Quail Botanical Gardens

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I visited Quail Botanicals Gardens on this past Saturday. Lot's o palm porn here kidz!!

steady ready teddy!!

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Cork tree

A nice majesty

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A couple of cycads

Blue E. arenarius

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Cyphoenix nucele

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looking down into a reflection

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Skinny Rhopies

Archontophoenix alexandre var. beatrice

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A tall Chambeyronia

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Another look at the very tall nucele

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I got the bluuuuuuuues baby!!

Trithrinax schizophylla

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Fat jube

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Sabal country

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Another skinny rhopy

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Dinner plate ficus

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Caryota town

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Soon to be deceased

C. ochlandra

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Lizard

Plant

close up

one more lizard

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BAM-booze

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sweet hibiscus

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feelin' froggy?

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el fin

[DoomsDave]

D A A A V E E E !

Pant pant pant pant . . . .

Just got in from running around the block and screaming obscenities ("Obscenities!!!!" Yeah, old, but . . . . ) my hand's so sweaty and shaking, have to handle the mouse TWO-HANDED . .. .

eek!

[nomolos]

Great shots Thankyou

[Urban Rainforest]

Dave, Excellent pics!!! That is one of my favorite places in San Diego. I was there just last week and saw not one but two snakes . One was about three and a half ft. long and the other was three ft. It was all good though cuz they were gopher snakes. It's cool to see a wildlife habitat like that in the middle of the city. I work in Del Mar and sometimes I'll just go up there for lunch. It is one of the few worth while places you can go that is never very crowded.

Steve

[Urban Rainforest]

Dave, Excellent pics!!! That is one of my favorite places in San Diego. I was there just last week and saw not one but two snakes . One was about three and a half ft. long and the other was three ft. It was all good though cuz they were gopher snakes. It's cool to see a wildlife habitat like that in the middle of the city. I work in Del Mar and sometimes I'll just go up there for lunch. It is one of the few worth while places you can go that is never very crowded.

Steve

[deezpalms]

Thanks for the great comments guys!

Dave-O ~ hold on to yer seat partner! I don't want ya ta get hurt!

Steve ~ I too really enjoy it there and yes, even on the weekend one can find solitude there. I saw 1 gopher snake as well. He was warming himself in the baking sun.

[bubba]

Great Tour! That Cork Tree is Bopolicicious!

[Kim]

Very nice photos Dave! Love the lotus and frog pix, naturally all the palm pix. At the moment my brain is focused on Sabal, so thanks for those! I need to revisit Quail, thanks for the reminder.

[Rusty on Pine Is.]

Dave, absolutely beautiful photographs....you have a great sense of composition...definitely an artists eye.

Thanks so much for the pics.

rusty

[deezpalms]

Thank you all so much for your compliments! It's great to have a place to post your garden photos where other people can appreciate & enjoy them.

[realarch]

Thanks for the pics Dave, I've gotta get up there again one of these days. The bamboo is what I remember most when I think of Quail.

Tim

[MattyB]

Great shots Dave, thanks for the tour.

So what is the cupped leafed Dypsis at the bottom of post 8? Dypsis nodifera? Awesome orange crownshaft.

I think the plant in post 17 is Caeselpinnia pulchurrima (murderd the spelling). Notice how dry the dirt is around them. Great plants!

[Walter John]

I love the pics and thanks for showing but I thought these type of threads belonged in the Travel Log area and this one is about the third one to plonk here in the main section in recent times, I'd say that the Travel log section is out now and all general showing posts go here unless the moderator team is going to intervene, I would like a decison so I know myself next time.

The ratpack and extended ratpack are on tour soon folks and FM 'Newcal' is going to tell you all about that soon, watch this space...

thank you very much for listening.

[CromulentKevin]

el fin

I used to have that particular variety of passionflower (called vitifolia) in my yard. Along with several other species. Most all of them died in Jan '07. I really liked the vitifolia too since it doesn't look like the classic passionflower. Oh well! Usually they would die to the ground and then quickly grow again in spring, but they didn't even come back. One species of passionflower that remains alive (and was even growing rapidly in the winter during the freeze) is called caerulea. The flowers are really nice, but the foliage is just kind of "eh". But for a cold winter area passionflower, it's really nice because it doesn't die back much and you don't have to wait for the wall or whatever it is growing on to fill back up again each year (though they grow so fast it only take like a month anyway).

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Great shots Dave, thanks for the tour.

So what is the cupped leafed Dypsis at the bottom of post 8? Dypsis nodifera? Awesome orange crownshaft.

I think the plant in post 17 is Caeselpinnia pulchurrima (murderd the spelling). Notice how dry the dirt is around them. Great plants!

Dypsis pinnatifrons