Summer Flowering Bulbs

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Gardening + Bulbs, Corms and Rhizomes

CREATING EXOTIC SPACES

Pineapple lily  (Asparagaceae family)  and Croscomia  (Iridaceae family)

Croscomia (Iridaceae family)

Crinum (Amaryllidaceae)

Planted along the Water's Edge

Powdery alligator-flag (Thalia dealbata)

Thalia dealbata, also known as powdery thalia, water canna, powdery alligator-flag, is an aquatic plant from Mexico and several southern states of the United States. It grows to 6 ft (1.8 m), with small violet flowers on an 8 in (20 cm) panicle held above the foliage. Thalia dealbata adds a noticeable tropical touch to landscapes, ponds, swamps, and other wet places for its tropical-looking foliage, elaborate and pretty purple flowers and low maintenance. Thank you to Zac at The Pond Megastore for his identification.

Thalia belongs to the Order, Zingiberales along with the plants; bird-of-paradise, prayer plants, Cannas, bananas, plantains, ginger, turmeric, and cardamon.

                                                                                                                 

Pontederia  (Pontederiaceae family)

The Italian arum, native to the Canary Islands, flowers in the spring but produces a colorful fruit for summer color.

Italian arum (Araceae family)

The ginger is not in flower but the foliage adds tropical elements to the landscape.

         

Grassroots Horticulture

2024

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Walking Stick Cholla

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Cactus Gardening

CREATING drought tolerant gardens

Cholla, Opuntia imbricata or Cylindropuntia imbricata

Landscape Plan + Cholla + rock + spiny lizard + .......

Black and white detail

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All material © 2007-2017 by Jeanette Hyden for Grassroots Horticulture

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What does a Butterfly See?

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Well, the butterfly does not see as much as the mantis shrimp but they have more color receptors than humans. What does a butterfly see?

The warmth of dappled light through the palms.

The unfurling fronds of ferns

 The bright pink shades and fuzzy texture of chenille.

Woven edges

The blooms of pseuderanthemum reticulatum

The beautiful flowers of palms, cycads, and bromeliads.

The butterflies are not only beautiful, so is their environment in the rainforest and their tropical homes.

The blue morpho

“Butterflies in the Garden, the Mayan Experience” is at the  Fort Worth Botanic Garden Conservatory. The Rainforest Conservatory hosts more than 700 species of plants along with over 1000 exotic butterflies (until April 3). I have toured at least four butterfly exhibits in the United States and Canada and this is one of the best.

Select species of butterflies and their visible spectrum

Adaptive evolution of color vision as seen through the eyes of butterflies,  Francesca D. Frentiu, Gary D. Bernard, Cristina I. Cuevas, 

Hyden Photography

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Grassroots Horticulture

2016

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