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Was walking across an parking lot landscape island and saw this fluffy coyote brush. the seed heads looked like dandelion seed heads. Totally surprising. One good gust of wind and they would all be gone. At least half of the plant was covered in a layer of seeds one inch thick.Tried my best to capture the images yet the seed heads were so thickly clustered they almost turned out blurry. Captured eleven images,all from the female variety.
Hybridizer Myron Kimnach, who headed Huntington's Desert Garden, created this species by crossing Crassula pyramidalis with Crassula falcata .
Photographed in the Desert Garden Conservatory (only open on Saturdays!) at the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.
Echeveria 'Topsy Turvey' beginning to flower in full sun surrounded by various sedums. Lower right corner, Sedum nussbaumerianum, lower left Sedum morganianum and behind that Sedum rubrotinctum.
Flowering leucospermum protea flower. Plant belonging to Proteaceae family with stunning inflorescences, prominent styles and grey green leathery leaves. This one is red with yellow tips
After our visit to the succulent cafe and walk on the pier, we consulted Yelp for a burger joint close by (the wait for Ruby's on the pier was almost an hour) and chose Ty's Burger Lounge. To my surprise they had an awesome outdoor garden with tons of succulents and a great spot to chill and eat what turned out to be fantastic hamburgers!!
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Gymnocalycium riojense subsp. piltziorum
Common Name(s):
Synonym(s): Gymnocalycium triacanthum, Gymnocalycium piltziorum, Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum
Native Habitat: Catamarca, La Rioja - Argentina
Flower: Pink, White
Cultivar Availability: Uncommon
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Digital original, July 10, 2014, Walnut Creek, California USA.
Full frame sensor, 105mm f2.8 macro lens @f11, 1/200sec, iso200
I saw this cactus recently on a garden tour in my neighborhood. Native to Mexico, there is a defiant este gallo pica quality, loosely translated means "don't mess with me."
Despite being one of the most popular cacti in cultivation, it is rare and critically endangered in the wild (Wikipedia).
Mediterranean garden on the Mar Vista garden tour this weekend. One of my favorite gardens on the tour. Wild, wholly and full of old world charm... feels like Tuscany. Originally installed in 2001 designed by Johanna Woollcott of Wild Gardens.
Hummingbird Sage is a low growing perennial Salvia with a ground-cover mounding height up to 2 feet (0.6 meters). It is native to Southern and Central California growing from sea level to 2,000 feet.
Salvia spathacea tolerates extreme conditions from intense heat to frost, full sun to shade, dry to wet conditions and clay to serpentine soil depending upon the variety and habitat. The pointed leaves are aromatic and sticky and by many accounts the plant is deer proof. This clumping, low-growing native spreads by underground rhizomes. The magenta flower spikes are borne on woody stems and are highly attractive to hummingbirds and butterflies.
When adapting Hummingbird Sage to the home garden, provide additional water during especially dry winter months and trim the plant to keep it tidy in the late summer and early fall.
A handful of maize seed, especially precious because it is of the improved, drought tolerant variety TAN 250, which yields even in times of drought. This was developed and registered for sale in Tanzania through CIMMYT's Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project, in partnership with Tanzanian seed company Tanseed International Limited. It is based on material from CIMMYT-Zimbabwe, CIMMYT-Mexico, and Tanzania.
For more about TAN 250 and the longstanding collaboration between Tanseed and CIMMYT, see CIMMYT's June 2009 e-news story "No maize, no life!" available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/newsletter/38-2009/119-genetic-resource....
For more about DTMA see: dtma.cimmyt.org.
Photo credit: Anne Wangalachi/CIMMYT.
Culinary and medicinal herbs are integrated into our landscape any chance I get. Less sun each year, means I have to grow more herbs in containers on our sunny patio. This is the first in a collection of tall and not so tall terracotta planted with a mix of herbs and other complimentary plants.
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Pilosocereus pachycladus
Common Name(s):
Synonym(s): Pseudopilocereus pachycladus, Pseudopilocereus azureus, Pilosocereus atroflavispinus, Pseudopilocereus atroflavispinus, Pilosocereus azureus, Pilosocereus oreus, Pseudopilocereus oreus, Pilosocereus pemambucoensis, Pseudopilocereus pernambucoensis, Pilosocereus splendidus, Pseudopilocereus spendidus, Pilosocereus superbus, Pseudopilocereus superbus, Pilosocereus cyaneus, Pilosocereus cenepequei, Pilosocereus schoebelii
Native Habitat: North eastern Brazil
Flower: White
Cultivar Availability: Common in some Areas
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There's something about this plant's subtle color gradations. . . sort of like a sunset seen through a heavy fog. Its flowers can be seen here.
California buckwheat is used medicinally where ever it grows. Native Californians and other Native Peoples use it primarily to treat headaches, stomach problems, diarrhea, and wounds. Both the leaves and roots are used, fresh and dried. For colds, coughs and sore throats and pre-menstrual bloating a mild tea is prepared. A stronger decoction from roots was traditionally used for diarrhea, stomach troubles and to ‘clean the system’. A strong tea from the leaves is reported to cure headaches and a decoction of young flowers is used as an eyewash. A poultice made from dried roots or fresh leaves and flowers was formerly applied to wounds. For medicinal uses, older established plants are reported to be more efficacious. The small seeds and young shoots are edible. The leaves were traditionally used to line granaries to keep acorns dry. Tongva native people used the stems to pierce ears.
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.
A small section of a container garden at Yamaguchi Bonsai Nursery on Sawtelle Boulevard in West Los Angeles.
Thanks, everyone, for helping this make EXPLORE Aug 17, 2008 #402
Rashid Said Mpinga, a farmer in Tanzania’s Morogoro District, holds up ears of TAN 250 maize variety, which he grew between March and June 2009. "Without good quality maize seed, you cannot earn enough, you cannot have life!" he says, and he should know. At 79, he has been growing maize for nearly half a century. "Over the years, I've used many maize varieties, and they worked very well when we had more reliable rainfall. These days, most of these varieties are no longer suitable." Mpinga refers particularly to the previous two maize seasons, characterized by high temperatures and irregular rainfall.
TAN 250 is one of two improved, drought tolerant varieties recently developed and registered for sale in Tanzania, through CIMMYT's Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project. They represent years of fruitful collaboration between CIMMYT and Tanzanian seed company Tanseed International. TAN 250 and TAN 254 are based on ZM 401 and ZM 721, varieties selected for tolerance to drought and low soil fertility conditions by CIMMYT at Chiredzi, Zimbabwe, and also contain material from CIMMYT-Mexico and from Tanzania.
For more about the collaboration between Tanseed and CIMMYT, see CIMMYT's June 2009 e-news story "No maize, no life!" available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/about-us/media-resources/newsletter/pre....
For more about DTMA see: dtma.cimmyt.org.
Photo credit: Anne Wangalachi/CIMMYT.
Planted a garden for my friends Matt & Lisa last fall. Quick snapshot of one of my favorite plants in the garden, Lion's Tail. This South African native is best grown with full sun in USDA zones 10 & 11.
The distinctive yellow spines on these cacti look especially dramatic when backlit by the sun. Photo by John Trager.
Drought-tolerant plants from our Fall Plant Sale, Oct. 24–26, 2014.
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
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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!!!
California native plant front yard garden in urban drought tolerant low maintenance small space lawn alternative
Family: Cactaceae
Genus:Ariocarpus retusus
Common Name(s): Living Rock Cactus, Seven Stars
Synonym(s): Anhalonium prismaticum, Anhalonium elongatum, Ariocarpus elongatus, Anhalonium areolosum, Anhalonium pulvilligerum, Ariocarpus fulvilligeris, Mammillaria furfuracea, Anhalonium furfuraceum, Ariocarpus furfuraceus, Anhalonium trigonum, Ariocarpus trigonus, Ariocarpus retusus, Ariocarpus confusus
Native Habitat: Coahuila de Zaragoza, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas - Mexico
Flower Color(s): White, Yellow
Cultivar Availability: Common
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Stumbled upon this unique and majestic plant at a local nursery. Labeled as "Variegated Brazilian Aloe." It is actually a member of the Agave family. Additional photos show how this could make a striking specimen planting, especially for drought tolerant gardens. Grows 3 - 6 feet tall and just as wide. A huge flowering column appears during the summer months that produces offshoots of fragrant flowers. The leaves are soft and tender, unlike most members of the Agavaceae family. A very unique and dramatic plant.