happy Fourth of July 2018 by Patricia Cunningham | Gardens | 0 comments May your explosions be of the quiet variety. Sempervivum ‘Silverline’ — I think — in my Portland garden. Agave espied in Santa Barbara. Yucca rostrata in Portland, Oregon. Romneya coulteri at Kennedy School in Portland. Quiet beauty. I’m for that. And so are the animals. Chiquita stopping to smell the Glacium flavum aka Yellow Horned Poppy. Have a Happy Fourth. Cheers See also plant lust, contained