It's been a piece since I've done a to a greater extent than comprehensive postal service on the front end yard. I'm rattling happy amongst how things are looking overall. In spite of a recent mini oestrus wave, temperatures cause got been on the mild side, prolonging the late-spring floral splendor. High fourth dimension to plow over you lot a tour earlier summertime catches upwardly amongst us!
The succulent mounds that cause got replaced the front end lawn await quite dissimilar depending on the fourth dimension of day:
Afternoon:
Evening:
Afternoon stance from the front end porch:
The standout this past times weekend was Echinopsis 'Johnson's Hybrid':
Its flowers lasted a whole ii days!
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| The imperial flowers inwards the oculus are from Verbena lilacena 'De la Mina' |
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| The star inwards this mound is Agave vilmoriniana 'Stained Glass' |
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| Agave vilmoriniana 'Stained Glass' |
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| Yucca queretaroensis |
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| Eriogonum nudum ‘Ella Nelson’s Yellow’ |
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| Just planted as well as nevertheless needing protection from the sun: Agave 'Desert Love', a Plant Delights introduction (natural hybrid betwixt Agave ovatifolia, Agave parrasana and possibly Agave asperrima |
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| Cowhorn agave (Agave bovicornuta) as well as Madgascar ocotillo (Alluaudia procera) |
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| Agave parrasana 'Meat Claw' as well as Gazania 'Sunbathers Totonaca' |
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| 'Desert Museum' palo verde as well as Opuntia 'Baby Rita' |
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| Opuntia cacanapa 'Ellisiana' |
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| Euphorbia mauritanica |
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| Bougainvillea 'Bambino Baby Victoria', originally presumed dead afterward the wintertime only making a comeback |
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| Hardy tapioca (Manihot grahamii)... |
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| ...planted from a seedling, instantly a fifteen ft. tree. I love those leaves! |
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| Recently planted Aloe elgonica swallowed upwardly past times California poppies as well as catmint |
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| Seed pods on silver-leaf cassia (Cassia phyllodinea) |
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| 'Desert Museum' palo verde (Parkinsonia 'Desert Museum') as well as firecracker found (Russelia equisetiformis) |
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| 'Desert Museum' palo verde (Parkinsonia 'Desert Museum') |
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| Flower stem from crimson yucca (Hesperaloe parviflora) overhanging the sidewalk |
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| Aloe excelsa amind a body of body of water of lavendar as well as California fuschsia (Epilobium canum) |
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| Mexican bush sage (Salvia leucantha), 'Southern Belle' Sun drops (Calylophus drummondii 'Southern Belle') |
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| Mexican bush sage (Salvia leucantha), 'Southern Belle' Sun drops (Calylophus drummondii 'Southern Belle') |
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| Baja fairy duster (Calliandra californica) as well as Aloe ferox |
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| Baja fairy duster (Calliandra californica) as well as dwarf lavander cotton fiber (Santolina chamaecyparissus 'Nana') |
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| Baja fairy duster (Calliandra californica) |
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| The xanthous flowers are Hartweg's Sun drops (Calylophus hartwegii); this species is much taller than the 'Southern Belle' Sun drops you lot saw above |
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| The apple tree dark-green agave on the correct is Agave mitis |
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| Aloidendron 'Hercules' |
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| BACK: Agave parrsana × colorata FRONT: Agave parrasana |
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| BACK: Agave parrasana FRONT: Aloe broomii |
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| Aloe broomii could easily live false for an agave |
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| Miscellaneous aloes as well as agaves; the orange-flowering shrub is bush marigold (Tagetes lemmonii 'Martin's Mutant') |
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| Tagetes lemmonii 'Martin's Mutant' as well as Agave ovatifolia |
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| Agave ovatifolia and cushion bush (Leucophyta brownii), inwards my mass ane of the coolest Australian plants |
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| Look at the entire desert bed along the street; the tree is a palo verde hybrid called 'Sonoran Emerald' |
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