Southern California FloraIt was a revelation the first time I drove out to Montauk years ago. Not only was the eastern most end of Long Island welcomingly rugged to my cynical West Coast eyes, but some of the bizarre beach side floral forms I was accustomed to (having recently moved from Central and Northern California) were surprisingly reminiscent. The plants out there fit and it was nice to see something naturally fit. Southern California gets the palm tree treatment at nearly every descriptive go. But there are quite a few interesting species that cling to that coastline. Let's just say I am a sucker for hearty non-tropical temperate climate coastal flora.
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Ugh, these are so pretty.
I say pretty and I mean it.
I've had a photo book along these lines published in my mind for some time. The walk to the end of Santa Barbara street and around the bend, down Garden is usually breathtaking.
It is very Anna Bush to say "ugh, these are pretty."
I think in some very fundamental way your "ugh, these are pretty" pronouncements have affected my sensibilities over the years.
Oh yeah, thats me, Toddy. Above. Masquerading as Marina.
Halophytes. I know this is probably irritating to you. Clearly this is not your point at all. But the similarities among coastal flora are very much a result of their proximity to salt. And thus the interesting adaptation of plants to thrive in salinity. They are often of this pretty succulent variety. And they are reassuring in their beauty--ugh-ingly so.
Good lord. why would that be irritating?
Also those low lying, sparce and hearty evergreen shrub types. The succulents on one side, those nubby evergreen ones on the other. Such a nice environment.
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