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Flowers of Passiflora caerulea
in July. |
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Phygelius 'Winchester
Fanfare', one of many fine cape fuchsia cultivars, blooming in June.
This plant was planted out of a 4" pot the previous August. The tree
in the background is Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood. |
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New shoots of Phyllostachys
violascens in April. This beautiful bamboo species will shoot
in very cool weather and is probably capable of reaching a large size quickly
in the Pacific Northwest. The culms show an attractive purple coloring
at various stages of development. |
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New shoot of Phyllostachys
rubromarginata in spring. This species has been called "red-margin
bamboo" and is useful because it has strong culms with the longest internodes
of any Phyllostachys. |
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Phyllostachys vivax. |
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Pittosporum eugenioides. |
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Pittosporum tobira,
a hardy form from a plant in Seattle that has never frozen. |
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Podocarpus totara, growing
on a swampy site in the garden. |
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Flowers of Puya mirabilis
in August. This plant is not hardy here, but it is easy and fun to
grow in a pot. |
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Close-up of a flower of Puya
mirabilis. A single flower produces thousands of seeds. |
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Rosette of Puya mirabilis. |
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This Puya sp. came from
a mixed packet from Chiltern Seeds. It could be P. alpestris,
P. bertroniana, or P. chilensis. |