Sunday, July 20, 2014

From the UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens...

A lot of noise about this plant called the Queen of the Andes...that flowers once in 80 to 100 years, and this one is flowering 24 years into its existence in the gardens...so I went to see it. Spectacularly ugly fellow, in my opinion - but well done anyway! Of more interest to me were the hummingbirds, can you spot them?






And then there were the side-attractions...

Spherical aloe


the Japanese garden shed with a lovely mossy rooftop


a sunny little cactus ball from the deserts of Mexico

 and a succulent called "pork and beans"!


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