Comments on: Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden http://www.audreydao.com/2008/03/31/rancho-santa-ana-botanical-garden/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rancho-santa-ana-botanical-garden Confessions Of A Beautyholic Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:46:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Elizabet Gwirtz http://www.audreydao.com/2008/03/31/rancho-santa-ana-botanical-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-11489 Elizabet Gwirtz Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:47:42 +0000 http://www.audreydao.com/?p=3#comment-11489 great web site yo have btw great web site yo have btw

]]> By: Belinda http://www.audreydao.com/2008/03/31/rancho-santa-ana-botanical-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Belinda Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:55:12 +0000 http://www.audreydao.com/?p=3#comment-11 My gosh these flowers are so pretty! Your pictures look great especially ones focused on the flowers with blurred backgrounds. My gosh these flowers are so pretty! Your pictures look great especially ones focused on the flowers with blurred backgrounds.

]]> By: Nat http://www.audreydao.com/2008/03/31/rancho-santa-ana-botanical-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Nat Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:32:45 +0000 http://www.audreydao.com/?p=3#comment-5 I'm certain that last photo of the palmate leaf, yellow/brown flowered plant is the monkey-hand tree, Chironthodendron pentyladacta, formerly Bombacaceae, now Malvaceae. It has nectar that tastes like roasted hazelnuts, delicious! The blue-flowered, leathery leaved plant two above that is Deerbrush, Ceanothus sp., whose flowers make a great soap when you rub them with water. Above that is California poppy, the state flower above that is a mallow, probably Malva sp. or Hibiscus sp. The last unknown, light-blue flowers above the Ribes is a forget-me-not in the Boraginaceae, that I often see in the California hills, not sure of the species, but looks a lot like this: http://www.photosforsouls.com/images/Nature2/Forget%20me%20nots...never%20leave%20you.jpg I’m certain that last photo of the palmate leaf, yellow/brown flowered plant is the monkey-hand tree, Chironthodendron pentyladacta, formerly Bombacaceae, now Malvaceae. It has nectar that tastes like roasted hazelnuts, delicious!

The blue-flowered, leathery leaved plant two above that is Deerbrush, Ceanothus sp., whose flowers make a great soap when you rub them with water.

Above that is California poppy, the state flower

above that is a mallow, probably Malva sp. or Hibiscus sp.

The last unknown, light-blue flowers above the Ribes is a forget-me-not in the Boraginaceae, that I often see in the California hills, not sure of the species, but looks a lot like this: http://www.photosforsouls.com/images/Nature2/Forget%20me%20nots…never%20leave%20you.jpg

]]>