A Walk in the Garden

Bajabanca's cactus pix inspired me

Some of my favs

Pretty in pink

[Edited on 6-30-2011 by bajajudy]

These bloom when it rains

or they get watered.

JUDY...

GREAT PICS OF VERY PRETTY FLOWERS!


MIGUELAMO

A future Xmas tree????

Obispo cactus

In full bloom

[Edited on 6-30-2011 by bajajudy]

Slipper

Weeds basically

I really enjoyed taking these.

Purple is the color of..........

Flower lover here

Great colors. Are you using fertilizers?

For those of you in Baja, the below shrub does wonders in dry climates...easy to grow.


Lion's Tail
Scientific Name: Leonotis menthifolia

Mexitron
I was hoping someone would know what the Obispo...no kin to san luis...really is. That is what the nursery guy called it. We have had it for over 10 years and it has not really grown much. It blooms regularly but seldom three as in these photos. So you dont think that it is a cactus....muy interesante!

McFez
No, no fertilizers, but we do spread compost around our plants. If you could see the entire plants, you would see that they are in dirt in a pretty bleak environment...nothing lush. I guess that I should have said...Baja garden, eh?

These were all taken in June, 2011

Nobody grows that Leonotis in Fort Worth but I managed to snag a cutting of it at the Shangra-La Botanic Garden in Beaumont, TX (on the bayou....). It grows just fine here, and survives the icy winters, but the summer heat shuts down the blooming until fall when it is magnificent. However the Fort Worth Botanic Garden had a Leonotis which I hadn't seen before (L. nepetifolia?) and its blooming like crazy in this summer heat (100s for a month now ). Might be a good one for folks on the gulf side to try.

What beautiful flowers, Judy - all of 'em. Although I do believe I'm partial to the bloom when watered ones. They look so graceful - those delicate-looking white blooms reaching up above those dark green stems. Lovely!

Remembering other photos you've posted, you do have a abundance of plant life in your yard..... and chickens, too.

nena

Those "dots" are the stigmas, where the pollen will land to fertilize the plant. The smaller filamentous structures below or around the stigmas are the stamens. The terminal dots are the anthers which contain the pollen. Your botany lesson for the day!

Mexitron, I ditto you on the wonderful pix and add: the undifferentiated, multiple, gradated perianth parts are the giveaway for it being a cactus. Aizoaceae tend to have 4-5 fleshy sepals. The second photo also helps show the stamens and stigmas typical of the cacti.