Saturday, November 28, 2009

Santa Cruz County




Despite my present fluid garden state I managed some botanical adventures. An exciting set of visits to Native Revival in Aptos and Sierra Azul in Watsonville was punctuated by a visit to Cabrillo College's Salvia Garden! I saw some spectacular Salvias at this garden. The Mexican section was full of hummingbird visited flowers, and I saw some interesting S. leucantha hybrids. Both nurseries were full of botanical abundance, and lovely demonstration gardens burst with bloom and leaf. I've included a picture of a Protea with some apian visitors from Sierra Azul. Also included is a Salvia flower close-up and a picture of John in the Salvia garden. His excitement at all these plants is certainly palpable in this photo!

6 comments:

robin michelle said...

Fluid garden state. Interesting phrase dear. Your pictures are very nice! The top one is really pretty. John looks ecstatically happy. (some people are outside my door speaking a foreign language.)

Raju madhur said...

Are these salvia plants? am sorry but i really want to know about salvia plants as i want to grow them in my garden and also i want to know what is salvia divinorum

Jessie said...

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Jim Corbett said...

Next time try to upload a Close up picture of yours and i really want to see pictures of your garden from close and by the way do you even grow up salvia plants in your garden ?:)

Priyanka chopra said...

Where do i get salvia onine ?

Mithul athwani said...

Priyanka you can go trough this site

Salviaextracts.com ... its a pretty nice site with lot of different products with affordable price !