

Wild tamarind naturally drops its lower branches.


Little strongbark is fragrant with beautiful berries. Tea bush blooms year-round with flowers that each last one day. It’s a good place to learn about sunshine mimosa, muhly grass, cardinal airplant, porterweed, compact firebush, bloodberry, green buttonwood, necklacepod, and variegated Simpson’s stopper. Orange-barred and sulphur butterflies like cassia. She has watched monarchs fluttering on milkweed, and Julia and zebra longwings on the passion vine. Patsy Sachs, a master gardener who has volunteered for eight years, is passionate about the butterfly garden. Hendrickson notes, is that “anything that’s bright and has a little bit of a trumpet attracts hummingbirds.” This garden also includes crotons, three types of copperleaf, desert rose, wild coffee, crepe myrtles, canna lilies, chenille plants and much more.Ī bonus of adding color, Mr. Hendrickson said, “you can plant bromeliads and they’ll give you color with virtually no care.” “If people are looking for something for color,” Mr. He and other volunteers recently replanted part of the color garden to feature about eight types of bromeliads, including neoregelia, lipstick and aechmea. Hendrickson expects the rose garden to bloom at least through April. The scent of the Belinda’s Dream variety welcomes visitors to this corner that includes about 10 other varieties, including Louis Philippe, an heirloom antique rose with red-pink double flowers, and the McCartney rose named after the musician. The color garden features numerous types of bromeliads, crotons, crepe myrtles, roses and more.
