistics Squadron uses drought-tolerant plants and landscaping known as "xeriscaping" to minimize water use as part of Air Force resource conservation efforts. Many xeriscaped areas on the base are only watered once a month or not at all. (U.S. Air Force photo by Sarah Corrice/RELEASED.)
Los Angeles Air Force Base's 61st Civil Engineering and Logistics Squadron uses drought-tolerant plants and landscaping known as "xeriscaping" to minimize water use as part of Air Force resource conservation efforts. Many xeriscaped areas on the base are only watered once a month or not at all. (U.S. Air Force photo by Sarah Corrice/RELEASED.)
For areas with at least some sun exposure and mostly dry soils, approaches to landscaping should be primarily based on a "dry meadow" approach. Discard the word "xeriscaping" (as well as its poorer cousin, "zeroscaping"). That is not what drought tolerance is about. "Waterwise" is also a term with little meaning. An obligate wetland plant is the most waterwise of all!
"Dryscaping" in upland areas is rather about using appropriate native plants (and preferably local genotypes although that was not the case here) and thinking like a meadow, one that you would like to walk through barefoot, and maybe even chase a few butterflies. The resulting area can still be just as lush as your current lawn which does not have to be Buffalo grass nor largely gravel with a couple of cactus pads. We need to largely eliminate noisy mowing crews and their energy consuming and pollution-creating lawn equipment along with all of those chemical treatments and wasted water, and replace lawn monocultures with far greater beauty and diversity as in the example above, and something that then helps make the natural world a much better and healthier place for us all to live.
Sept. 5, 2015, newly revegetated area ("restoration" would not be the correct term in this case), Jordan River Parkway Corridor, Murray, Salt Lake County, Utah.
“Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze but as they sway they connect at the roots.”—Jelaluddin Rumi from “Birdsong” and “The Essential Rumi”
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.”—Albert Einstein