Foliage Follow-up: The Old & the New

I had just a little time for a Foliage Follow-up post so this one will be shorter than usual.

The bed on the north side of  front door grabbed my attention as it's come together as I originally envisioned it (which isn't the norm).  It was planted in December 2014.

The bed's centerpiece is Leptosperman 'Copper Glow'.  The brightest spots of color in this view are provided by Phormium 'Maori Queen', Coprosma repens 'Evening Glow' and Lomandra 'Lime Tuff'.  The gray foliage plants are Arctotis 'Pink Sugar' (which won't bloom again until late winter or early spring), Lavandula stoechas 'Silver Anouk' and Artemisia 'Powis Castle'.

I haven't gone through all the photos I took on last week's fall plant shopping expedition but I thought I'd also share the foliage plants I purchased.  Not surprisingly perhaps, they're all succulents.

All these succulents were purchased on my trip to Ventura Cactus & Succulents without labels.  I can identify 3 of them with a degree of confidence but the best I can do is guess at the genera of the other 2.  Clockwise from the upper left, we have: Aeonium 'Sundrops', a noID Crassula (maybe a C. pubescens of some variety), a noID Euphorbia (I'm really unsure of this one), Dyckia 'Naked Lady', and Gasteria bicolor var. liliputana.

Aeonium 'Velour', purchased at Seaside Gardens Nursery in Carpinteria

Synadenium grantii 'Rubra' (aka African Milk Bush), picked up at Deep Roots in Manhattan Beach.  I'd admired this plant for some time but had forgotten how big it can get (and the label omitted that information).  I decided it would be safest for me to grow it in a large pot for now.

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