My title is David Smith-Harrison, and I started observing and nurturing crops at a younger age. I really like watching crops develop. I began drawing and portray crops and bushes as a younger artist. Flowers, crops, and gardens proceed to encourage my skilled paintings. I’m presently nurturing and rising a backyard in Magna, Utah, which is on the very western fringe of the Salt Lake Valley nestled up in opposition to the Oquirrh Mountains. Earlier than that, I lived and gardened within the San Francisco Bay Space for over 25 years, the place gardening appeared easy in comparison with gardening in Utah.
Right this moment I’d wish to share a number of images from a go to to the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers within the Golden Gate Park. I hope you take pleasure in them.
Unimaginable double-flowered azaleas (Rhododendron hybrids, Zones 7–10) characteristic their layer upon-layer of sugar-pink petals.
A bromeliad (in all probability a wide range of Guzamania, Zones 10–11) reveals off pink leaves. Moderately than producing giant, showy flowers, many bromeliads have leaves that flush shiny colours as they get able to bloom to draw pollinators to the normally small, much less noticeable blooms.
A citrus tree is loaded with ripening fruit and opening flower buds.
A view of the Conservatory of Flowers from the surface.
Contained in the conservatory, darkish inexperienced leaves of hen’s nest fern (Asplenium nidus, Zones 10–11) are paired right here with the pink blooms of a flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa, Zones 4–8).
You possibly can’t have a conservatory with out orchids blooming. This appears to be the beautiful Nun’s cap orchid (Phaius tankervilleae, Zones 10–11).
A complete planting of Nun’s cap orchids blooms collectively.
Moth orchids (Phalaenopsis, Zones 10–11) bloom behind lush tropical greenery.
Pink moth orchids have grow to be broadly accessible and reasonably priced, making it simpler to take pleasure in their magnificence at house.
This gorgeous orchid appears like Dendrobium nobile (Zones 10–11).
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