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Gardens Guide

This guide is designed to assist with your exploration and identification of garden plants.

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Plants

A group of African bulbine plants with stalks culminating in orange and yellow flowers.

African Bulbine

(Bulbine frutescens)

Agave Titanota in the specimen bed.

Agave ‘Black and Blue’

(Agave titanota x. ‘Black and Blue’)

A grouping of Artichoke Agave.

Artichoke Agave

(Agave parryi var. ‘truncata’)

A shoulder-high row of Leucophyllum full of purple blooms along the Sunnylands Center and Gardens' parking lot.

Barometer Bush

(Leucophyllum spp.)

A Beaked Yucca blooms in the Gardens.

Beaked Yucca

(Yucca rostrata)

A close-up of the leaves and spines of the Black-spined Agave.

Black-spined Agave

(Agave macroacantha)

A large group of coral-blooming Blue Elf Aloes.

Blue Elf Aloe

(Aloe x. ‘Blue Elf’)

A close-up of the Blue Torch cactus.

Blue Torch

(Pilosocereus azureus)

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