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The Beast Called Beschornia
The Beschornia is growing. And growing. Every day it stretches out a little more, and I must admit to being a little frightened of it. If there is a plant that will one day come alive and announce to the world tht it is really an alien beast from another universe, it would be a blooming Beschornia. I mean, it acutally has a face!
Yikes! I think I am going to give myself nightmares. But look - it has all the attributes of a classic Sci-Fi monster! I really want to do a 'Monster' Garden one day, using really scary plants. Only the most hardcore would qualify. Definitely Willard the Aloe will be there. And Proteas - a Monster Garden must have proteas. What else?
Hmmmm... now this is going to be a fun garden to design - even if I don't have a place to plant it yet.
What would you put in my Monster Garden?
Wow. That looks eerily like Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors. It doesn't yell, "Feeeeeed me!" occasionally does it?
Hahaha, I started humming "Little Shop, Little Shop of Horrors, bop-she-bop, little shop of terrors..." too, JCharlier. Yikes!
You know a voodoo lilly should be at the top of that list.
Kathryn
JCharlier and Katef! YES!!! After I read the comments, I spent the whole day singing "Feed Me!" and "Somewhere That's Green" - What a Drama Geek I can be sometimes! It is an uncanny resemblance, isn't it?
KRCantrell - Oh, definitely - all the huge, crazy stinky lilies MUST have a home in the Monster Garden. I even think we should plant them in a big sweep - the way they do phormiums in office parks - and let the smell run rampant! Now THAT is MONSTROUS!!! Good call...
I am thinking an iguana to laze around the plants would be perfect.
PS Hope you got my last message about irrigation. fyi, going to the garden show here tomorrow in search of plant names. eeek.
Maryam! Yes! I did! I'll drop you a line when I get back from work today... I can't wait for the results of your adventure getting plant names from the Berbers! Take pictures!
Well of course, Venus Fly Traps. And what about those pitcher plants, the ones that bugs fly down into and then can't crawl out of? SCARY! If you're a bug, that is . . .
Oooh, and the Cape sundew definitely has sci-fi appeal! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosera_capensis
Melianthus major - mine is blooming and it looks like a bloody mess. And I don't mean "bloody" in the cheeky British sense, but in the literal sense of oozy, sticky red.
Plus when it's not blooming it has teeth.
And Euphorbias, for the spikes. Or Solanum pyracanthum with the awesome orange thorns and black berries.
Texan NewYorker - you have a sci fi streak in you ... I think you may have to be my design assistant when I finally design this garden!
Susa - you are naming my favorite plants of all time! I adore Melianthus major, and I have no idea why I don't have one in my garden. I must remedy that right away. And I LOVE Solanum pyracanthum ... I'm always trying to put them in clients gardens, but no takers yet. I guess we just have to educate the public ... monster plants are good things.