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The Duke of Argyll's Tea Tree is looking particularly fine today--and has the most flowers we have seen since it started blooming this summer.
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Lycium barbarum
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Hebe 'Great Orme'
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And in one of the poly houses, a Hebe has started blooming with many spikes of small purple flowers. A member of the Scrophulariaceae family.
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Continuing the purple color theme, this Callicarpa, seen in bloom with clusters of small purple flowers on July 5, is now displaying its berries--light purple today, they will soon be a richer purple. A member of the Verbenaceae family, the species is native to China.
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Callicarpa bodinieri 'Profusion'
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Ludwigia hexapetala
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The Mosaic Pant is also looking particularly fine today with its geometric rosettes of leaves--now a light green in the center and dark red on the edges--nearly covering the surface of its own little pond on the Cliff.
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This Lespedeza shown blooming in the Gravel Garden last week is continuing to bloom.
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Lespedeza thunbergii 'Gibraltar'
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Lespedeza thunbergii 'Albiflora'
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And now, blooming about a week later in the Gravel Garden, this Lespedeza cultivar is starting to be covered with glistening white flowers.
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Back in one of the poly houses, a brilliant orange Ginger. A beautiful color, but surprisingly not fragrant. Native to western Bhutan and a member of the Zingerberaceae family.
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Hedychium greenei
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Cotoneaster dammeri
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And more orange--this Cotoneaster crawling down the face of the Cliff at the water's edge is covered with orange berries.
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Growing east of the Bramble Ramble, this Euonymus is displaying its unusual red fruits.
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Euonymus sp.
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Clerodendrum trichotomum
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Although only a few lingering flowers remain on the Clerodendrum on the Himalayan Slope, it is about to move on to its next stage as the red sepals reflex and expose the fruits which are green now and will soon turn a striking blue.
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Just one of the many Roses in the Stonecrop Bramble Ramble displaying their uniquely beautiful hips, this species, known as the Dog Rose, has smooth orange hips.
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Rosa canina
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Rosa villosa
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Fruiting in both the Bramble Ramble and the Flower Garden,this species has plump dark hips covered in bristles.
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Hanging in the dappled light, the uniquely shaped hips of a wonderful cultivar that is a bit hard to find in the Bramble Ramble, but well worth being pointed to.
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Rosa moyesii 'Geranium'
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Rosa moyesii 'Geranium'
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A closeup of one of the hips on the left shows its bright color, distinctive shape and tiny bristles.
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