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I don't really post much about palms because I don't have that much to post about. So this is kind of unusual for me. I live on a really steep hillside. There is one lot down below in the canyon also. This canyon lot was filled in by a developer who went bankrupt about two years ago. So...

This pic was posted on another site I frequent. It was a first time blooming and the poster was quite proud. This is a bromeliad related to puyas and dyckias and hechtias and such. It comes from southern Chile along the coast, so likes it cool. This particular plant is growing in Ireland of...

This is a pic of one of those plants I post every year because it is so dang cool. It also does surprisingly well where I have it...in the am-sun, pm-shade on a rock pile. It hasn't grown fast for me and I haven't ever cut it back so it's a little bit gawky but the leaves don't yellow on me...

I'm bored, so I figured I'd post some pics of the yard from this past winter. I think these were all taken on the same day when it was drizzling or misting. By the way, this is the time of the year when my yard looks its best. Because I have a xeric yard, most of the stuff looks baked in the...

Years ago someone gave me a little Combretum grandiflorum. When I would move I'd drag it around with me (this is when I was a renter) and finally decided after looking at the pathetic little thing to plant it on the barren north side of the house I was in at the time. Well, it went nuts and by...