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Farmer Edina Chioreso shows off some of her fine crop of healthy maize ears, of a new drought tolerant variety she has been testing out. She participates in on-farm trials of varieties developed through the Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project, a CIMMYT-led partnership involving researchers from 13 nations in sub-Saharan Africa that aims to accelerate drought tolerant maize development and deployment, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Where Chioreso lives in Murewa District, Zimbabwe, lack of rain is usually the biggest problem for maize growers. However, heavy rains during the 2011 growing season illustrated how important it is for drought tolerant varieties to give high yields not just when water is scarce, but whatever the weather. The new varieties proved able to hold their own in 2011, producing up to 25% higher yields than commercially-available varieties.
Photo credit: M. DeFreese/CIMMYT.
For more information, see CIMMYT's 2011 e-news story "Too much of a good thing: Drought-tolerant maize faces rain aplenty in Zimbabwe," available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/newsletter/511-2011/1218-too-much-of-a-....
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Mammillaria matudae
Common Name(s): Thumb Cactus
Synonym(s): Mammillaria compacticaulis
Native Habitat: Mexico (state) - Mexico
Flower: Pink
Cultivar Availability: Common
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Scar below the flowers was caused by a hot glued on straw flower...
I planted this a few months ago and posted a pic, it has really filled in and looks great, so I thought I would post an update. Part of the fun of succulents, is planting something, having a vision and cultivating it to fruition. These "Burro Tail" sedum are hearty and easy to care for, they will drape and trail out of pots and hanging baskets, an easy and drought tolerant way to add beauty and color to your living space!
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Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Curio rowleyanus
Common Name(s): String of Pearls, String of Beads, String of Peas
Synonym(s): Senecio rowleyanus (basionym)
Native Habitat: Eastern Cape, Western Cape - South Africa
Flower: White
Cultivar Availability: Common
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Succulents on a patio table, ready to be planted. After some rain went out to the garden searching for green and red to photograph together; stumbled upon this pair. In the distance a graptosedum that contains both colors.
A select palette of about ten plant varieties surround this patio garden and round out the walkways below.
A trip to the nursery with my camera yields photos like this. I need to take my camera with me more often; thanks Julian for encouraging me to do so. Photo taken at my neighborhood nursery, Sunset Merrihew Gardens in Santa Monica. I look forward to adding this plant to our garden.
Natural beauty in every season. An educational tool for lifecycle study. A natural prairie habitat, open to the public. Located behind the school, East side. Recently underwent restoration by Ron Frazier.
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Senecio cylindricus
Common Name(s):
Synonym(s): Senecio vitalis
Native Habitat: South Africa
Flower: Yellow
Cultivar Availability: Common in some Areas
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Does anyone know the name of the California native shrub with the yellow flowers? They were in bloom all over the place.
The gardens around many newer buildings in the Palm Springs area rely on water-thrifty natives, seasonal color, the sculptural forms of desert plants and textures of local rock.
Farmer Edina Chioreso shows off some of her fine crop of healthy maize ears, of a new drought tolerant variety she has been testing out. She participates in on-farm trials of varieties developed through the Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project, a CIMMYT-led partnership involving researchers from 13 nations in sub-Saharan Africa that aims to accelerate drought tolerant maize development and deployment, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Where Chioreso lives in Murewa District, Zimbabwe, lack of rain is usually the biggest problem for maize growers. However, heavy rains during the 2011 growing season illustrated how important it is for drought tolerant varieties to give high yields not just when water is scarce, but whatever the weather. The new varieties proved able to hold their own in 2011, producing up to 25% higher yields than commercially-available varieties.
Photo credit: M. DeFreese/CIMMYT.
For more information, see CIMMYT's 2011 e-news story "Too much of a good thing: Drought-tolerant maize faces rain aplenty in Zimbabwe," available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/newsletter/511-2011/1218-too-much-of-a-....
Uploaded for this blog entry... Hercules, Hercutherm, Hybridize This and Hercules and for this new group... HybridizeThis.
I have had this Aloe for almost 20 years now....I am just over 6' tall. My biggest and most impressive Aloe in my collection! I have it potted in a huge, 36" cement container...not moving it anytime soon.
According to this article by Gary Lyons, then curator of the Huntington's Desert Garden, the Huntington displays something like 40 or so of the 45 known species of yucca. I have no idea which one this is, but the delicate beauty of the flower spike belies just how tough these plants are.
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
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North view from my studio garden several years ago in late afternoon sun. This variety of African aloe grows tall in an upright form with orange flowers throughout the year. Various aeoniums and echeveria surround this large succulent. Hummingbirds love to interact with this aloe so I placed it in view of a neighbor's window so they can witness the wildlife display.
This plant was once in a pot on my deck, but it hated its pot. So I placed it right here by the wall of this apartment building, just up the street. The building manager planted it exactly where I placed it and now this is what it looks like, years later. Have you ever seen a tree like this?
Goldenrod explodes in flower in the hottest and driest part of late summer. An educational tool for lifecycle study. A natural prairie habitat, open to the public. Located behind the school, East side. Recently underwent restoration by Ron Frazier.
A Kalanchoe luciae glows in the afternoon sunlight at the Huntington. It's often mislabeled K. thrysifolia, which has shorter, broader leaves and doesn't turn as red in winter.
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Gymnocalycium baldianum
Common Name(s):
Synonym(s): Echinocactus baldianum, Echinocactus sanguiniflorus, Gymnocalycium sanguiniflorum
Native Habitat: Catamarca - Argentina
Flower: Pink, Red
Cultivar Availability: Common
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This tranquil, intimate oasis features variegated Phormium - New Zealand Flax, Kniphofia bressingham - Red Hot Poker (could be the Sunbeam variety) and Anigozanthos flavidus - Kangaroo Paws. The front garden below (via Google street view) contains many drought tolerant specimens that blend well with the plant choices in the neighboring garden.
A variety of Echeveria in the Crassulaceae family of succulents. Will produce exotic looking orange and red flowers.
Super excited to have this guy spiking for the first time...flowers should be open any day now.
Originally purchased from Cal Orchid in a 6" pot!
Image taken April 4, 2018, Walnut Creek, California USA. Same area of garden as (5), but different season, 8+ months later, slightly different angle, and longer lens.
Festival Burgundy cordyline, an extremely drought-tolerant foliage plant, lends an architectural air to any setting, as can be seen in this formal garden patio. Here, Festival Burgundy shines in a neoclassical urn container underplanted with white lobelia next to a neoclassical bench, artemisia and palm trees.
This plant was once in a pot on my deck, but it hated its pot. So I placed it right here by the wall of this apartment building, just up the street. The building manager planted it exactly where I placed it and now this is what it looks like, years later. Have you ever seen a tree like this?
Jorge Coronel, who leads the work of the cereals program of Ecuador’s National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIAP) in southern Ecuador, examines a handful of grain of the variety "INIAP Vivar 2010". Vivar was released in 2010 and named in honor of the late CIMMYT scientist Hugo Vivar. It is among the first products of a campaign launched in 2008 to renew Ecuador’s diminished wheat production.
Vivar gives high yields of good-quality grain, and is tolerant to drought, which has become increasingly common. It is far more resilient than earlier varieties under the rugged conditions of mountainous southern Ecuador, offering a consistent yield advantage of about 80%. It is based on a line developed by CIMMYT, and its good drought tolerance probably comes from a line in its pedigree that resulted from crosses made at CIMMYT between domesticated wheat and related wild species. Prior to its 2010 release, farmer leaders working with INIAP had been testing Vivar for several years in their own plots. Its performance bodes well for INIAP’s work to reduce Ecuador’s dependence on imported wheat, but could also generate extra income for farmers.
Until 2008, wheat research in Ecuador was in decline, as was wheat cultivation, thanks to cheap imports. While other staples were relatively unaffected, the global food price crisis of 2008 revealed this hole in the country's food security. When wheat prices spiked, Ecuador's government cushioned the blow by temporarily subsidizing imported wheat at great cost. Its long-term response was to institute a vigorous program to revitalize the nation's wheat production. Working with INIAP, the government set out realistic goals and provided about USD 4.3 million over 5 years for intensified wheat research and promotion.
The central aim of the new initiative is to expand Ecuador’s wheat area to about 50,000 hectares, enough to satisfy at least 30% of domestic demand, up from 3%. Less than two years after the 2008 decision, INIAP was already releasing improved varieties, the first in Ecuador since the early 1990s, including Vivar for southern Ecuador and San Jacinto for the country’s central and northern zones.
INIAP was able to release Vivar and San Jacinto so soon after the start of the initiative for two reasons. One was the government’s decision to thoroughly refurbish INIAP’s research infrastructure as well as to hire and train dozens more scientists and technicians. Equally crucial was CIMMYT’s unswerving support for local wheat research even during its time of relative dormancy in Ecuador. If that service had ceased, INIAP’s new wheat team would have been forced to start essentially from scratch, adding many years to the process of variety development.
Photo credit: Nathan Russell/CIMMYT.
For more information, see CIMMYT's 2010 e-news story "Ecuador's wheat awakening," available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/about-us/media-resources/newsletter/872....
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Genus: Euphorbia susannae
Common Name(s): Suzanne's Spurge
Synonym(s): Euphorbia suzannae
Native Habitat: South Africa
Flower Color(s): Green
Cultivar Availability: Uncommon
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'Dark Dancer' Bronze Dutch Clover (Trifolium repens 'Atropurpureum')
Bugleweed (Ajuga reptans)
Green Spice Coral Bells (Heuchera americana)
Virginia Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana glauca)
Creeping Cinquefoil (Potentilla verna var. nana)
I love "overplanting" groundcovers. They weave together to create an interesting carpet of different colors and textures. However, it's important the plants have similiar growing requirements (light, soil, moisture) and spreading habits so the more aggressive plant(s) don't overtake the slower growing ones.
This is a shade garden and receives only a couple hours of direct sunlight per day.
Gulf muhly grass (Muhlenbergia capillaris) grows at Cooper Riverside Park near the GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico, November 27, 2015, in downtown Mobile, Alabama. The perennial grass blooms September through November and is drought tolerant. (Photo by Carmen K. Sisson/Cloudybright)
A Chinese farmer holds hybrid maize kernels of the Yunrui 88 variety, developed by the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (YAAS), Yunnan Province, China, using CIMMYT and local germplasm. It is high-yielding, resistant to important diseases, and drought tolerant, and farmers report that the ears can be stored for longer and are better for animal feed. It was released in 2009 and is now the most popular hybrid in the area. CIMMYT has a strong and healthy collaboration with YAAS, an important part of the center's growing relationship with China.
Photo credit: Michelle DeFreese/CIMMYT.
For more about CIMMYT and China, see CIMMYT's blog story at: blog.cimmyt.org/?p=6188.
Flower Carpet roses (Scarlet, in center) and Festival Burgundy cordyline, two drought-tolerant plants in a water-wise Mediterranean garden.
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Disocactus flagelliformis
Common Name(s): Flor De Latigo, Floricuerno, Junco, Junquillo, Nopalillo, Rattail Cactus
Synonym(s): Cactus flagelliformis, Cereus flagelliformis, Aporocactus flagelliformis, Cereus leptophis, Aporocactus flagriformis
Native Habitat: Hidalgo, Oaxaca - Mexico
Flower: Pink, Red
Cultivar Availability: Common
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