It would be nice to visit the Huntington Library & Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.
There is a collection of 14 theme gardens, including a jungle garden, subtropical garden, Japanese and Chinese garden. What I look forward to seeing the most is the succulent garden. And based on the what’s in bloom, August would be my favorite month.
The following photos seen here are gathered by The Huntington Gardens flickr group. It’s amazing to see such nice blossoms coming out of something as spiny as cactus.
The Huntington has one of the world’s largest and oldest collection of succulents. The most significant collections are agave, aloe, terrestrial bromeliads, cacti, echeveria, crassula, sedum, euphorbia, and fouquieria.
So there is a good chance of seeing a real Dragon Fruit plant here as well as the Queen Crown of Thorns (Euphorbia milii) too.
The bright pink blossoms of this cactus looks almost like a rose/peony/tulip. Simply beautiful!
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Today’s photos come from Nye Noona. The beautiful photos were taken at the Biltmore Estate and garden in Asheville, North Carolina. You can learn more about the Biltmore from my little post here.
It would be a dream vacation to visit the Biltmore sometime in the future. In the meantime, I will enjoy the visit via Nye Noona’s photos. Thank you Nye for letting me use your photos as part of Cambree Notes “Garden Photos of the Day.”
The water lilies (or lotus) are ready to meet the day and start blooming.
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My botany photo of the day is the crocosmia. This photo is taken from the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden’s botany collection. I love this bright red variety, it’s a very cheery looking flower. Next time I am in Vancouver, I will have to make a visit to the botanical garden and see what other flowers they have growing.
Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’
Crocosmia are related to the gladiola and are hardy plants that bloom from mid to late summer. Gladious are some of my favorite summer flowers and very easy to grow. In most regions, it is completely hardy if given a light mulch cover in winter. The plants will appear again in greater abundance each year. For the crocosmia corms, it is suggested that clumps be divided in spring time every three years.
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