Tag Archives: Agave salmiana var. ferox ‘Medio Picta’
garden mysteries and dilemmas
Some minor drama and quandaries in the garden recently. The very large but unidentified tillandsia brought home from a sale at the private garden of the late Bill Baker (of Aloe ‘Hercules’ fame), organized by his wife Donna Baker and … Continue reading
this week in the garden; more silver leaves
Silver plants have sneakily become a new obsession. I should qualify that as unfamiliar silver plants, ones I haven’t grown before, and I’ve grown a lot. (Last year’s silver crush was the Afghan fig ‘Silver Lyre,’ mail-ordered from Cistus, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Agave celsii, Agave mitis var. albidior, Agave salmiana var. ferox 'Medio Picta', Bocconia frutescens, Centaurea ragusina, Dianthus caryophyllus 'Single Black', dry garden, Eriogonum giganteum var. compactum, Ficus afghanistanica 'Silver Lyre', Hazardia detonsa, Lavandula 'Silver Anouk', Plectranthus argentatus, Salvia pachyphylla, silver leaves
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favorite plants and an end-of-week nursery browse 5/29/15
All the new and interesting dry garden shrubs on the smallish side seem to be coming from Annie’s Annuals & Perennials. Gnidia polystacha from South Africa is a light-limbed shrub with needle-like leaves that readily give away its Thymelaeaceae family … Continue reading
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Tagged Agave desmettiana 'Joe Hoak', Agave salmiana var. ferox 'Medio Picta', Aloe deltoideodonta ‘Sparkler’, Annie's Annuals & Perennials Nursery, Beaucarnia recurvata, Dasylirion wheeleri, Echeveria pallida, Emilia javanica, Ethiopian Spur Flower, Gnidia polystacha, Lincoln Avenue Nursery, Los Angeles Cactus & Succulent Society Annual Drought Tolerant Plant Festival, Plectranthus coerulescens, Tradescantia cerinthoides 'Greenlee', Yerba Buena Nursery
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