August Instagram goings-on

So many things get posted over on my Instagram page that never make it to the blog, so I thought perhaps a repost of a few Instagram goings-on might be fun. Starting from back on August 16th when I took this shot of the front garden.And a close-up of Agave 'Baccarat' 
To the back garden where × Cryptbergia 'Red Burst' (Aechmea x Billbergia) fills my chartreuse Circle Pot.
Variegated Agave parryi, a gift from Alison (years ago)
My Echinocactus grusonii (aka golden barrel cactus), has a baby! Since it can't grow outwards and create a colony, it has decided to go up. Those berries on the left belong to a Scadoxus puniceus.
Curious color on the Fascicularia bicolor (or maybe Fascicularia pitcairniifolia, I get them confused). It's gotten even redder since I snapped and shared this shot. Usually the red means blooms, but new leaves at the center of the rosette seem to say no.
My latest bromeliad aquisition; Tillandsia secunda from Thicket.
Second oldest, third tallest, Trachycarpus wagnerianus.
Third oldest, second tallest, another Trachycarpus wagnerianus. And yes the fronds are a little longer than you'd expect to see on a "waggy"... perhaps because it's in quite a bit of shade (or so I've been told).
Later that same day I got to work and trimmed the old growth on Sammy, our oldest (tallest) Yucca rostrata, further exposing his tall trunk. Naturally I didn't think to take a before photo.
But the "afters" are pretty good.

It slowly worked towards that...


Orange crocosmia from a friend, no name, but it's pretty fabulous.
My Dioon edule had been hanging onto the same lame leaves for years. I decided it was time to toss it. I cut them off, stuck the pot in the garage and then this happened.
I got to visit the studio and garden of one of my heroes, floral and botanical designer Francoise Weeks—it was just as wonderful as I'd imagined.
I could have spent hours exploring!
We sat and chatted and sipped wine and snacked on tasty things.
The next day it was off to Mt Rainer National Park where I spotted these amazing lichen on a bridge hand-rail.

Skyscraper senecio standing tall and glowing in the August sunshine…
And finally a garden visit to a new acquaintance who gardens in Clackamas, Oregon; @tropicalpdx. He has 100 palms in his garden (!!!) perhaps the most impressive (to me at least) is this ginormous Butia capitata by the front door.
There are also oleander...
Manihot grahamii
And a particularly stunning loquat, Eriobotrya japonica. I took a few more photos of this garden but the light was so strong that day that they didn't turn out very good.
Oh, and my first Berkheya purpurea bloom! Rabbits keep munching on the plant, I’m so happy a bloom stalk finally escaped their pruning...

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