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WHAT IS BLOOMING IN THE WESTERN REGIONAL ACCESS GARDEN IN LATE SPRING & SUMMER?

Dunes on Memorial Day 2002:
Yucca aloigolia (Spanish Bayonet) is most often seen in groupings and is often used to protect beach plantings as pictured with yucca filamentosa at the Western Regional Beach Access. Yucca aloigilia blooms early Summer.

Yucca Filamentosa:
Yuccas are evergreen, perennial shrubs or trees with tough, sword-shaped leaves with large clusters of white, rounded to bell-shaped flowers. Yucca filamentosa, in Spring Bloom, can easily be remembered and identified by the hairs or filaments on the leaves. Low growing. Blooms late Spring and Summer.

Pictured here is a Yucca Gloriosa which needs low soil fertility (like in sand) .  A perfect plant for dune areas.   
There are three Yucca Plants which are found on our ocean dunes, Spanish Bayonet (Yucca aloigolia), Adam's Needle (Yucca filamentosa), Mounded-LilyYucca or Spanish Dager (Yucca gloriosa) pictured here. Yucca Gloriosa flowers in late Summer.

GAILLARDIA PULCHELLA (Fire-Wheel, Indian Blanket): Barrier islandself-seeding annuals, 6" - 24" tall. Grows in sand along roadsides and behind dunes. Blooms early Spring, all of Summer to early Fall.

Another one of the many varieties of Gaillardia along the path in the Garden.

PURPLE ICEPLANT (Delosperma cooperi): semi-evergreen groundcover, succulent, needle like leaves, fluorescent purple flowers. Hot sunny conditions bring flowers most of the summer. Salt tolerant. Use in rock gardens, specimen, mass planting.

Photo of Western Regional Access planting site taken on March 10. 

Demonstration Garden Western Regional Beach Access.
From groundcovers to trees, plants were labeled by Peggy Brown of the Emerald Isle Reforestation Committee for local residents' planting interest.
 

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