Some pics coming up of the Melbourne Botanic Garden last October. There are a few shots of the main garden, but the emphasis (strangely enough) is on the succulents there.
Just inside the entrance is this Brachychiton rupestris, the Queensland Bottle Tree. Attila Kapitany, in Australian Succulent Plants, says that it's endemic to Queensland, but it seems to grow happily enough well south of its natural range; I saw several in New South Wales and Victoria.
A little further in, and a patch of Agave attenuata. This was a commonly seen species in Australian gardens
Another Agave patch, this time A. geminiflora with many flower spikes.
Succulents used for colourful ground cover and Aeoniums in plenty
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Re: Melbourne Botanic Garden
Lots of non-succulents to see. Clivia miniata is a pot plant on my windowsill at home, but a common garden plant in Melbourne. Used here as extensive ground cover. Mainly the orange flowered form,
but other colours are also available. Orchids planted out and arums, I rather like the foliage on this one . Plenty of Bromeliads. Very clean water in this urn.Mike T
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colourful foliage on some of the bromeliads
as well as colourful flower spikes
Some sort of cycad (sorry, no ID) and a Peperomia (again, no ID)
Then another succulent bed. I suspect even Colin may struggle to put names to all the unnamed Aloes in the garden. Pretty flowers, whatever it is.
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Re: Melbourne Botanic Garden
More succulents for colourful ground cover, Aeoniums and Kalanchoe pumila. For me, the latter is a hanging basket plant, but I don't have it in quite the same quantity as the the gardens here.
. More Aeoniums and I think this is a Yucca. Rather nice colour to the flower spike, whatever it isMike T
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Dudleyas as bedding, they seem to keep the farina despite getting any rain that comes along
Lots of epiphytic ferns in the Botanical Gardens, we were to see them later in vast quantities in Queensland. And some great buttress roots Not only xerophytes catered forMike T
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meanwhile, back at the succulents...ground cover from a Pachyphytum, filling in between Aloes and Aeoniums
though some areas have gravel Guilfoyle's volcano is a mound with a water storage tank in the middle, in more recent times the 'cone' has been planted with succulents, with a path winding its way to the top. Some rather nice planting. This was labelled 'Kleinia stapeliiformis', which it clearly isn't; it's a plant which seemed to be widely used as ground cover, I'm fairly sure it's Senecio serpensMike T
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some more views of the 'volcano'
This is Agave franzesini 'Grey Ghost'. Afraid it would be a bit on the large size for my 6 x 8 GH, pity that. This is a more manageable size, labelled x Graptosedum 'Bert Swanwick'. This one was labelled Crassula atropurpurea v anomala. Enough to fill my GH a few times over, but looks as if it could be confined to a modest sized potMike T
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The scale of planting with these Echeverias was impressive.This was labelled Echeveria 'Baron Bold' Aloe flowers in various colours
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A group of Agave multifilifera
Moving away from the volcano now, this bed is close by
I don't get Kalanchoe beharensis this big when I grow it
A venerable Aloe plicatilis and more use of succulents for colourful ground cover
More grey Agaves. I'd love to have the space to grow one of these Some sort of Puya? Flowers: and rosette:Mike T
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