Half Moon Bay Garden Club - Seaside Balcony Garden - June 2010 San Mateo County Fair
The Half Moon Bay Garden Club
Proudly Presents:
A Seaside Balcony Garden
Featuring:
A creative re-use recycled Weber BBQ grill encrusted with beach pebbles and re-purposed as a seaside planter. Playfully splashing out from the “water” is a succulent salmon, created by Edie Phillips and Cid Young using the
following plants:
Fish Face is Sedum hispanicum
Fish Fins are small Aloe plicatilis (Fan Aloe)
Fish Eye is a Sempervivum arachnoideum (Big cobwebs houseleek)
Fish Tail are both Sedum spathlifolium & Sedum hispanicum
“Seaweed” in Weber is Disocactus and Senicio mandraliscae
& other mixed succulents
Ship Funnel “smoke”: is Stipa tenuissima (Nassella or Mexican feather grass)
Other plantings include:
Dischidia in hanging escargot shells
Aeonium arboretum, Ornithogalum (Orange Star) with Bromeliad species and Campanula portenschlagiana (Bellflower -Get Mee)
Carnivorous plants in oyster shell planter are: Dionaea muscipula (Venus Fly Trap); Sarracenia leucophylla (White Topped Pitcher Plant); Drosera capensis ( Octopus Plant or Sundew)
Seashells plantings include: Sedum rupestre & Senecio, Haworthia fasciata, Crassula coccinea, Crassula erosula “Campfire”, Cotyledon species, Echeveria, species Graptopetalum, Sedum rubrotinctum, & Pachyphytum .
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