Thursday, January 23, 2014

A visit to Cistus and more…

As you may have gathered from yesterday’s post I recently visited Cistus Nursery. While I have been known to visit without pulling out the camera, this was not one of those times...so today I share a few more Cistus photos. This Eucalyptus grows next to the parking lot, I think this might be its most picturesque season.

This sign always makes me smile...I can't help but think of the Bangles "Walk Like an Egyptian" only it's the Cistus version, lyrics TBD.

It was a quiet Friday when I visited, most of the cars in the parking lot seemed to belong to employees (shocking really, that more people aren't visiting nurseries on a weekday in January). However I felt quite good that Brodie thought I was worth coming to greet. Of course he quickly tired of my photo taking ways.

This was to be the spring I sprung for a Daphne x houtteana, but now that I'm ready to make the purchase they don't seem to be anywhere other than planted in established gardens!

I would've thought this specimen sized Yucca rusteriana would have withstood the cold temperatures with no damage, sadly it looks like it's lost a leaf.

I wanted to call this a Metapanax delavayi but the berries just don't work...anyone know what it is?

They're beautiful, whatever they are...

My guide is falling behind...

Their Schefflera taiwaniana looked pretty good...

As did the S. delavayi.

I need to ask for ID on this Agave...

Their Euphorbia stygiana looks similar to mine, in other words...not good.

The nursery is still under winter lock-down. I so look forward to those magical days of spring...(they're just around the corner!)...

Magnolia tamaulipana 'Bronze Sentinel'

Daphne bholua, I could smell them long before I saw them.

Uhm...Callistemon sieberi, fairly tall specimans. I want!

Just look, how beautiful!

Many fabuluos transactions have been conducted right here.

My winter home away from home...

With that we leave the nursery and end up miles away at Sean's personal garden. I've photographed it many times, but invited again I was curious how it would look after our December "arctic blast." First though, this amazing Eucalyptus grows just across the street. I admire it every time I visit but I don't think I've actually stopped to photograph it before.

Sean's garden...

Agave ovatifolia

Dasylirion wheeleri (I think...)

I want to call those little brownish tufts Dyckia choristaminea 'Frazzle Dazzle', but I have no idea if that's right.

Most everything in the hell-strip looks pretty happy!

Ochagavia carnea (I think)...

Planters up near the front porch...

Looking back across the front garden. In the distance a Yucca aloifolia variegata.

Yucca rostrata and a big old hellebore just about to break into bloom.

That yucca again...

I love it when one copper Tetrapanax leaf hangs on. Sadly in my garden they've all fallen to the ground.

Pseodopanax ferox

In the ground! I keep thinking I'll be brave and release my plant, but then again I don't want to loose it. My garden runs a good 5-10 degrees cooler than Sean's.

Love this view into the back garden.

We'll end this tour with a lovely Mahonia eurybractiata and complimentary container. I really don't know how people manage to leave containers empty, I love the look but in my garden there would be a plant stuck in there!

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33 comments:

  1. both the nursery and Sean's garden look like pure magic!!! I love those eucalyptus trees! And the scheffleras are looking really great!

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    1. Magic indeed. You are planning on coming to the GB Fling, right?

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  2. What a lovely, great taster, and to think its still winter! So looking forward to seeing these in person soon ;)

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  3. That is a lovely Eucalyptus across the street from Sean's. Old Callistemon flowers are so cool.

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    1. I wanted to hug it, the eucalyptus I mean.

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  4. Sean's looks fabulous as one would expect....nice to see his garden fared well after the "arctic blast"....hahah...(that term will haunt me for years, I suspect)... Thanks for sharing!

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    1. I enjoy using such silly phrases as much as possible. I just wish I could get some dramatic music to play in the background.

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  5. I often wonder: do nursery owners have spectacular gardens before they start a nursery, or does having wholesale access to "any" plant precipitate the turn to greatness?

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    1. It's an individual thing. Some are so busy at the nursery they don't have the time or inclination to have a garden at home. Some start the nursery because there love of gardening and plants pushes them in that direction.

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  6. Thanks for the "visit", I want to go there so badly!

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    1. You know it will result in severe plant lust!

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  7. It'll be great to visit Cistus during the Fling!

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    1. You're already starting your list right?

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  8. Pretty sure the plant in question with the red berries and finely cut leaf is Pittosporum illicioides, possibly the cultivar 'Strappy' or one of the other narrow leaf clones. You should come back in the spring when they bloom for some amazing fragrance!

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    1. Ah yes! Thank you. Sean gave me a "Strappy" a few years ago and it was a lovely thing, until I decided to move it and it never recovered. Come back in the spring? You know I will.

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  9. Fortunately I fetched a towel to drool on the moment I saw the title of your post. I really appreciate knowing things like this ahead so that I don't short out my keyboard. Both of these places are wonderful! I have spirng break the second week of April so will probably head down to Cistus one day that week. By then there will be plants all over the place again!

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    1. You're funny...

      Spring break at Cistus, what fun. Let me know what day you'll be down this way...if you want company.

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  10. I'm impressed that Cistus provided a personal greeter/tour guide! It looks like a fabulous nursery.

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    1. I just wish he could carry my plant purchases...

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  11. I'm really intrigued by that Yucca rusteriana, never imagined that sort of color on a succulent.

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    1. Isn't it amazing? I've heard rumors of an agave with similar coloring but haven't seen it yet.

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  12. I love the nursery and enjoy the tour every time I visit! Thanks for the beautiful photos to remind me it's time for another visit.

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    1. I'd say you should visit when you come down for YGP but it sounds like you'll be making one of those crazy down and back in the same day loops.

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  13. Oh the plants! I'm getting chills! (Good chills, not arctic blast chills) Thanks for the tour! Both the Eucalyptus look incredible. And that lovely blue-leaved manzanita in the picture with the Agave ovatifolia, to die for. I second Sutter. The plant with the red fruits is a Pittosporum. What is that enchantress with the deeply lobed leaves in the 20th picture from the top? Two down from the picture of the sales counter? I had to look up that Ochagavia carnea as soon as I saw your picture! You know now how I love my bromeliads. Another one for the list! And that Dyckia does indeed look like 'Frazzle Dazzle'. Love that one.

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    1. The plant you ask about is a Sonchus canariensis or relative. It's a fabulous (not hardy for us) plant, I have one that I may have killed last summer by over watering (I didn't realize the container was holding water). It's trying to live but not looking great.

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    2. Ha! Brilliant. I just lusted after a tree dandelion. Thanks for the name. Sorry yours isn't feeling well. It does have cool foliage.

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  14. You can maybe understand why the sight of any Eucalyptus makes me cringe today. The rest is lovely.

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  15. Thrilled to see Sean's personal garden.
    Oh dear, the leaves (things) on his Pseudopanax Ferox have not fallen off. Mine (in the ground, and having experienced 20 degree-ish weather) have which can't be good. I bet I can get another one at Cistus! I didn't go last year but this year I must. (It's a long drive from here.)

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    1. I've never heard of the leaves falling from a Pseudopanax Ferox and I will have to second your statement that it can't be good, although I know we got to much less than 20F here in Portland. Yes I bet you can get another one there!

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  16. Walk Like an Egyptian reminds me of an old Steve Martin skit, but I think he did it to King Tut. Hilarious. I really appreciate tagging along when you get invited to such cool places.

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  17. Ah, Cistus! My favorite nursery....Thanks for the winter tour. I just love Sean's garden. Kind of like stepping into a tropical island paradise. That's one of the great things about the evergreen plants he has chosen...it looks great all year long!

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