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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
R. Porch's Private Collection
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
R. Porch's Private Collection
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
R. Porch's Private Collection
An Ecuadorian farmer holds a spike of the wheat variety "INIAP Vivar 2010", released in 2010 and named in honor of the late CIMMYT scientist Hugo Vivar. The variety 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 the National Institute of Agricultural Research (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....
Farmer Bamusi Stambuli and his wife Sagulani, from Balaka, Malawi, display their store full of maize ears, of drought tolerant variety ZM 309. Together they have 7 children and 5 grandchildren. In April 2010, Stambuli harvested nearly 1.8 tons of ZM 309 from his 0.6-hectare plot, around double his previous yields. “I will now be able to feed my family for a whole year,” he says proudly.
ZM 309 was developed specifically for Malawi’s drought-prone areas with infertile soils, based on material from CIMMYT-Mexico, CIMMYT-Zimbabwe, and Malawi's national program, in a collaboration between CIMMYT, Malawi’s Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, and the Chitedze Research Station, through CIMMYT's Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project. The research was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. ZM 309 was officially launched in March 2009, and is known locally as Msunga banja, Chichewa for "that which takes care of or feeds the family."
For more information, see CIMMYT's 2010 e-news story "Maize farmers and seed businesses changing with the times in Malawi," available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/about-us/media-resources/newsletter/715....
For more about DTMA see: dtma.cimmyt.org/.
Photo credit: Anne Wangalachi/CIMMYT.
Our new patio garden is planted. A few finishing touches remain: adding the Spanish Flame vine, shredded redwood bark and decorative thyme.
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A blue elderberry tree in bloom stands above a California Native garden. Looking clockwise is Cal. Wild Grape "Roger's Red," in the lower right are assorted wildflowers including Elegant Clarkia and Blue-eyed grasses, just left of those is a Skylark Ceanothus and behind that, in the lower center, is Bee's Bliss sage and California poppies. There are a lot of others, too. Note the silver plant tags for each.
This is taken on the morning of Santa Clara County's Going Native Garden Tour, day two.
The Going Native Garden Tour promotes planting locally-native plants. All foliage seen here are drought tolerant and bee/bug/bird friendly.
Festival Burgundy cordyline, an strappy-leaf architectural foliage plant and Bonfire begonias - drought- and heat-tolerant in the sun and a color dazzler in the shade - both make wonderful container plants, simply as solo plantings.
This is part of the landscaping project that my wife and I have been working on. I did the grunt work, and she did the planting and arrangement of the succulents and smaller cactus. The cages you see are temporary rabbit protection. Our owls need to focus more on the rabbits for a while, in my humble opinion.
A maize hybrid being tested on drought screening plots at the Thai Department of Agriculture’s Nakhon Sawan Field Crops Research Center, where screening is carried out in the dry season to allow fine control of water availability. CIMMYT has a long relationship with Thailand, supplying materials to for inclusion in the national breeding program, and between March 2005 and October 2008 Thailand participated in the Asian Maize Network (AMNET), which was funded by the Asian Development Bank and led by CIMMYT, and brought together scientists from five Southeast Asian countries to develop and deliver drought tolerant maize varieties for poor farmers in drought-prone regions.
As part of AMNET, the Thai breeders crossed lines from the national program with new drought tolerant materials provided each year by CIMMYT. “We screen for drought tolerance in the dry season and downy mildew resistance in the rainy season, and take the best materials forward each year,” explained Pichet Grudloyma, senior maize breeder, in 2008. “We now have many promising hybrids coming through.” Funding from the project also had a big impact on the team’s capacity to screen those hybrids. “We had a small one to two hectare facility before; now we have four hectares with a perfect controlled-irrigation system. Because we’ve been in AMNET, we have good varieties and good fieldwork and screening capacity.” Thailand also took on a role in seed distribution, receiving and sharing seed from the AMNET member countries, and testing the varieties on the drought screening plots at the Research Center.
For Grudloyma, this collaborative approach was a big change. “We’ve learned a lot and gained a lot from our friends in different countries. We each have different experiences, and when we share problems we can adapt knowledge from others to our own situations.” The Thai researchers can come up with many examples of things they have learned from their AMNET partners. “We learned how to evaluate farmer preferences better from the Philippines team,” said Amara Traisiri, an entomologist working on responding to these preferences. “We now use their method in all our field trials with farmers and we’re getting a more accurate picture of what farmers want.” This information caused the group to include ease of hand harvest as another trait to consider in their breeding program, after realizing how important it is to farmers.
The project built capacity and relationships that will endure, according to Grudloyma. “Our station is now very good at working with drought,” he said, “and we’ll continue cooperation and providing germplasm. We already have plans for collaboration with China and Vietnam.” CIMMYT’s role in providing germplasm and access to new knowledge and technologies was vital, as was its leadership. “It’s very hard to get hold of germplasm from anywhere except CIMMYT,” said Grudloyma. “It’s also difficult to come together: we needed an international organization to coordinate and facilitate regional interaction. With CIMMYT everything is easier.”
Photo credit: Eloise Phipps/CIMMYT.
For more about Thailand and AMNET, see CIMMYT's March 2008 e-news story "New maize and new friendships to beat Thai drought," available online at: www.cimmyt.org/newsletter/37-2008/159-new-maize-and-new-f....
This beautiful aloe hasn't grown much after several years in a 4" pot, nor has it flowered yet. Bright sunlight brings out the red coloration, a reaction in some succulents to being stressed.
If anyone can positively identify it (A. vanbalenii, maybe?), please post a comment.
Farmer Bamusi Stambuli, from Balaka, Malawi, shows off a healthy ear of drought tolerant maize variety ZM 309. He and his wife Sagulani have 7 children and 5 grandchildren. In April 2010, Stambuli harvested nearly 1.8 tons of ZM 309 from his 0.6-hectare plot, around double his previous yields. “I will now be able to feed my family for a whole year,” he says proudly.
ZM 309 was developed specifically for Malawi’s drought-prone areas with infertile soils, based on material from CIMMYT-Mexico, CIMMYT-Zimbabwe, and Malawi's national program, in a collaboration between CIMMYT, Malawi’s Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, and the Chitedze Research Station, through CIMMYT's Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project. The research was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. ZM 309 was officially launched in March 2009, and is known locally as Msunga banja, Chichewa for "that which takes care of or feeds the family."
For more information, see CIMMYT's 2010 e-news story "Maize farmers and seed businesses changing with the times in Malawi," available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/about-us/media-resources/newsletter/715....
For more about DTMA see: dtma.cimmyt.org/.
Photo credit: Anne Wangalachi/CIMMYT.
Monarchs and Swallowtails reproduce every year in the garden.
The educational tool for elementary grade lifecycle study. A natural prairie habitat, open to the public. Located behind the school, East side. Recently underwent restoration by Ron Frazier.
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?
Haworthia cymbiformis variegata - Variegated Window Plant
Dope!
The essence of this plant doesn't really show up well in this photo, but anyway, the leaves are almost translucent. Really unique and a pretty specimen.
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Echinopsis ferox
Common Name(s):
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
R. Porch's Private Collection
Fabaceae (pea, or legume family) » Prosopis juliflora
PROS-oh-pis -- ancient Greek name for burdock
joo-lih-FLOR-uh -- having flowers like Albizia julibrissin (Mimosa)
commonly known as: algaroba, mesquite • Hindi: जंगली कीकर jungli kikar, काबुली कीकर kabuli-kikar, विलायती बबुल vilayati babul • Kannada: ಬೆಳ್ಳರಿ ಜಲಿ bellari jali • Marathi: विलायती शमी vilayati shami • Tamil: வன்னி vanni • Telugu: ముల్ల తుమ్మ mulla thumma
Native to: West Indies, central America, and northern South America
References: Flowers of India • Purdue University • World Agroforestry Centre
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Echinopsis ancistrophora subsp. arachnacantha
Common Name(s):
Synonym(s): Pseudolobivia ancistrophora, Echinopsis polyancistra, Pseudolobivia polyancistra, Echinopsis hamatacantha, Pseudolobivia hamatacantha, Echinopsis kratochviliana, Echinopsis leucorhodantha, Pseudolobivia leucorhodantha, Echinopsis pelecyrhachis, Pseudolobivia pelecyrhachis, Echinopsis torrecillasensis, Pseudolobivia torrecillasensis, Lobivia arachnacantha, Echinopsis arachnacantha, Lobivia pojoensis, Echinopsis ancistrophora, Lobivia cardenasiana, Echinopsis cardenasiana
Native Habitat: Salta, Argentina; Tarija, Bolivia
Flower: Orange, Yellow
Cultivar Availability: Common
R. Porch's Private Collection
Ears of the drought tolerant maize variety ZM 309 grown during a trial in Zimbabwe. ZM 309 was developed for drought-prone areas with infertile soils in Southern Africa, based on material from CIMMYT-Mexico, CIMMYT-Zimbabwe, and Malawi's national program, in a collaboration between CIMMYT, Malawi’s Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, and the Chitedze Research Station, through CIMMYT's Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project. It has been released for sale in Malawi and Zimbabwe. The research was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation.
For more about ZM 309, see CIMMYT's 2010 e-news story "Maize farmers and seed businesses changing with the times in Malawi," available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/about-us/media-resources/newsletter/715....
For more about DTMA see: dtma.cimmyt.org/.
Photo credit: CIMMYT.
Kenyan farmer Philip Ngolania shows off his healthy maize crop, June 2011. East Africa in 2011 is struggling with the worst drought in more than half a century, pushing food prices in Kenya to dangerously high levels beyond the reach of the poor. However, drought-tolerant CIMMYT varieties provide hope. In February, Ngolania planted a variety developed by CIMMYT and Kenyan research partners specifically for dry conditions. It has thrived, even with little rainfall. Ngolania thinks he will get four 90-kilogram bags from the maize grown on his small farm, which is about 1/3 of a hectare. "I am very happy with this maize," he says, "it will feed me and my family for nine months." This success has attracted the attention of his neighbors, whose stunted maize plants will not produce a harvest this year, and interest in the new varieties is growing.
Photo credit: CIMMYT.
For more information, see: dtma.cimmyt.org/index.php/component/content/article/117-2....
Festival Burgundy cordyline makes a strong, architectural statement in pots on the patio. It's also extremely drought-tolerant and deer-resistant, and gives you season-long color - even in northern climates - because it can be overwintered as a houseplant indoors.
Famers in Sokoine, Tanzania examining ears of improved, drought tolerant maize variety TAN 250 on a demonstration plot at a farmer field school organized by Tanzanian seed company Tanseed International Limited, with support from CIMMYT's Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project.
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.
Fabaceae (pea, or legume family) » Prosopis juliflora
PROS-oh-pis -- ancient Greek name for burdock
joo-lih-FLOR-uh -- having flowers like Albizia julibrissin (Mimosa)
commonly known as: algaroba, mesquite • Hindi: जंगली कीकर jungli kikar, काबुली कीकर kabuli-kikar, विलायती बबुल vilayati babul • Kannada: ಬೆಳ್ಳರಿ ಜಲಿ bellari jali • Marathi: विलायती शमी vilayati shami • Tamil: வன்னி vanni • Telugu: ముల్ల తుమ్మ mulla thumma
Native to: West Indies, central America, and northern South America
References: Flowers of India • World Agroforestry Centre • NPGS/GRIN
Joel Mbithi (left), farm manager of the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute's Kiboko Research Station, and Yoseph Beyene, CIMMYT maize breeder, discuss experimental plots. They are developing drought tolerant top-cross hybrids as part of the Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) project. This is run by the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) in partnership with Monsanto and CIMMYT, which supplies germplasm and expertise.
Photo credit: Anne Wangalachi/CIMMYT.
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.
Jorge Coronel (left), who leads the work of the cereals program of Ecuador’s National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIAP) in southern Ecuador, talks with a farmer leader about the wheat variety "INIAP Vivar 2010", seen growing in his field in the background. Vivar was released in 2010 and named in honor of the late CIMMYT scientist Hugo Vivar. The variety 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....
Rather large Aeonium about 12" in diameter. Growing in full sun in Mexican terracotta within my patio garden. This succulent was propagated from my father Edward's garden.
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Echinopsis eyriesii
Common Name(s): Pink Easter Lily Cactus, Red Easter Lily Cactus
Synonym(s): Echinocactus eyriesii, Cereus eyriesii, Cereus turbinatus, Echinopsis turbinata, Echinopsis pudantii, Echinopsis oxygona
Native Habitat: Corrientes, Misiones - Argentina : Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina - Brazil
Flower: Pink, White
Cultivar Availability: Common
R. Porch's Private Collection
This image by Regina Tende was submitted to our photo competition for CIMMYT staff and friends, and is the sister image to one of this week's runners up. It was taken at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute's (KARI) Kiboko Research Station, where CIMMYT works in partnership with KARI to carry out large-scale drought screening of maize. It shows a demonstration plot of different maize germplasm.
Regina works for KARI, based at KARI-Katumani, and is currently studying for a PhD in Plant Breeding at University of KwaZulu-Natal, in South Africa. She did her Master’s degree research with CIMMYT, supervised by Stephen Mugo, and in 2009 she was a visiting scientist at CIMMYT-Kenya for six months. We are very happy to hear that her relationship with CIMMYT is set to continue to grow and strengthen, as her request to do her PhD research with CIMMYT has just been accepted.
Photo credit: R. Tende/CIMMYT.
Farmer Bamusi Stambuli, from Balaka, Malawi, shows off his ears of drought tolerant maize variety ZM 309. He and his wife Sagulani have 7 children and 5 grandchildren. In April 2010, Stambuli harvested nearly 1.8 tons of ZM 309 from his 0.6-hectare plot, around double his previous yields. “I will now be able to feed my family for a whole year,” he says proudly.
ZM 309 was developed specifically for Malawi’s drought-prone areas with infertile soils, based on material from CIMMYT-Mexico, CIMMYT-Zimbabwe, and Malawi's national program, in a collaboration between CIMMYT, Malawi’s Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, and the Chitedze Research Station, through CIMMYT's Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project. The research was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. ZM 309 was officially launched in March 2009, and is known locally as Msunga banja, Chichewa for "that which takes care of or feeds the family."
For more information, see CIMMYT's 2010 e-news story "Maize farmers and seed businesses changing with the times in Malawi," available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/about-us/media-resources/newsletter/715....
For more about DTMA see: dtma.cimmyt.org/.
Photo credit: Anne Wangalachi/CIMMYT.
The tall cactus-like plant is a blooming Euphorbia candelabrum, and the airy-looking shrub behind the wall is Pittosporum tenuifolium 'Silver Sheen' . The other airy shrub behind the Euphorbia is a California native, birch-leaf mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus betuloides). The strappy plant in front is an agave relative in the Beschorneria genus.