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| Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden |
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| In contrast with the rest of the country, visiting California in the winter, with all of its amazing succulents, will have you wanting to move to the West Coast. But what would you grow? too many choices, I have grown comfortable with a steady march of dead plants that get too much sun, humidity, or cold. I don't want too many choices, give me Texas, where its cause for celebration if something survives for multiple years. |
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| What!? Aloes have flowers? |
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| South Coast Botanic Garden in Palos Verdes, California |
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| Allen's hummingbird - taken from a distance with my cell phone. |
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| Allen's hummingbird, from this angle the iridescent feathers turn from black to vermillion. |
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| Juniper Hairstreak |
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| Thelocactus macdowellii |
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| Thelocactus macdowellii |
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| Late Winter flowers from Aloe maculata, Euphorbia rigida, Drummond Creeping Phlox and Sedum palmeri. |
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| Coryphantha macromeris - Unlike most cactus this cactus has a large tap root underground, sometimes as large as the structure above ground. |
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| Coryphantha macromeris, reliably cold hardy to at least 10° Fahrenheit. |
