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Crassula ovata | Jade plant

At Lotusland, and throughout much of coastal California, the jade plant has unlimited growth potential. This is a patch from an area under future renovation.

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Lotusland production greenhouses | Lotusland, Montecito, CA

Lotusland produces hundreds of plants each year for their gift store as well as for the gardens and collection.

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Lotusland | Hanging cactus planters with Selenicereus and Rhipsalis

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Aloe Garden | Lotusland, Montecito, CA

Winter months find Lotusland's Aloe Garden filled with spectacular red, yellow, and orange flowers, accompanied by the buzz of hummingbirds. Our visit still held a number of blooms despite late March being the end of the season. Lotusland's spectacular garden contains more than 160 Aloe species.

Notable members of the collection: Aloe marlothii, A. salm-dyckiana, A. confusa, A. lutescens, A. elgonica, A. barberae, A. dichotoma, A. plicatilis, and A. ramosissima. The garden also festures specimens of the gru-gru palm Acrocomia aculeata) and a ponytail palm (Beaucarnea stricta).

The shallow crescent-shaped pool pictured is one of Lotusland's most recognizable features. The original pool dates to when Erastus and Marie Gavit owned the property (1915-1939). Madame Ganna Walska converted it into a white-bottomed pond lined with abalone shells and fed by fountains made of giant South Pacific clam shells.

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Lotusland | View to house and Lotus pools from pathway

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Cleistocactus tupizensis | Silver torch cactus

Lotusland, CA

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Espostoa (Thrixanthocereus) blossfeldiorum

Lotusland, CA

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Cleistocactus strausii | Wooly torch cactus

Lotusland, CA

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Ferocactus schwarzii | Schwarz’s barrel cactus

Lotusland, CA

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Flying Saucer cactus, Lotusland

This group is so complicated - is it Soehrensia, Trichocereus or Echinopsis? I’m not sure, but a great group of specimens in bloom.

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