June is perhaps as good as May for the APEX crevice garden.
Junellia succulentifolia; evergreen dwarf shrub, smells like a bag of gym socks.
Acantholimon venustum is the most common, greenish species to tolerate wetter climates. Ours looks like it wants to die now that the park fixed their years-old leaky drinking fountain nearby. Agave kaibabensis and Maihenia poepiggii share the frame.
Maihuenia poeppigiii fruit.
It had green fruit on it in October, and I was going to leave them when cactus guru Rod Haenni said a more polite version of "They're ripe already, dummie, collect them before some bastard steals them." Sure enough: full of beautiful black, beady, glossy seeds. The seeds have been shared with growers and seed exchanges.
Buns in buns: Heterotheca jonesii seedling in Asperula gussonii
Not a common plant, Kintgen must have given me this Scabiosa graminifolia var. compacta. It seems rare in gardens, but reblooms and reseeds in the garden like a hexane explosion. I have had to scrape up seedlings in winter.
We get hypnotized by the Undauted Muhly Grass' pink autumn symphony, but let's not forget that Muhlenbergia reverchonii is an excellent, perfect rich-green clumpgrass until then. More clumpgrass in steppe gardens, I say.
Call to action. Expect a ranting post on that.
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