In my last post I showed you lot the progress together with recent changes happening inwards the front end yard inside the fence. Now let’s enterprise exterior the fence. The planting strip that runs along the sidewalk bakes inwards the sun. I’ve had simply about failures hither over the years (remember this beautiful Leucospermum ‘Scarlet Ribbon’?) but they’ve taught me to rely to a greater extent than heavily on heat-loving—or at to the lowest degree heat-tolerant—succulents too equally perennials from other Mediterranean climates.
I experience expert heading into wintertime (and, beyond that, into the adjacent summer) but in that place are e'er unexpected surprises. But that’s what makes gardening together with then fascinating. Let’s confront it, nosotros require at to the lowest degree some plants to conk hither together with in that place to justify our ongoing found purchases!
I’m going to plough over this Aloe ferox a cultivar name, Aloe ferox ‘Leaning Tower’. Dude, your posture is terrible. The agency you’re going, you’ll never live able to back upward your caput to a higher house your body!
Aloe cameronii constantly inwards danger of existence engulfed yesteryear this Mexican bush sage (Salvia leucantha)
Getting ready to bloom: Aloe glauca (left) together with Veltheimia capensis, a South African bulb (actually 3 now), inwards front end of Aloe capitata var. quartziticola (right)
Non-stop bloomer: Baja fairy duster (Calliandra californica)
Finally a aspect at the succulent bed adjacent to the driveway. It separates our belongings from our neighbor’s together with is anchored yesteryear the ‘Desert Museum’ palo verde you lot meet on the correct inwards the adjacent photo:
From correct to left: Agave ‘Mad Dog’ (hybrid betwixt Agave colorata and Agave bovicornuta), Agave parrasana, Agave ‘Snow Glow’, Agave ‘Felipe Otero’, Dioon edule ‘Palma Sola’ together with more
Agave parrasana, Agave ‘Mad Dog’ (Agave colorata × bovicornuta)
From correct to left: Agave ‘Snow Glow’, Agave ‘Felipe Otero’, Dioon edule ‘Palma Sola’, Senecio vitalis (top left)
Agave ovatifolia ‘Frosty Blue’, Cotyledon orbiculata, Aloe cryptopoda.
Good ole jade found (Crassula ovata) getting ready to bloom
Yucca rostrata getting big—a expert five ft. high yesteryear four ft. wide. But no torso yet. Or perhaps it’s hidden beneath those spiky leaves?
Next post: a sneak peek at what’s going on inwards the backyard.
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