We have an area along the side of the house where we don’t often go. We have a few shrubs and flowers over there, one of which is an epiphyllum. I think it had flowers a couple of years ago, but I don’t quite remember. I went out there this morning to check on something unrelated and was pleasantly surprised by this gorgeous white flower.
It’s really, really hard to pick a single image from the 125 pictures I took today in the South Coast Botanic Garden on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. I’ll show this collage of sixteen images, but none of them do justice to actually being in the garden.
I’ll post a couple of full-sized images later this week – they were all very beautiful.
These striped gazanias certainly add a lot of color to the patio. This is one of several annuals that we recently added to the the outdoor floral collection. Very pretty!
We picked this up yesterday at the garden department in the local home improvement warehouse. It’s called Pink Eschevaria and is a succulent similar to the “Hen and Chicks” and to another unknown eschevaria we have in our garden. I know that the hen and chicks variety is native to the southwestern United States and Mexico, but some eschevaria are native to the African Continent.
We’re expecting several beautiful yellow flowers this summer from this ferocious-looking Devil’s Tongue barrel cactus. One pod near the center will be the first to bloom in a week or so. I’ll post pictures when the flowers arrive.
Newly added to our garden is this Zinnia. According to the tag, it is a ‘zinnia elegans.’ I looked up this variety on Floridata (see below the photo).
Late last night, just before bed, we stepped out into the patio and were greeted by two fully-open cactus flowers. I grabbed the camera and took several shots. This flower is fully open with another to the right that will open later in the night or, at the latest, tomorrow evening. It has been almost two weeks since our first flower of the season, but there will be a flurry of them over the next several days.
