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Woodland pond with small boat in water and dappled sunlight in environmentally-responsible, native plant sustainable garden, Mt Cuba Center Delaware

Family: Cactaceae

Genus: Mammillaria mystax

Common Name(s):

Synonym(s): Mammillaria crispiseta, Mammillaria casoi, Mammillaria huajuapensis, Mammillaria mixtecensis, Mammillaria atroflorens, Mammillaria erythra

Native Habitat: Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, Veracruz-Llave - Mexico

Flower: Pink, Red

Cultivar Availability: Common

 

R. Porch's Private Collection

Emerald Growers Nursery in Fallbrook, CA

When I asked about bamboo for a tropical look in a mediterranean climate, the owner took me to the back to have a look.

Dietes bicolor is a clump-forming rhizomatous perennial plant with long sword-like pale-green leaves, growing from multiple fans at the base of the clump. This species belongs to the Iridaceae family. Wikipedia

Dietes bicolor is a clump-forming rhizomatous perennial plant with long sword-like pale-green leaves, growing from multiple fans at the base of the clump. This species belongs to the Iridaceae family. Wikipedia

Dietes bicolor is a clump-forming rhizomatous perennial plant with long sword-like pale-green leaves, growing from multiple fans at the base of the clump. This species belongs to the Iridaceae family. Wikipedia

Fig trees are highly productive, Mediterranean natives perfect for growing in a California landscape. Black mission figs are one of the most common figs grown in California. For more information about growing fig trees visit GardenZeus.com.

Taken at the 25th Annual InterCity Show & Sale 2010 in the Los Angeles County Arboretum

A planting of sea holly.

Violet-magenta coloured flowers decorate this ice plant. There are so many different varieties it was difficult to identify. Am going to stick with ice plant (carpet weed). Included in a xeriscape in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Scenes from the Sherman Oaks Garden Tour 2018 -- For more photos and gardening content, visit A Gardener's Notebook with Douglas E. Welch

Stadacona Park, Victoria BC

This photo was UBC Botanical Garden Photo of the Day June 17, 2007

Scenes from the Sherman Oaks Garden Tour 2018 -- For more photos and gardening content, visit A Gardener's Notebook with Douglas E. Welch

Family: Crassulaceae

Genus: Sedum rubrotinctum

Common Name(s): Pork and Beans, Jelly Bean Plant

Synonym(s):

Native Habitat: Mexico

Flower: Red, Yellow

Cultivar Availability: Common

 

R. Porch's Private Collection

Photographed in Ramona, California, Caterpillar Phacelia is an annual; branched; and hairy plant with flowers in coiled racemes. Caterpillar phacelia is very common and abundant on dry slopes of the chaparral, and is also found in coastal sage scrub, open oak woodland and grassland. Ranges from San Luis Obispo County and Southern California to the edge of the desert, blooming from March to June.

New plants at Johnnye Merles!

September 2010

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Scenes from the Sherman Oaks Garden Tour 2018 -- For more photos and gardening content, visit A Gardener's Notebook with Douglas E. Welch

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