Please excuse me for using the words "plant porn" yet again. But posts alongside the "p" give-and-take inwards the championship are human catnip, as well as similar all bloggers I desire to larn every bit much traffic every bit possible. I promise you lot tin discovery inwards your see to forgive me for beingness as well as then shameless.
As I said yesterday, this calendar week is previous postal service I showed you lot the major changes happening correct instantly every bit preparations are underway for a novel Visitor as well as Education Center. Today's postal service is "just" a visual scrapbook of images I took walking approximately the garden. My adjacent postal service volition present you lot some of the many (over 100!) sculptures on display correct instantly for the RBG's annual Sculpture inwards the Garden event.
My partner inwards criminal offense Brian as well as I walked through the garden inwards a rather haphazard fashion. By the fourth dimension nosotros were done, nosotros likely covered each trail twice as well as then the photos below are non inwards whatsoever logical order. But based on my ain experience, that's how most of us tend to sense gardens anyway.
Grab a favorite drinkable as well as sit down dorsum because this is a long post. The images guide maintain see stage; my observations are express to captions.
Check dorsum on Fri for business office 3: Sculpture inwards the Garden.
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As I said yesterday, this calendar week is previous postal service I showed you lot the major changes happening correct instantly every bit preparations are underway for a novel Visitor as well as Education Center. Today's postal service is "just" a visual scrapbook of images I took walking approximately the garden. My adjacent postal service volition present you lot some of the many (over 100!) sculptures on display correct instantly for the RBG's annual Sculpture inwards the Garden event.
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| Golden Coulter bush (Hymenolepis parviflora) as well as aloes |
My partner inwards criminal offense Brian as well as I walked through the garden inwards a rather haphazard fashion. By the fourth dimension nosotros were done, nosotros likely covered each trail twice as well as then the photos below are non inwards whatsoever logical order. But based on my ain experience, that's how most of us tend to sense gardens anyway.
Grab a favorite drinkable as well as sit down dorsum because this is a long post. The images guide maintain see stage; my observations are express to captions.
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| A new-to-me grevillea that I must instantly guide maintain but is unfortunately non widely available yet: Grevillea 'Kings Fire' |
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| Grevillea 'Kings Fire' |
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| Grevillea halmaturina subsp. laevis and Agave ovatifolia |
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| Queensland bottle tree (Brachychiton rupestris) as well as Agave ovatifolia |
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| NOID tree aloe getting likewise big to concur itself upright |
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| Leucadendron 'Ebony' (and a NOID agave) |
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| Aloe microstigma and Euphorbia rigida or myrsinites (I tin never say the difference) |
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| One of the newest beds created past times the garden staff nether the administration of assistant curator Walker Young. Note the many African cycads beingness planted here. |
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| Ghost mucilage (Eucalyptus pauciflora) |
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| One many dudleyas (this i Dudleya brittonii) newly planted inwards the garden |
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| California natives bed |
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| St Catherine's lace (Eriogonum giganteum), a giant buckwheat native to California's Channel Islands |
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| Our Lord's candle (Hesperoyucca whipplei) |
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| Opuntias, California poppies, as well as buckwheat |
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| Bluestem articulation fir (Ephedra equisetina) as well as California showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) |
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| Opuntia and Ephedra equisetina |
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| Ephedra equisetina (blue) as well as Ephedra nevadensis (green) |
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| Cardon (Pachycereus pringlei) as well as diverse buckwheats (Eriogonum sp.) |
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| Agave shawii native to Baja California |
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| Prairie zinnia (Zinnia grandiflora) |
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| Prairie zinnia (Zinnia grandiflora) as well as mystery plant |
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| This mystery constitute turns out to endure prickly thrift (Acantholimon ulicinum var. creticum)--thank you lot for the ID, Denise! |
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| Agave flowers wherever you lot look |
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| Aloe tomentosa, i of the few white-flowering aloes |
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| Another flowering agave (looks similar Agave bovicornuta × colorata) |
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| One of my favorite views inwards the garden |
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| Agave ovatifolia and Leucophyta brownii, a really inspired combination |
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| Agave ovatifolia and Leucophyta brownii |
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| I was thrilled to run into a spiral aloe (Aloe polyphylla) growing happily inwards our climate. I wonder how it volition handgrip the coming heatwave? |
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| Agave americana (planted as Agave rasconensis) shooting its bloom stem direct into this tree. It'll endure interesting to run into where it volition emerge, if it fifty-fifty will. |
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| Doesn't this await similar a giant spider sitting on a light-green nest? The light-green constitute is Acacia cognata 'Cousin Itt'. |
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| Agave mitis clump alongside multiple bloom stalks |
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| Aloe capitata var. quartziticola |
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| Agave mitis in a body of body of water of aeoniums |
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| NOID dyckias on the border of the pond |
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| Tanacetum haradjanii, a low-growing perennial from Turkey |
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| Mammillaria geminispina and either Euphorbia myrsinites or rigida |
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| NOID cactus alongside vibrant fruit |
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| NOID Echinopsis |
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| Euphorbia echinus |
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| More Dyckia flowers |
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| Leucophyta brownii and Agave 'Blue Glow' |
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| Agave 'Blue Glow' and Agave guadalajarana |
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| One of the newest beds inwards the garden. Check out how tall the mound is. |
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| Matilija poppy (Romneya coulteri) as well as weeping myall (Acacia pendula) |
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| The airy light-purple flowers inwards the foreground belong to Alyogyne 'Ruth Bancroft', a hybrid betwixt 2 Australian bluish hybiscus species (Alyogyne huegelii as well as A. hakeifolia) |
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| Look how this yucca swerved to the correct every bit it got likewise unopen to the tree! |
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| Two longer views to larn you lot inwards the mood for business office 3: Sculpture inwards the Garden |
Check dorsum on Fri for business office 3: Sculpture inwards the Garden.
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- Big changes at the Ruth Bancroft Garden (June 2017)
- Sculpture inwards the Garden at the Ruth Bancroft Garden (June 2017) (still to come)
- All posts well-nigh the Ruth Bancroft Garden