Now back to the Botanical Garden...(I was here yesterday too):
I was here for a volunteer appreciation party. Last year when I was unemployed, I volunteered extensively. This year, I'm working again so I mostly volunteer for evening events and monthly sales, but I also do some nursery work from home in the form of growing native plants from seed. Last week, I dropped of several 4" pots of Keckiella cordifolia and Berberis nevinii.
People volunteer in different areas at the nursery. I, obviously, work with CA natives. These are shrubs people. The lady in the yellow sweater is the fuchsia lady. She has a lovely southern accent; I'm not sure exactly where from.
The guy in the yellow sweater is Bernie. He has a small installation and maintenance business named Dirty Hoe. He brings home brew every year; this was a hefeweizen. We worked together a little bit in the meso-American cloud forest last year.
Mostly I socialized (and got caught up on the coyote situation from one of the gardeners), but I did sneak out to visit the garden for a bit too.
I didn't get a good picture of this tree, but its name is Dais cotinifolius, from South Africa, in the Thymelaceae, which is a family I don't know much about, except that it includes Daphne (but not thyme which is in the Lamiaceae, obviously).
And I don't know what this blue-flowering plant is, but I like it.
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What was that last plant with the silver-splashed leaves?
That's some kind of passionflower.
I'm still giggling. What a great name for a garden installation business. And he homebrews beer, too? I need a friend like that around here... not nearly enough interesting people around Cleveland these days.
Kim, but you're there, and you're clearly fabulous, so how bad can it be? :)
Crumbs,
Missed yet another great gathering of people !
I recognize several folks from the photographs.
Looks like it was a fun time had by all.
PS. Love the foliage on that passion vine.
Oooo la la .
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