Garden Bloggers' Fling - The Wave Garden

The Wave Garden is a one-third acre private garden on Richmond Point overlooking San Pablo Bay. The owners purchased the property to preclude development. They hired plantswoman Kelle Adams and concrete artist Victor Amador  to create a garden for the whole neighborhood to enjoy and gave them both creative freedom.   You can see great pictures of this garden here, here, here,  and here.  There are probably a lot of other great blog posts about it as well!

This was the fourth garden visit on day one of the fling, it was quite hot and we were tired but excited to see this special place.  Because parking a couple of buses in this residential area is a little tricky, we got to walk a block down to the garden.  Even before we got to the Wave,  cameras were clicking away at all of the far out plants!

I grow this aloe in a pot and bring it in for the winter.  Here it is growing in the ground.

Aloes in bloom.

One of the Restios (Rhodocoma capensis?)  Even though  I've studied the book Restios of the Fynbbos, I still have a horrible time differentiating between a few of these wonderful plants.

Aeoniums growing in the ground.  O.K. I'm going to try to stop saying , "growing in the ground" so much but it was incredible to see so many plants that we grow in pots and drag in for the winter happily growing in the ground here.  (How about just ITG?)

Grevillea loking a lot like G. Ned Kelley.  I'd left mine at home with buds and found them in glorious bloom here.  How beautiful. 

Here we are heading down the hill toward towards our destination.

Yes, that's the Golden Gate Bridge over there shrouded in fog. 

And a nice view of the city.

 

Beschorneria.  Notice the Aeonium 'Swarzkopf'  and white - flowered grevillea in the background.

Protea flowers.

Cantua buxifolia AKA "Sacred flower of the Andes"

 

Furcraea (ITG!)

Cussonia paniculata  (ITG!) Sigh.

Leucadendron 'Jester'  Beautiful!

 

The orange of the Protea picks up the orange edges of the succulents.

 

 

Echiveria elegans.  So blue and wonderful.

Beschorneria flower stalk with seed pods forming.

Kellee Adams, who designed the garden talked with us about its creation.

 

The concrete work is wonderful and unusual.

As is the iron work.

 

Another leucadendron

Beautiful seed heads on a restio.

Aeonium 'Sunburst'  Love this one! 

Grevillea x gaudichaudii.  Why aren't so many of these beauties hardy for me?

Eucalyptus flowers looking like fancy tassels for pillows, curtain tie backs or exotic dancers.

Still swooning over the huge and fragrant Eucalyptus trees everywhere.  This one offered welcome shade on this uncharacteristically hot day. 

 

Who should I find lurking in the shadows but my shady friend, Loree  with a final wave from the Wave garden.