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Sacramento Cactus together with Succulent Society (SCSS) has started a garden tour computer program this twelvemonth that encourages members to opened upwardly their gardens then others tin run across what kinds of plants they collect together with how they display them or contain them into their landscaping.
H5N1 dyad of weeks ago,
we visited the garden of SCSS Vice-President Mariel Dennis. Yesterday, fellow member Linda Roye opened her garden inward Sacramento. I was afraid the oestrus moving ridge we're currently inward would decease on people away, exactly at that topographic point was a steady flow of visitors spell I was there.
Linda's front end yard is by together with large California natives, exactly her backyard is all nearly succulents.As you lot tin run across below, it's non a large infinite exactly Linda has filled it amongst a broad diverseness of succulents: agaves, aloes, cacti, crassulas, echeverias, sedums, together with many more. Racks together with tables on the covered patio concord collections of potted haworthias, gasterias together with other shade-loving plants.
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Two Western cherry bud (Cercis occidentalis) supply some shade |
Let's guide keep a closer look!
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Agave vilmoriniana |
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Yucca filamentosa 'Color Guard' |
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Aloe 'Erik the Red'. The primary stalk is bent because Linda tripped over it. But the exciting affair is the pose out of pups (left) ready to move separated soon. My 'Erik the Red' is five ft tall straight off exactly doesn't guide keep a unmarried pup. |
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Another sitting expanse on the patio |
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One of several orchid cactus (Epiphyllum) inward hanging baskets |
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Another epiphyllum nether a large bottle brush tree (Callistemon sp.) |
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Beautifully backlit spide spider web inward bottle brush tree |
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Perfect specimen of white sage (Salvia apiana) inward the side yard some the corner from the patio |
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I actually liked this rusty bench repurposed equally a constitute table |
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Dudleya (not certain which species) |
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Echeveria 'Imbricata' inward a strawberry pot |
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Another dainty collection of potted succulents |
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Got an unsightly utility pole inward your backyard? Embrace it! |
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Crested Echeveria 'Fred Ives' |
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And regular 'Fred Ives' |
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Linda used to brand jewelry, together with it shows |
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Head pots yesteryear Sacramento expanse pottery Connie Esquibel |
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Perfect spousal human relationship of pot together with plant |
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Cascading succulents never neglect to impress. LEFT: string of pearls (Senecio rowleyanus) RIGHT: ass tail (Sedum morganianum) |
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More Sedum morganianum in an artfully broken strawberry pot |
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Chihuahua bloom (Graptopetalum bellum) |
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Power drinkable for succulents! (See, Loree, people produce utilization it!) |
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I absolutely dearest this mosaic made yesteryear Linda |
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It depicts 1 of my favorite agaves, Agave victoria-reginae |
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Jelly edible bean constitute (Sedum ×rubrotinctum) inward 2 dissimilar spots |
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Leucadendron in the far corner |
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Coral aloe (Aloe striata) |
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Mosaic pump inward a bounding main of Delosperma |
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Nice combination of textures together with colors |
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Aeonium together with Echeveria 'Imbricata' |
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In spite of all the beautiful plants, this was 1 of the most enticing things inward Linda's garden on Saturday! |
The high for downtown Sacramento on Saturday, June 17, ended upwardly beingness 101°F. The forecast is sizzling:
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