This Week in the Gardens: June 3rd

Dictamus albus

If you do nothing else at the Gardens this week, you must

Lithodora oleifolia

Globularia stygia

go to the Rock Alpine Garden!

Phacelia

You must walk every single path in this garden, up hills and way into the back corner, and you must go slowly,

Horned Poppy

in order to admire every tiny little blooming thing in this garden.

Haberlea rhodopensis

The Rock Alpine Garden contains a greater number of species of plants than any of our other gardens. Some of them are large and impressive, such as the agaves that Panayoti talks about in his recent blog,

Lewisia cotyledon

but many are tiny and exquisite.

Androsace

And, it seems, all are in bloom right about now.

Late Tulips

Because it contains so many microclimates, such as warm niches created by rocks, or cooler, wetter stretches that see little sun, the Rock Alpine Garden presents a panoply of blooms, both earlier and later that other areas of the Gardens.

Columbine

Bring your best eyes, and plan to spend some time here this week.

Gardens Not to Miss:
The Rock Alpine Garden is in full, stunning, bloom. Dryland Mesa is full of vivid cactus flowers. The Lilac Garden is bursting with iris and peonies.