rain in summer

15 years ago

A moderate rainfall today innspired me to take a few shots of the garden... probably only the second time in my life I have seen in rain in July/august here in Southern California (in Los Angeles at least).

Aloe Hercules and Goliath, and 'friends'

'aloe garden' in one of planters

Aloe pearsonii starting to sucker

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Dendrosicyos soccotrina and 'friends'

corner of yard

Echeveria cante flowering

front palm section

tall aloes in back

Beaucarnea guatamalensis and 'friends'

Aloe dichotoma out front and steps planter

Succulent walkway (poor mailman has to hack his way through this daily, which is why some plants seem hacked... either that or mail gets dropped at the curb)

Succulent 'mound' out front

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Yucca brevifolia now about 3' tall and been in the ground now for 7 years (slow!)

Yucca endlichiana needing to be repotted (almost no soil in pot)

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Comments (12)

birdsnblooms
15 years ago
Lz, for some reason I thought you lived in Ohio, but after seeing your plants, there's NO way..lol

Your gardens are absolutely beautiful. That Pony Tail is humongous, like so many other succulents.

What is the tallest plant in pic 6/Corner? Your Agaves and Aloes are beautiful.

How did you begin your garden? One plant at a time or several? Obviously, you put a LOT of effort in your gardens.

Oh yeah, CA is a long way from OH..lol..Toni
lzrddr
Original Author
15 years ago
pic 6 is of the Echeveria cante in flower, right? which corner? Morus alba pendula far left corner and Agave parryi far right corner.
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TT, zone 5b MA
15 years ago
Succulent paradise! Very nice...

How difficult is it to care for Y. endlichiana?

T
cactusmcharris, interior BC Z4/5
15 years ago
Geoff,

Sensory overload of the good kind. Where are you going to put new plants? I too never remember rain in July/August, but the plants are digging it, and it's better than having to water. For the sheer leaf chunkiness, it's hard to beat Aloe pearsonii. And that Echeveria - oh my!
meyermike_1micha
15 years ago
Amazing Amazing!!!!

What a great walk I had this morning admiring your paradise. Thank you for inviting us.

What is that tall green leafed plant in what looks like a stand terracotta pot in the 8th picture down next to the tall spiky cactus and next to the wooden box? I love it. Thank you:-)

MIke
lzrddr
Original Author
15 years ago
Yucca endlichiana can't be that hard to take care of as both mine (one in ground and one it pot) are alive and doing great... plant in ground flowered this year. If something is hard to take care of, it dies at my place. Plant in photo 8 in standing concrete (I know it looks like Terracotta) pot is a Bombax (or Pseudobombax more correctly) along with a small Euphorbia echinus (from a cutting) and Aloe Jaws.
meyermike_1micha
15 years ago
I looked up the name of that plant and it didn't look like anything the one I am looking at.

It's the one immediately to the right of that tall cactus in the for ground. It almost looks like it as 5 leaves to each branch. The very rich green one.
It looks like it is sitting in the planter that is terrecttoa and looks like an elephant trunk on the front of it. The green tall plant farthest to the right of the picture. It is so beautiful.

Thank you
Mama_Z
15 years ago
Reason 8,935 why CA is so terrific. You can grow all of those things in your garden. Wow. Just stunning.
lzrddr
Original Author
15 years ago
if that photos is the one with Pachycereus pringlei cactus in a black pot and there is a ceramic fish in the same pot, and just to the right of it is a concrete (though brown) pot with a large, spherical plant and it has shoots coming out of it with ovoid leaves and a smaller, spiny plant in front of it (the euphorbia) that is indeed a Pseudobombax. It is a large corm/base of a tree that was rooted and sold as a caudiciform, and it is now trying to turn back into a tree (hence all the shoots coming out of it... have to cut those back every few years).
meyermike_1micha
15 years ago
Yes!

This is the picture and the plant is the tallest nice green one at the bottom front right hand side with with all those shoots and green leaves at the end. The tall one.
I think it is amazingly beautiful Lzrddr. Nice work!

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Thank you very much for that. Now to find one.llol

Mike
stanofh 10a Hayward,Ca S.F. bay area
15 years ago
Dr.Lizard-why no updates on your yard on Daves Garden?
birdsnblooms
15 years ago
Lz, sorry, I meant pic 5. A very tall plant that looks like Ming Aralia. It's the tallest plant in the background.
Also, in the same photo, what is the plant all the way to the right? There's a third pic, in the center, behind the Agave/Yucca/Aloe, lol. Sorry, can't ID most sux.
All three are in pic 5. Toni