My last visit favourites

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  1. Nadia White Rock

    Nadia White Rock Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Succulent from Aizoaceae family Ebracteola wilmaniae
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    Eucalyptus parvula in bloom native to south eastern Australia
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    wcutler Paragon of Plants Forums Moderator VCBF Cherry Scout 10 Years

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    I'll add my favourites, mostly plants that we've posted before. We visited on July 20, 2016.

    Here is a little series on Berkheya cirsiifolia, a plant that would seem to be excessively armed.
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    Here is one that we have never posted, Asphodeline lutea. These are the fruits; I don't remember ever noticing the yellow flowers, but photos that come up on a query look lovely. If there were only these two stalks, I can see why we might have missed them. All those leaves in the background are Artemisia afra.
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    I have fruits and flowers at the same time picture
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    More from July 20. This Buddleja is much nicer-looking than the butterfly bushes in my neighbourhood. In 2012, I mentioned that my list showed Buddleja davidii 'Dartmoor' in plot 3AD7. That's where this is, but no Buddleja is listed in that plot on my current list, and no B. davidii is listed at all. Could it really be something else? Or was it going to be removed?
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    Next favourites were in the food garden. I don't get to see flowering garlic scapes very often, so we were both taken with these Allium sativum.
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    We didn't see a label on this, planted in the food garden just for colour? I think it's Asclepias tuberosa, not a plant that I know.
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    Here is Echinopsis huascha, Red Torch Cactus from Argentina.
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    The fruits on this Garrya elliptica will turn purple come fall, but they're attractively fuzzy right now.
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