A Few More Photos From the Nichols Garden

A few more photos from that marvelous garden in yesterday's post.  Can you blame me?
Tillandsias tucked into the crevices of a Phoenix canariensis:
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Rounded shrubs contrasting with spiky clumps:
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Bromeliads in a pipe.  Jeeze-Loueeze, even the shadows look great:
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Hard metal, soft foliage:
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Agave attenuata and Aloe polyphylla in a sea of non-weed bronze Oxalis:
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Entrance way plants, both draping and shooting skyward:
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Yellow Leucospermum flower there behind the light:
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Kalanchloe beharensis in a sea of yellow:
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Another of those little touches of plant love, a Tillandsia tied to the gate, which was crafted of rusty rebar arcs:
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Exotic vine (I think...) Fuchsia boliviensis 'Alba' (Thanks, Max!)
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The plants that screened the stairway garden from the adjacent property was a mix of hedge and trees trimmed almost into a trellis, upon which other plants could climb, or be attached to.  There was something interesting going on absolutely everywhere. 
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Papyrus:
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One of the pools by the stairway:
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Succulent bowl with two different types of Echeveria:
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Happy happy Cannas, a clump on either side of the path up the terraces to the weeping Sequoia arches.  Update:  the Fling website said "Sequoia", but--Sequoias have needles, and the arches did not.  I'll look into what that conifer could be.
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On a grey cold day, these colors would warm up anyone.
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The rusty metal agreed so nicely with the warm colored foliage and flowers.
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Cool dahlia!
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White and white...
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By no means a large garden, yet you can see from the photos how much amazing stuff there was to look at, packed into a small space that didn't feel crowded.
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An 'Icee Blue' Podocarpus with a 'Forest Pansy' Redbud by one corner of the home.
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And that Tillandsia-adorned palm again.
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Agave bracteosa at the center:
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More and more and more!
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Okay, I'm done, I'm done.

 

Comments

  1. Thanks for more images of this exceptional garden; I can't get enough! Such a beautiful place! Does canna foliage remain intact in warm winter climates like yours? I kept trying to envision the view of the back garden sans cannas in winter and just realized that they probably persist year round.

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    1. I don't grow them so can't say for sure, but from looking around the neighborhood here, I think a good part of the foliage dies, leaving a smaller, somewhat ratty plant for a few months. Probably a bit rattier in the Bay area, it being slightly colder.

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  2. Oh, I loved this second post! I was kind of worried that I was obsessing about this garden, but I see I'm not alone. I love that shot of the Heleniums with the Alstroemeria. And the Cannas!

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    1. I felt the same way! So much to learn from this garden to try to apply to my own.

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  3. My garden wants to look like that when it grows up. I think the "exotic vine" is one of my very favorite fuchsias, Fuchsia boliviana 'Alba', They get very tall and gangly, hence the vine-like appearance.
    Max P.

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    1. My garden wants to look like that too. It's the gardener that's the holdup. Thanks very much for the ID of the Fuchsia, but darn it, now I want one, too! Grrrr! ;^)

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  4. This garden is so beautiful, thank you for sharing all of these images of this vast array of plants, flowers and colours, a feast for the senses...I can almost hear the water bubbling in those ponds.
    xoxoxo ♡

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  5. BEAUTIFUL!!! I looove that Tillandsia-adorned palm!

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    1. Me, too. It made me want a palm so I could adorn it.

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