We end our series of various, interesting images from Fullerton Arboretum and Fullerton Botanical Garden in Fullerton, California.
The Love and Peace Rose (also known as Rosa ‘Love & Peace’ or ‘BAIpeace’) is an award-winning hybrid tea rose famous for its striking bicolor blooms featuring a glowing golden-yellow center edged in vibrant carmine-pink. It won the prestigious All-America Rose Selections (AARS) award in 2002.
Love and Peace Rose
The Bull’s Eye Rose, at Fullerton Botanical Garden, is a distinctive shrub rose known for its creamy white petals and prominent cranberry-red center, mimicking the look of a bull’s-eye.
Bull’s Eye Rose
The name Sally Holmes most commonly refers to the highly acclaimed hybrid musk rose variety with large, single-petal flowers (5 to 8 petals) that form massive, hydrangea-like clusters. Buff-apricot buds open into rich, creamy-white blooms with prominent golden-yellow stamens.
Here are some at Fullerton Botanical Garden.
Sally Holmes
The morning glory is a multi-stemmed ornamental annual vine with summer-blooming, trumpet-shaped flowers in purple, pink, blue, or white. Here is a purple one with a bud ready to bloom at Fullerton Botanical Garden.
Blue Morning Glory Flower and Bud
Rosa ‘Mermaid’ is a legendary, highly vigorous climbing rose featuring large, single primrose-yellow flowers, glossy dark green foliage, and very wicked, large hooked thorns. Here is an example of one flower at Fullerton Botanical Garden,
Rosa Mermaid
The large, fast-growing tree is from Central and South America. Ice Cream Bean grows on trees and is known for its cotton candy-like texture and subtle sweet flavor. It almost melts in your mouth when you suck on it.
The tree also offers beans and white and yellow pom-pom flowers seen at Fullerton Botanical Garden.
Ice Cream Bean Tree Flower
Ice Cream Bean Tree Puffy White Flower
The Succulent Sesame plant blooms much of the year, but goes deciduous during winter. The flowers are yellow with purple throats and are pollinated by beetles. Here are some examples at Fullerton Botanical Garden.
Succulent Sesame
Mini Angel’s Trumpets (Brugmansia) come in a variety of vibrant pastel and deep colors, including white, yellow, gold, orange, peach, and pink. Some rarer, deep-colored varieties also feature stunning shades of red and green.
Mini Angel’s Trumpet
Yellow flowers of the prickly pear cactus (Opuntia), at Fullerton Botanical Garden, are vibrant, waxy, cup-shaped blossoms that typically measure 2 to 4 inches in diameter and bloom from late spring through mid-summer. These striking desert blooms emerge singly or in small groups from the upper curved edges of the plant’s flattened, green pads.
Blooming Prickly Pear Cactus
Yellow Flowers of Prickly Pear Cactus
The towering, striking, and unusual plant, Echium wildpretii, ‘Tower of Jewels.’ While this plant stands at nearly seven feet tall, its tiny, salmon-colored flowers are what make it truly magnificent. Here are some at Fullerton Botanical Garden.
Tower of Jewels
Tower of Jewels Flowering Plant
At Fullerton Botanical Garden is the White Shrimp Plant (Justicia betonica), also known as the Squirrel’s Tail or Hawaiian Torch, is an eye-catching tropical evergreen shrub celebrated for its distinct, architectural flower spikes.
White Shrimp Plant
White Shrimp Plant Closeup
The crown-of-thorns, Christ plant or Christ’s thorn, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to Madagascar. Here is one at Fullerton Botanical Garden with bright, blooming flowers.
Crown of Thorns
Crown of Thorns Closeup
An abundance of yellow in different forms at Fullerton Botanical Garden in California.
Prairie Zinnia (Zinnia grandiflora) is a tough, low-spreading native perennial that excels in hot, dry, sunny landscapes where many other plants struggle.
Aloe buhri, commonly known as yellow aloe, is a succulent perennial adapted to many summer-dry climate gardens. This unique plant features striking yellow flowers that add a pop of color to any garden space. Aloe buhri grows in a rosette form, with thick, fleshy leaves.
Prairie Zinnia
Aloe Buhrii
A combination of colored flowers at Fullerton Botanical Garden.
California Fuchsia (Epilobium canum) is a beautiful species of willowherb, native to the California foothills and coastal areas.
California poppy, the state flower of California, is native to the Pacific slope of North America from Western Oregon to Baja California. Seeds of this plant were introduced into English gardens in the nineteenth century. Some examples at Fullerton Botanical Garden.
California Fuchsia and Poppies
Senna didymobotrya, commonly known as African Senna, is an evergreen shrub with a hairy, aromatic presence, native to open woodlands and grasslands in the mountainous regions of East Africa, including countries such as Kenya and Uganda, and is also grown at Fullerton Botanical Garden.
African Senna
Clusters of pinkish-white, 5-petaled, rose-like flowers in spring give way to firm blackberries of excellent eating quality that mature in summer. Rubus Fruticosus flowers, but no blackberries at Fullerton Botanical Garden.
Rubus Fruticosus
Nasturtiums have fragrant, showy flowers ranging from yellow to red. An edible plant with a peppery taste, it is often used in salads. The leaves, seeds, flowers, and flower pods are all edible.
Nasturtiums Flowers
Vibrant Nasturtiums
Seen at the Fremont Botanical Garden, Datura wrightii, or “Sacred Datura”, is the name of a flowering and poisonous ornamental plant of the Nightshade Family (Solanaceae), endemic to southwestern North America.
Sacred Datura
Cream-colored garden roses offer a luxurious, romantic aesthetic, blending soft butter, ivory, and faint peach tones. They are highly sought after for elegant bouquets and centerpieces due to their dense, ruffled petals and high petal counts, which often mimic peonies.
Found one with a bud at Fullerton Botanical Garden.
Cream-colored Garden Rose
Rosa ‘Louis de Funes’ is a fragrant, hybrid tea rose with striking orange-red blooms. It has a classic, elegant shape, a strong scent, and is disease-resistant.
Here is one from Fullerton Botanical Garden, with water droplets on the petals.
Rose ‘Louis de Funes’