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…
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.
