Cal Hort Lecture 6.21.04

Incorporating Succulents in the Garden for Bold Year Round Interest

Presented by Ernesto Sandoval

Curator at the UCD Botanical Conservatory

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1. Echinopsis

2-3. Delosperma cooperi Hardy Ice Plant

4. Echeveria x imbricata

5. Crassulaceae groundcovers

6. Sempervivum 'Fackardian'

7. Echeveria albicans

8. Graptopetalum paraguyaense Ghost Plant

9. Echeveria x

10. Dudleya sp on Santa Cruz Island

11. Dudleya pulverulenta at Tilden Regional Parks Botanical Garden

12. Echeveria agavoides 'Ebony'

13. Crassula falcata Airplane Plant

14. Aeonium 'Swarzkopf'

15. Aeonium 'Swarzkopf' at Lotusland

16. Nerine sarniensis

17-18. Ornithogalum fimbrimarginatum Flowers in May

19. Haemanthus coccineus April Fool's Plant

20-21. Veltheimia bracteata Winter 'red-hot poker' -Flowers Feb-March

22-23. Agave victoria-reginae (var. ferdinand-regis at right)

24. Agave parryi var truncata Artichoke Agave

25. Agave parryi var. truncata

26. Agave attenuata variegated form

27. Agave tequilana variegated form

28. Agave americana Century Plant & variegated at right

29. Agave Americana mediopicta at left and Agave Americana mediopicta alba at right

30. Dasylirion longissimum

31. Dasylirion longissimum blooming at Ruth Bancroft Garden

32. Yucca rigida at left & Yucca rostrata at right

33. Billboard

34. Echinopsis Bench at Desert BG, Tucson

35-38. Echinopsis

39-40. Echinocactus grusonii Golden Barrel Cactus

41. Protection for freezing weather at RBG

42. Cleistocactus samaipatanus

43. Cleistocactus strausii left & Cleistocactus smaragdiflorus right

44. Echinopsis spachiana Golden Torch Cereus

45-46. Trichocereus pachanoi San Pedro Cactus

47. Opuntia robusta

48. Opuntia ficus-indica

49. Opuntia "Pruned back" in the Garden of Roger R. & David M.

50. Aloe saponaria

51. A larger leaf form of Aloe saponaria

52. Aloe nobilis

53. Aloe mitriformis

54. Aloe suprafoliata

55. Aloe hereroensis

56-58. Aloe striata Coral Aloe

59-60. Aloe polyphylla Many Leaved Aloe

61. Aloe microstigma

62-63. Aloe x spinosissima (A. humilis x A. arborescens)

64. Aloe littoralis

65. Aloe marlothii

66. Aloe speciosa

67. Aloe comosa

68. Aloe plicatilis Fan Aloe

69. Aloe arborescens

70. Aloe bainesii

71. Huntington Botanical Gardens Desert Garden

72. Aloe Garden at Lotusland

73-74. The Garden of Duke & Kaz Benadom president of the Cactus & Succulent Society of Am.
75. Fouquieria splendens Ocotillo

76. Mitich garden, former president of CSSA

77. Ruth Bancroft Garden Shade Structure

78. RBG at Left & Christin Yanker Hansen at right

79. Acacia pendula

80. Ernesto's 'Garden' Summer 1995

81. May 4 years later

82. Planting bed preparation

83. Eric Walther Succulent Garden at Strybing Arboretum

84. Strybing Arboretum Entry Garden

85. Aloe polyphylla & others at Strybing Entry Garden

86. The garden of the late Harland Hand

 

 

Gardens to Visit:

The Ruth Bancroft Garden
Post Office Box 30845
Walnut Creek, CA 94598
Tours / General Information
(925) 210-9663

 

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Road
 San Marino, CA 91108
 626-405-2100

  The University of California Botanical Garden

  200 Centennial Drive, #5045
  
Berkeley, CA  94720-5045
  
General  Information: (510) 643-2755

  Ganna Walska Lotusland

  Mailing Address:

  GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND FOUNDATION

   695 ASHLEY ROAD

  SANTA BARBARA, CA 93108

  Telephone: (805) 969-3767

  Office Hours: Monday Ð Friday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM