Callirhoe involucrata - Winecups
When you are buying plants for your garden this spring, consider adding a few natives to your garden.
Native plants typically provide habitat and food for more wildlife than non-natives adding to biodiversity. In an urban environment where wild places are fast disappearing every little piece of native habitat helps.
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The Plains Garden
The benefits of growing native plants are many – they are easy to grow, they increase native biodiversity, they reduce the risk of introducing invasives, and they use little water to name a few. In fall though, probably more than any other time of year, the overriding reason is their beauty.
It is easy to be jealous of Panayoti experiencing the South African spring right now however a walk around the gardens makes me see how much he is missing right here.
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Orbea longidens
There are many weird plants out there but succulents have more than their fair share. This Orbea longidens flower is a great example to remind us that though we find many flowers beautiful, they evolved to attract specific pollinators rather than for our pleasure.
Visit this plant in the Succulent House (located in the Rock Alpine Garden) but don’t get too close.
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