I was scootering around our park the other day with my camera, and noticed how much of the coloring is pink. Have a look.
Mailbox bush
This is a BIG bush
... and a little closer up
Nicely shaped
Beautiful!
The one in the middle must be the runt of the liter.
Now this is completely different!
Humor
SENSIBLE OBSERVATIONS
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Actually, pampas grass on that last one, it's beautiful stuff but incredibly invasive and non native; during the annual coastal cleanups, they try to get rid of it, knowing they can at best slow its rate of invasion down. It's the kudzu of the California coast.
ReplyDeleteHere you go (while I'm being a killjoy.) http://www.plantright.org/species/unnamed-cultivars-cortaderia-jubata-and-selloana
ReplyDeleteTen thousand seeds per plume and they can spread 20 miles. Whoa.
Here in Michigan our invasive plant is pinkish purple, called purple loosetrife
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