This postal service picks upward where I left off here. Let’s induce got a hold off at the succulents together with other goodies growing exterior the fenced-in front end yard proper.
This the entrance to the fenced-in front end yard:
this post from Jan 2014 for comparison!)
This Agave parryi var. truncata inwards the driveway has thrived inwards this metallic pot.
However, a few weeks agone I noticed this:
Mealybugs! The bane of my existence! I sprayed them repeatedly alongside isopropyl alcohol together with sprinkled organization insecticide granules on overstep of the soil (as much equally I could reach). Keeping my fingers crossed I’ve nipped the work inwards the bud!
Now let’s walk to a greater extent than or less the exterior of the front end yard.
You know autumn isn’t far away when the California fuchsias (Epilobium canum) are inwards bloom
×Mangave ‘Macho Mocha’ flowered together with promptly turned into a mess of pups. Time to kind them! I much prefer 1 private rosette equally a time.
Agave weberi ‘Arizona Star’ has been slower than I idea only it’s in conclusion coming into its own
Ever reliable: Russelia equisetiformis
New this summer: Agave ‘Grey Ghost’, a gift from a friend. ‘Grey Ghost’ is idea to move a hybrid betwixt Agave salmiana var. ferox together with Agave asperrima. It was available for a brusk catamenia of fourth dimension through Plant Delights Nursery.
Aloe excelsa inwards front end of Grevillea plurijuga ssp. superba
Grevillea plurijuga ssp. superba. Don’t move fooled past times the feathery-looking foliage. It’s bristly, non soft. It hasn’t flowered yet, only the flowers hold off stunning.
Aloe marlothii, 1 of 2 inwards the front end yard (I induce got a 3rd inwards the backyard). Not a fast grower past times whatever means! The leafage behind it is from Salvia discolor.
Aloe arborescens (variegated on the left, light-green on the right) nether the city-owned-and-hence-untouchable Bradford pear (aka the nastiest tree inwards existence). Salvia discolor on the lower left.
I dearest the contrast: Manihot grahamii on the overstep together with Sambucus nigra ‘Black Lace’ on the bottom
Agave gentryi ‘Jaws’ beingness swallowed over again past times Mexican bush sage (Salvia leucantha)
Yucca linearifolia, Calliandra californica, Aloe ferox (continued below)
This Agave zebra volition presently move squished past times Aloe ferox. Time to replant it!
I had been hoping Aloe ferox would grow plenty of a body to elevator itself off the soil earlier it got likewise unopen to Agave zebra, only that doesn’t hold off similar it’s happening.
Agave parrasana × colorata, Agave parrasana, Aloe broomii. The shrub is Leucophyllum frutescens ‘Compactum’.
Agave mitis, Aloe petricola, Agave macroacantha, Aloidendron ‘Hercules’
Aloe petricola, Agave mitis, Agave macroacantha, Aloidendron ‘Hercules’
Agave macroacantha
Aloe ‘Moonglow’, Yucca rostrata, Agave americana ‘Medio-picta Alba’, Agave ovatifolia. Aloe hereroensis
This Leucophyta brownii has turned into the tumbleweed-shape I had been hoping for. I’m together with so fond of it, I volition constitute a few to a greater extent than for repetition.
Agave deserti var. nelsonii, Aloe capitata var. quartziticola, Leucophyta brownii. Agave deserti var. nelsonii together with an Agave palmeri (dwarf form) hiding behind the Leucophyta brownii will induce got to move moved this fall.
Wider stance towards the front end of the house. The tree is ‘Sonoran Emerald’ palo verde.
Agave schidigera ‘Durango Delight’
Aloe ‘Erik the Red
Considering that together with so much of the front end yard looks reasonably adept afterward a long, hot summer, I induce got high hopes for the fall. I can’t hold off for the start existent pelting to launder everything clean.
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