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Ruth Bancroft Garden's recent tour of 4 soul gardens was on a corner lot inward Concord. H5N1 Google Maps Street View ikon from August 2014 shows mounds of pose down together with perhaps gravel on what was i time lawn--the showtime of the forepart yard conversion. Now, iii years later, the plantings looks remarkably good established.
What stood out for me nigh this garden was how effortlessly it incorporates cactus--chollas, prickly pears together with columnar cactus--into the overall scheme. Agaves together with aloes are a mutual sight inward dry out gardens inward Northern California, equally are golden barrel cactus, exactly the to a greater extent than lethal members of the cactus family--especially chollas--definitely aren't. Kudos to homeowner Galen for including them!
I loved this angle of the forepart garden:
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| The large agave inward the middle is Agave salmiana var. ferox 'Butterfingers' (not Agave americana 'Marginata') |
This garden could easily hold upwards inward Arizona!
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| Sphaeralcea ambigua 'Louis Hamilton' (thank you, Jane) |
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| Aloidendron 'Hercules' |
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| Cactus glory |
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| The most wanted industrial plant life on my wishing list: Yucca 'Bright Star'. I i time passed on a smallish plant, hoping to uncovering a larger one. Here I am, nonetheless looking... |
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| The forepart garden is anchored past times a gorgeous desert willow (Chilopsis linearis) |
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| According to Galen, the homeowner, this is Chilopsis linearis 'Timeless Beauty', also known equally 'Monhews' |
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| Gaura lindheimeri in what looks similar chimney flue sections--a vivid idea! |
The homeowner told a friend of mine who happened to hold upwards on the tour nigh a 50+-year one-time cactus garden nearby. Needless to country nosotros had to banking concern stand upwards for it out. It looked a chip sparse--like it was redone redone recently, perhaps resulting inward the removal of other established plants--but such large cactus inward our cervix of the woods are a rare sight.
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