Huge monster Bromeliads, just beginning to bloom. I want some of those--but where would I put them? A non-starter.
x Cryptbergia. Never heard of it. Some kind of terrestrial bromeliad, maybe? Very, severely tempting. I wanted that puppy--loved the copper color. Didn't get it, though. Yep, now that I google, intergeneric bromeliad hybrid. Oh dear, now I really really want that puppy. But it is there, and I am here.
Bunch of different hybrid Rudbeckias, probably created by the enterprising Dutch, who seem to love American plants more than Americans do. I wanted them all, and didn't get any.
I loved this color combo, though that Sedum sieboldii is deciduous, so there will be a hole in the arrangement come winter. I might have pushed the thing further with a deep burgundy or blue-green pot, too. Glazed. My taste is not as good as theirs. Agave 'Blue Glow', Sedum 'Dragon's Blood', Aeonium 'Zwartzkop' and Sedum Sieboldii singing a four-part harmony in blue and burgundy-black:
And what the heck is this thing? Colletia paradoxa It looks like F-16-Wings-On-A-Stem, and indeed one of the common names is "Jet Plane Plant". Ha ha! They had none for sale, just this one in the Bromeliad bed (that used to be an Agave bed, and that is the outdoor mini-railroad bed, in December). Always something changed at Roger's. It's one giant flower arrangement, continually refreshed.
Dry garden out front, as we exited, plantless. It's half South Africa, half Australia, which means: California! Might be an Acacia stenophylla there? I want me some of them red Leucospermums, too. Didn't get any. I was a tower of restraint.
What I guess is a Acacia stenophylla:
Kicking myself over that x Crypbergia. The thing about plant shopping is that you'll never ever again see the one you really wanted and didn't buy. Then the ones you do buy will rapidly be so common, as common as dirt if you'll excuse the expression, that you will be really sorry you bought it when it first came out and cost $10 more than it should have, and it's not that nice anyway.
x Cryptbergia. Never heard of it. Some kind of terrestrial bromeliad, maybe? Very, severely tempting. I wanted that puppy--loved the copper color. Didn't get it, though. Yep, now that I google, intergeneric bromeliad hybrid. Oh dear, now I really really want that puppy. But it is there, and I am here.
Bunch of different hybrid Rudbeckias, probably created by the enterprising Dutch, who seem to love American plants more than Americans do. I wanted them all, and didn't get any.
I loved this color combo, though that Sedum sieboldii is deciduous, so there will be a hole in the arrangement come winter. I might have pushed the thing further with a deep burgundy or blue-green pot, too. Glazed. My taste is not as good as theirs. Agave 'Blue Glow', Sedum 'Dragon's Blood', Aeonium 'Zwartzkop' and Sedum Sieboldii singing a four-part harmony in blue and burgundy-black:
And what the heck is this thing? Colletia paradoxa It looks like F-16-Wings-On-A-Stem, and indeed one of the common names is "Jet Plane Plant". Ha ha! They had none for sale, just this one in the Bromeliad bed (that used to be an Agave bed, and that is the outdoor mini-railroad bed, in December). Always something changed at Roger's. It's one giant flower arrangement, continually refreshed.
Dry garden out front, as we exited, plantless. It's half South Africa, half Australia, which means: California! Might be an Acacia stenophylla there? I want me some of them red Leucospermums, too. Didn't get any. I was a tower of restraint.
What I guess is a Acacia stenophylla:
Kicking myself over that x Crypbergia. The thing about plant shopping is that you'll never ever again see the one you really wanted and didn't buy. Then the ones you do buy will rapidly be so common, as common as dirt if you'll excuse the expression, that you will be really sorry you bought it when it first came out and cost $10 more than it should have, and it's not that nice anyway.
That colletia is on my list of future plant purchases, but it's a scary dangerous plant, to me more so than agaves because I know where the sharp end is on agaves. Some day we should coordinate a Roger's visit -- I'd have made sure you came home with that cryptbergia!
ReplyDeleteThey said they were going to be selling Colletias in the fall, they were waiting on the grower.
ReplyDeleteAny excuse for a trip to Rogers! :)