juicy couture (by flora-file)

center of attention (by flora-file)

Flowers in the School Garden - July 5, 2014 (by flora-file)

another fine example (by flora-file)

Aloe ferox

We have many plants of Aloe ferox at the Ruth Bancroft Garden, with varying flower colors and flowering times. While some of our plants have already finished flowering, this beautiful orange and cream bicolor specimen has waited until March to take its turn in the limelight. Aloe ferox has a large distribution in South Africa, mostly in summer-rainfall areas, but also in places with rainfall throughout the year.

-Brian

500 year old Friendship Oak, Long Beach, MS

once and again (by flora-file)

Parodia magnifica (by flora-file)

trying not

to forget 

this moment

(by flora-file)

Jovibarbarian (by flora-file)

ferns (by flora-file)

100 year old rhododendron and the woman who planted it

Yes, it looks pretty. But growth like this is why parts of the Irish countryside are now both inaccessible and denuded of their native flora and flora-dependent wildlife.

Rhododendron ponticum is the Irish take on kudzu. :/

(More info here: Rhododendron—A Terrible Beauty)

100 year old rhododendron and the woman who planted it

Draceana, aloe blooms, and Aeoniums (by plantmanbuckner)

Who’s gonna tell them???

just think how much money we could save if we had all had chloroplasts...

green fire (by flora-file)

Boojum tree. Natural History Magazine. 1951.

Idria columnaris