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Oh nooooo, not pumpkins. Look, this new surprise plant with basically no roots has grown exactly where I wanted a crop. Help, it’s creeping away from the other plants so the fruit doesn’t compete with anything. Oh, the convenience!
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Overview Description Chives are herbaceous perennials grown for their slender, hollow green leaves which are used as culinary herbs with a mild onion flavor. They typically grow in dense clumps, reaching around 30-45 cm (12-18 in) in height. The leaves are cylindrical, soft in texture […]
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What humans see in a flower is nothing like the multi-stage sensory journey that guides insects to blooms.
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In Monday’s post I referenced the Balboa Park Club building, and shared a view of it from the side. Here’s the front of the building and the plants…
For a minute I thought it looked like the Dasylirion quadrangulatum (guessing?) was gonna bloom, but I think that’s just congested new growth.
I wonder if that pachypodium was set free from growing in a container like those I wrote about in my last post?
Behold, the Kate O. Sessions Cactus Garden…
I swear when we visited back in 2014 this was called simply the Old Cactus Garden (as opposed to the Desert Garden which is in an entirely different area), but now it’s named after it’s original champion: “This historic garden was developed under the direction of Kate Sessions for the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition.” (source)
Oh that banksia!
I wish I knew enough about banksia to give you a proper ID, but I do not. An online search said maybe Banksia ashbyi?
It’s pretty wonderful whatever it is.
I think it’s all sorts of fabulous when a blooming agave can be left in place to gracefully decline.
There are lil pups hiding under the dying skirt.
Dry, dry, dry…
Somehow this opuntia still managed to bloom and set fruit, even though the pads themselves are shrunk and paper thin.
A healthier speciman.
That patch of agave… *swoon*…
What is it? I don’t know. I want to call it Agave filifera, but it seems that name has been taken over by a thin leaved plant.
Our trip was timed so it seemed most of the aloes in San Diego were blooming while we were there. Sadly I know very little about aloes, other than how to appreciate them.
It would have been rather alarming to be standing there when that large bit of palm blew down.
I wish opuntia grew woody trunks up here in Oregon.
We’ve walked on now and are heading through the Palm Canyon.
Washingtonia robusta, aka Mexican fan palm I believe?
Phoenix dactylifera? (date palm)
I’m palm stupid, so my ID’s are guesses only.
This was an odd business at the base of one of the Washingtonia robusta (?). It almost seemed like there was another plant growing on it at some point, and part of its root mass was left behind.
Speaking of plants growing on plants, walking out of the canyon I looked down to see this…
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Myzus persicae Sulzer (Hemiptera: Aphididae) is a pivotal pest affecting various vegetables, fruits, crops, and ornamentals. The primary M. persicae management strategy involves insecticide use. In this study, the toxicity and efficacy of bifenthrin, fenitrothion, fosthiazate, acetamiprid, spirotetramat,…
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Holland: Ruud van Munster succeeds John van der Ent as CEO of SPAR Holding B.V.SPAR Netherlands announced that Ruud van Munster will be SPAR Holdings B.V. CEO as of 1 May 2025. After seven years as CEO of SPAR Netherlands, John van der Ent stepped down from his position for personal reasons on 1 February…
Albert Einstein once said: “The only source of knowledge is experience.” With 44 years of experience in the horticultural lighting sector, P.L. Light Systems’ knowledge (and long-standing customer relationships) is what aids them in this space. P.L. Light Systems products are designed and engineered…
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I live in zone 7a (Virginia) and gurneys just shipped out my two bare root apples but my question is, is it safe to plant the trees right when I get them or wait when spring comes? I know the concept of heeling which is done if you can’t plant immediately so should I heel the bare roots or plant them immediately? I’m scared they might die as we do get surprise frost spells
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Few garden plants are as tough as the hollies. The plant that comes to most minds (locally, at least) when holly is mentioned is undoubtedly Ilex aquifolium, the English holly, a species with countless ornamental cultivars popular for residential planting. One of the great things about English holly, and cold-hardy Ilex species in general, is […]
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Kalanchoe tomentosa ‘Golden Girl’ is a shrubby succulent with upright, basally woody stems and ovoid, golden fuzzy leaves tipped in black …
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