Garden Melange, or Bits & Bobs

 Oreoxis alpina needs more internet presence; (there are no pictures of them as tight buns- until now!)
This is on Loveland Pass, CO, USA; {I would trade my left index-toe for seeds; they must blow away in the wind (which is owed, perhaps, for the bun form) if they are produced at all on these plants.}
Can you belive it is a Carrot/Cilanto/Parsley family member?

 Hippeastrum x johnsonii is an heirloom naturalising Amaryllis in the Southern USA, I hear; it has grown for me in Grand Junction, CO for many years now.  I planted it several inches deep.

Manzanita bark. Arctostaphylos patula. A somewhat challenging beast to acquire and establish, but well worth it.

Stanleya pinnata young'un in a tight crevice.  Thoroughly watering nearby soils ensured that the root area would moisten by proximity until it could get a hold; and it has. Agave palmeri behind.

I didn't think Gentiana angustifolia, bought from LaPorte Avenue Nursery in Ft. Collins, CO, would bloom in the fall.

White flowers fade to rust on a garden-grown 7' (2m) wide Eriogonum corymbosum.

A trick from Jim Borland is to approach stab-threatening Yucca leaves perpendicularly if one needs to get in there to clean, weed, or prune. Y. harrimaniae