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Friday, May 30, 2025

The Huntington Desert Garden as I saw it last November (Part Two)

Back to the Huntington Desert Garden with a fabulous crested cactus. Normally I'm not a fan of crested or fasciated plants, but this one I like.

Gotta love a back-lit cactus.

Deuterocohnia brevifolia

The field of barrels is one of my favorite sections of the garden.

Powder-blue Agave parryi are the perfect accent.

Post-bloom bit I believe, so fluffy!

Puya blooms?

Close-up

Opuntia with fruit and a jungle cactus leisurely draped over it.

The fruit of this cactus caught my eye.

And then I noticed this feathered fellow making the most of it.

Yucca valida

Sprouts all along the thick arms!

Selenicereus undatus I believe (dragon fruit).

Another case of a plant growing on another plant, or at least using it for support.

Wednesday's post (Part One) featured several aeonium photos. They're making a return today...

There was beauty everywhere I looked.

Cereus horribarbis

I first visited the Huntington in 2009, that means I've been coming back over a fifteen year period.

It never gets old. I wonder if it would if I lived nearby and could visit whenever I wanted to?

Nope. Not a chance.

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

The Huntington Desert Garden as I saw it last November (Part One)

I wish I would have gotten around to posting these photos closer to when I visited, but life gets busy and as it is I've got a backlog of interesting plants and gardens to write about. So here I am, finally sharing my visit to the always stunning Huntington Desert Garden some six months after I visited...

Aloidendron dichotomum, formerly Aloe dichotoma.

The entrance to the desert garden has been under construction for awhile now. I feel like I read that this plant was a new donation to the garden, but I might be making that up. Maybe it was recently moved within the garden?

I didn't see a label for this aloe, but isn't it lovely?

Very photogenic...

In addition to close-ups I aimed for some landscape shots too.

This tall palm had a jungle cactus climbing almost all the way to the top.

Rather impressive.

Maybe Euphorbia monteiroi?

More landscape images...

The dead (?), cut-back tree (above) had a nice epiphyllum growing in it...

There were so many aeonium, in many different states of growing. All interesting...

Another wide-angle.

That's a serious gang of aloes there in the distance.

The same gang, from a different angle. That's Dracaena serrulata in the foreground.

Deuterocohnia lorentziana

I saw more than just one of these signs around the garden. Pretty pathetic.

There were several stapelia blooming, always a fun flower to see.

Stapelia and barrel cactus is a nice combination.

Hechtia glauca, with stapelia.

I didn't manage to cut down the photo offerings to a single post size, so yes, there will be more from the Huntington Desert Garden on Friday. not a bad thing really.

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