Photos of SF Bay Area plants
- Subject: Photos of SF Bay Area plants
- From: d* f*
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:40:58 -0700 (PDT)
Just thought it might be of interest to some who would
like to see shots of plants from my own garden here in
Berkeley, California. As I still haven't gotten
around to utilizing my
own digital camera and posting on the web, these shots
of plants that I have brought in to the California
Horticultural Society's monthly meetings will have to
do instead. You can see the photos by going to
www.calhortsociety.org, and looking them up under the
Plant Forum
section. There will be many photos of various
bromeliads, South African and Australian plants, and
rainforest species from Mexico on down to Brazil. It
is a pity that this site doesn't also include shots
from the monthly meetings, so that you can't see the
slide show I gave to Cal hort Society on my garden
back in October, 2001.
The Cal Hort Site may be interesting to those who have
a general interest in what is being grown and shown as
new or unusual here in San Francisco, and the web site
photos load very quickly for those with slow modems.
Hope that the summer is progressing nicely for those
of us in the northern hemisphere. We are having a bit
of a heat wave here at the moment, and things like
Heliconia latispatha
and H. spissa are responding by blooming far earlier
than ever before. Other plants such as Psoralea
pinnata are in full bloom at present as well, and this
can be seen in the March 2001 or 2002 plant forum. (My
plants usually don't bloom until June/July and aren't
fragrant, other forms bloom in mid spring and are
intensely fragrant). Abutilon hybrids, Justicia
carnea, Brugmansias, Dichroa, are just some of the
things at their peak of bloom, as is the lovely
Francoa sonchifolia and the very showy bromeliad,
Aechmea nudicaulis var nudicaulis. Calandrinia
grandiflora and C. umbellata are also shocking in
their magenta vividness, along with our lovely native
Wooly Blue Curls/Trichostemon lanatum, with fuzzt
purple and blue flowers on long spikes, which
contrasts
nicely with the absolutely silver foliage of Centaurea
gymnocarpa. Several Clerodendrums are also in full
bloom; such as C. myricoides, with 2 foot long spikes
of dense small lavender/pink flowers which blooms
nearly all year here, C. ugandense and C.
philippinum. The various Thunbergias such as T.
gregorii, T. grandiflora and
T. erecta are also quite showy at the moment.
Check out the California Horticultural Society Web
Site for a virtual trip to northern California...
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