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Bromeliads And Spring Flowers
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Bromeliads and Spring flowers at Sherman Gardens on Saturday. Indoors was a small local Bromeliad show.
Tillandsias as bird feathers:
This one reminded me of Harry Potter's Whomping Willow
Orthophytum
Billbergia
Neoregelia
Aechmea 'Black On Black'
Neoregelias
Quesnelia
That's a clever way to keep your leaf tips from browning, isn't it?
Meanwhile, more Bromeliads outdoors in the garden
And Lupine hybrids in Easter egg colors.
Papaver nudicaule
The seasonal beds had a red white and purple color scheme with Arizona cypress as vertical accents.
There's that fabulous poppy hybrid again.
A true blue Salvia. Salvia cacaliifolia??
General Sherman Garden lushness.
There were multiple large clumps of Dendrobium speciosum looking absolutely glorious. These are grown outdoors year round.
It puts on quite a show
Echium
Etlingera elatior, "Torch Ginger", in the glass house.
Many more flowers there; plenty for another post.
Beautiful shot of the poppy!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Phillip. It is a beautiful poppy.
DeleteThat is the most spectacular Dendrobium specimen I have ever seen. How old is it? Lots of beautiful bromeliads too. Love the Tillandsia flamingo.
ReplyDeleteProbably over 20 years. There were several others as well.
DeleteWell that was just lovely!
ReplyDeleteSpring. Gotta love it!
DeleteThe curly Quesnelia is really something. It would be a great companion on a table for Albuca spiralis 'Frizzle Sizzle' (which I'd never heard of before Kris showed hers emerging); for most of us they'd both be container plants.
ReplyDeleteThe Dendrobiums surely don't flower like that every year? Thes seem to say "wonderful wet winter"...
The Dendrobiums apparently do flower like that every year. Sherman Gardens is a stone's throw from the Pacific and the climate is...sublime.
DeleteIf you'd described it to me, I might have rolled my eyes at the idea of a bird figure decked out with Tillandsia feathers but I loved it on sight. The "Whomping Willow" was inspired staging too. It looks as though I should pay another visit to Sherman Gardens.
ReplyDeleteAgree with you! It was brilliantly well done, the plants flawlessly grown. That makes all the difference.
DeleteI don't think I've ever been to Sherman in early Spring. It was just as beautiful as the other seasons.
Torch ginger looks carefully manufactured of plastic, but rather beautiful.
ReplyDeleteNot keen on them myself; but they are very striking.
DeleteSo many things to enjoy ! Wonderful Broms and Tillandsias. And how in the world did they manage to grow those hybrid Lupins ? I have failed miserably with them on numerous occasions-I would not expect to see them in Socal.
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering if there are some new hybrids intended to be more heat-tolerant. I would think it would be possible, considering I've got a slope covered with annual L. succulentus just now.
DeleteAnnie's for example has this (read the description): https://www.anniesannuals.com/plants/view/?id=1260
Sherman Gardens does a lot of seasonal displays--these will be pulled in a few weeks or couple of months as the display changes from spring themes to the summer version.
Fabulous display.
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