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
At Fullerton Botanical Garden, Euphorbia grandicornis is a great-looking upright, multi-stemmed succulent shrub with strong spines resembling cows’ horns. It has angular, zigzag-shaped stems, making it a good ornamental choice.
Cow Horn Cactus
Euphorbia enopla (Pincushion Euphorbia) is a beautiful species, with energetic, shrubby, green succulent with fantastical, long ruby spines reminiscent of a sea urchin. It isn’t an actual cactus.
Here is one grown at Fullerton Botanical Garden.
Euphorbia Enopla or Pincushion Euphorbia
Euphorbai Enopla
Ocotillo, mostly in Mexico, is a spiny shrub to 20 ft. with many long, whip-like, unbranched green stems growing from the base. Stems are leafless most of the year, covering themselves with bright green leaves after a rain. Here is one in the Fullerton Botanical Garden.
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
The Pride of Madeira, known as Echium candicans, grown at Fullerton Botanical Garden, is a striking evergreen shrub celebrated for its towering spires of vivid blue-to-purple flowers and silvery-green foliage.
Pride of Madeira
Yucca Gloriosa at Chapultepec Park, Mexico City. Yucca gloriosa Variegata is a very ornamental, broadleaf evergreen shrub featuring a basal rosette of attractive, rigid, sword-shaped, spine-tipped blue-green leaves. It is topped in mid-summer with spikes of beautiful, large, white, bell-shaped flowers that hummingbirds love.
Yucca Gloriosa at Chapultepec Park
The Terrace Gardens are the historic heart of Duke Gardens. Topped by a wisteria-covered pergola, the Terrace beds are filled each season with marvelous combinations of bulbs, annuals, perennials, ornamental grasses, trees, and shrubs. Container plantings complement the landscape designs.
Mix of Colors
A nice combination of colorful flowers on green shrubs
Color on Green
Hydrangeas, one of the most beloved landscape plants, are revered for their large dramatic blooms that add long-lasting color to the garden in summer and fall. These romantic shrubs come in many white flowering varieties, adding timeless beauty to any yard. The color white complements most other hues, helping to cool down the landscape during the heat of summer.
White Hydrangeas
White Hydrangea Closeup
We end our series on bonsai with Bougainvillea Bonsai.
The Bougainvillea is an evergreen shrub, little tree, or thorny vine with little trumpet-shaped flowers that grow in clusters of three and come with three pretty bright papery bracts, most often magenta or purple colored.
Bougainvillea Bonsai
Privet Bonsai is a great bonsai tree with a big fat trunk. Privet is a genus of deciduous and evergreen shrubs and small trees that are native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa. They are widely cultivated for ornamental purposes and are known for their attractive glossy leaves and small white or creamy white flowers that bloom in the summer.
Privet Bonsai
Procumbens Juniper shrub is native to the southern parts of Japan. Commonly known as the garden juniper, it is a fantastic species for bonsai. In Japan, they are not very common as bonsai as they are thought to be too easy to grow.
Procumbens Juniper Bonsai
The juniper genus is made up of about 50 to 70 different species within the cypress family. They are evergreen coniferous trees or shrubs, which are very popular for Bonsai.
Juniper Tree Bonsai
Disanthus cercidifolius is a medium-sized deciduous shrub growing to 3 m (10 ft) tall and wide. It is noted for its heart-shaped leaves which turn to shades of red, purple and yellow in autumn, but saw them in April at J C Raulston Arboretum.
Leaf Colors Variety
The Banana Split daphne is a winter daphne shrub with variegated leaves and fragrant flowers. The plant has dark green leaves with wide yellow margins, and pink flower buds that open into white, creamy flowers with a sweet, citrusy scent. Banana Split daphnes can grow to be 3–4 feet tall and wide, and bloom in late winter to early spring.
Daphne -Banana Split
Crown of Thorns, or Christ Thorn, is a deciduous, herbaceous, perennial shrub with bright green leaves and greenish flowers. The flowers are enclosed within long-lasting and bright bracts of red or yellow. The plant is loose in form, spiny and irregularly shaped, with thick, black spines and its historic presence in the Middle East led to the belief by some that the stems of this plant had been used in Christ’s crown of thorns, hence the common name.
Leucospermum ‘Scarlet Ribbon’ (Nodding Pincushion) – A dense compact shrub produces an abundance of 4 inch wide pincushion flowers. The multi-colored flower heads start a salmon pink color and then open to expose the orange-yellow perianth styles and shiny red tepals that look like ribbons. Captured in Santa Monica, California.
Blooming in spring and summer, the Hydrangea is considered a shrub. But despite their ability to be rather large showstoppers in your yard, how to grow hydrangeas isn’t a question even the novice gardener will need to ask – these beauties all but grow themselves. Reaching up to 15 feet in height, the hydrangea grows quickly and often fills in a space in just one summer. Captured these flowers in Hickory, North Carolina.
Lantana are fragrant natives of tropical regions in the Americas and Africa. These broadleaf evergreen shrubs are drought-hardy in landscapes and cold-hardy to slightly below freezing, so they can be grown as perennials in Florida and other warm regions. Found these flowers in Santa Monica, California.
Rhododendron calendulaceum, commonly known as flame azalea, is an upright, loosely branched deciduous shrub. It is native primarily to woodland slopes and mountain balds in the Appalachian Mountains from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Here are some images from Roan Mountain Bald in North Carolina/Tennessee.
