Yesterday I was passing by Greystone Mansion, the grounds of which are now a public park, so I went in to take a few pictures. I noticed these odd flowering plants. Here’s longer shot. I labeled it a sundew because that’s what it reminds me of, but I really don’t think that’s right.
Does anyone know what this is?
Grevillea. Wonderful plant! Displaying their lovely epipetalous stamens.
Here’s another that was right nearby.
(Also Australian, as I remember you are from an earlier post). If I’m not mistaken, all these are more or less drought tolerant; and there were various other succulents and similar plants on display. This is in Southern California, where the advantages of drought-resistant gardening is clear.
Correct, je suis une Aussie. Hee hee, you remember me!
I was surprised on first moving to California how many Australian plants I saw around; all the big eucalypts, obviously, but also callistemon (bottlebrush) and lilly-pilly (syzygium). They are great landscape plants, there’s lots of others that would probably do really well here too, like the grevillea you saw.
There is quite a push in the Australian gardening scene to move away from the lush, European style gardens, which require lots of irrigation, especially those big thirsty swathes of lawn that nobody ever walks on. Xerophytes FTW!
Here, too. Calgary is a semi-arid area - you can have grass, but ideally not grass that needs watering every other day. In my last yard I had all drought-tolerant plants, and they performed wonderfully. When we get no rain for three or four months in late summer, they were just fine.
I’m referring to the bottlebrush as being also australian, not myself, of course.
