Here are some pics I snapped during my visit.
On Friday, I had the pleasure of visiting the UC Davis campus for a reason quite unrelated to plants. (But then, for a succ-er, nothing is ever totally unrelated to plants, is it?) In addition to visiting the fabulous botanical conservatory there (which will likely be the subject of my next post), I meandered around campus a bit, where I found succulents at every turn! Some were labeled and clearly well-maintained. Others were just hanging out, like, "Yeah, I'm an agave victoria reginae, or horrida, or whatever, but let's not make a big deal of it." Here are some pics I snapped during my visit. The campus landscaping is actually kind of an interesting mix of planned landscaping and haphazard/natural landscaping, which made me wonder if different people are responsible for different areas of campus. Either way, the result is cool.
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Enchplant
9/30/2014 03:39:30 pm
I think the plant you didn't know is Echium wildprettii. Great photos. Nice blog
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10/1/2014 06:29:10 am
I love the grounds of UC Davis! Their staff horticulturist Ernesto Sandoval likely would be happy to ID anything for you. I wish I'd been writing down names when I was there, and he was showing me aloes I'd never seen or heard of before. What I found most interesting is that some of them had survived record low temps---yet another reason to know what the heck they are!
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10/6/2014 08:58:03 am
The succulents at UC Davis are indeed spectacular. I went on a tour with Ernesto Sandoval and wow what an interesting place. Did you get to see inside the greenhouses? Your eyes would have bugged out!
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