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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
California Boxthorn is native to the Coastal sage scrub and coastal bluffs along the coast of Southern California to northern Baja California and the northern and southern Channel Islands. It's natural population is being reduced by development over its habitat. Perennial shrub with large thorns, little oval shaped leaves and little purple flowers with 4 petals.
Pineapple guava, Feijoa sellowiana (Acca sellowiana) drought tolerant shrub with edible flowers in California garden
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
Leucadendron 'Safari Sunset', drought tolerant Australian native evergreen shrub flowering in San Francisco Botanical Garden
Pineapple guava, Feijoa sellowiana (Acca sellowiana) drought tolerant shrub with edible flowers in California garden
Chilean Wine Palms Jubaea chilensis in summer-dry garden designed by Cristobal Marinovic, Panquehue, Chile
Family: AGAVACEAE
Genus: Dasylirion wheeleri
Common Name(s): Desert Spoon, Blue Sotol, Sotol Wheeler, Common Desert Spoon, Saw Yucca, Desert Spoon, Spoon Flower, Common Sotol
Synonym(s):
Native Habitat: Chihuahua, Sonora Mexico: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas USA
Flower: White, Yellow
Cultivar Availability: Common in some Areas
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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
Scenes from the Sherman Oaks Garden Tour 2018 -- For more photos and gardening content, visit A Gardener's Notebook with Douglas E. Welch
Description:
70-90cm x 70cm wide. This is such a tough plant, being equally at home in both the xeric and traditional gardens. Not picky about its growing conditions, it has showy rose-red flowers that are continuous from late spring through summer, if cut back. It prefers a well-drained garden soil.
Zones 4-9