• Plant: Tower of Jewels (Echium wildpretii)
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  • Info: Entire plant / 2014-05-27 / Hamilton Square Perennial Garden, Historic City Cemetery, Sacramento CA. / License: All rights reserved
  • Caption: After the bloom. Prolific seed production. Just cut of inflorescence 06/17 to see if further lateral flowers stalks will be produced.
Photo of Tower of Jewels (Echium wildpretii) uploaded by HamiltonSquare

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