The Guardsman Phormium
Canna Pretoria
Ensete mauralii
Bulbinella
Sedums
Tree Dahlia
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| From Pina Colada |
Tiger Grass Thamnochortus or something like that .
Tetrapanex
Canna
Pygmy palm
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| From Pina Colada |
A closer shot of the same bed
That great looking canna with burgandy foliage and delicate peach colored blooms
Alocasia
Heliconia scheideanna ( sp ? )
Carex sparkler
Agave attenuatta
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| From Pina Colada |
Ensete and a Tillandsia .. with a plectranthus sneeking in
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| From Pina Colada |
A few succulents and a Leucadendron
Aeonium
Sedums
Senecios
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| From Pina Colada |
Phormium yellow wave
Tibouchina
Brugmansia Charles Grimaldi
Ferns
Heucheralla and Helichrysum petiolare
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| From California Gardening |
Commonly found Home Depot style planting - drought tolerant though.
Iris and Erigeron ( flea bane )
Cistus and Lavender
Penstemon and Felicia
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| From California Gardening |
Ricinus
Salvia Pt. Sal and leucantha
Phormium and Draceana
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| From California Gardening |
Super Simple
Verbena Homestead purple
Stipa
Ballota and Santolina
and Apple tree and some roses
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| From In praise of Stone |
A heather garden , Pacific Coast style ( Gualala )
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| From California Gardening |
Hillside Ornamental Grasses and perennials ... with a few fruit trees thrown in.
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| From California Gardening |
A pot or two
Pennesetum sectaceum rubra
lysmachia and glenchoma and a sedum
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| From Pool and Garden Project - The Napa Valley |
Taken on a cold foggy winter afternoon in Marin County
Kniphofia “chistmas cheer’
Salvia leucantha
Variagated sterile pampas grass. Olives, Cistus Plumbago
Drought and Deer tolerant hillside planting
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well that’s about enough for now.
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3 comments:
Golly, what a blast of color and texture, especially for this gardener in New England. After the first foot of December snow, it's so clear that white, green, and mud-brown is once again the cold-climate palette until March and April. Thank you for such sophisticated (I guess I'm meaning foliage-centric) pictures from your horticultural paradise out there in, what is it?, East-Coast Zone 9? Sigh.
Tetrapanax: Still the height of exotic thrill for us northerners. It's much hardier that I'd thought: My own colony, in Rhode Island, is thriving; it rockets up from the roots each May and is ten feet tall by September.
But no blooms of course on those first-year stems. For this Winter I'm experimenting with serious Winter protection (like we do for fig trees already). So you can feel even better than you do already for gardening in such a benign California climate, here's the post on that mega-project: dirtonthekeys.blogspot.com/2008/12/tetrapanax-winter-above-ground.html.
Thanks for a deeply diverting site, and congratulations on your cool projects too!
Louis
Thanks Louis for your painterly prose .
Yes, I garden in zone 9 and am grateful for the opportunity to do so.
I'm going to check our your blog.
Thanks for the link.
Happy Gardening,
Michelle
It's cold, snowy and gray around these parts today- though the sun did finally come out. I needed these pictures to cheer me up. Thanks!
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