Comments on: UC Botanical Garden

By: chuck b.

chuck b. — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:43:57 +0000

I got that Dichlostemma volubile from Telos last year and it grew quite a ways up my Fremontodendron this year. I hope it comes back next year too.

By: Bird

Bird — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:03:40 +0000

That snake lily is fascinating, a real mismatch between flower and stem!

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:16:24 +0000

I don’t think they were thinking of the opium or even the muffin seed angle with the poppies, just planting something ornamental. The dichelostemmas are pretty cool. It’s just a random flower head above a shrub that wouldn’t have that type of bloom, and then when you look you can see that it’s snaking up the stem of the shrub. I think they would be pretty fun to grow, kind of like a smaller-scale version of adding a clematis or climbing rose to a tree.

By: lostlandscape(James)

lostlandscape(James) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:13:28 +0000

I’m curious how they had the poppies labeled–as bread poppies or how they’re used in much of the rest of the world. I haven’t been to this garden, but it looks like it’d be easy to slip into plant overload and forget to photograph something cool. The dichelostemma must have been neat in person. I’ve run across it in the Telos Rare Bulbs catalog but haven’t added it to the garden yet. Still it’s always easier to justify adding a bulb to the garden because they don’t usually take up the space that shrubs do.