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Carolyn's Garden of
Natives
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Leatherstem plants are
especially interesting
in the winter when the
leaves drop and they
look like sticks...quite
structural. They will
eventually form thickets
6' wide. Landscaping
fabric around the plants
will cause the runners
go out to the edge of
the bed and then surface
instead of making a nice
tight thicket.
Supposedly, you can tie
the limbs in knots
without their breaking. |
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Leatherstem Jatropha
diocia var diocia |
Leatherstem Jatropha
diocia var. graminea
This one has the darker
stems. |
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Devil's shoestring
Nolina lindheimeriana
is evergreen and grows
into a substantial plant
whose bloom is similar
to yucca and sotols.
Sometimes it is labeled
"bear grass"; however,
bear grass is
 Nolina
texana.
Nolina lindeheimeria
in bloom
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Bear
grass Nolina texana
looks best planted on a
slope or in a container.
Left, I have Bear
grass planted in my
container garden of
yucca, agave, and sotols.
I plan to move these to
tall containers because
they are too close to
the edge of the bed, and
they tend to trip me. I
found 4" pots of bear
grass and have a project
for them. Fortunately, I
am not in a hurry since
they grow rather slowly.
Fun, though. |
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Bee brush, below left,
is rarely found in the
nursery. Planted to
the right of the bee
brush is frog fruit
Phyla nodiflora,
which is a native
groundcover that is just
now appearing in local
nurseries. Bamboo muhly
Muhlenbergia dumosa
is at the top. When I
moved here three years
ago, there was only one
nursery that carried
agarita, and now it can
be found at some local nurseries.
The leaves on this plant
are a particularly nice
blue color. |
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Bee Brush Aloysia
gratissima |
Agarita Berberis
trifoliolata |
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Photos by C Nall |
