Pachypodium namaquanum
A Riverside County couple travels to South Africa to “borrow” some seeds from some of the driest and rarest succulents around. I hope they left some seeds behind too.
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Buck Hemenway stands beside a Halfmen’s succulent, found in South Africa. Hemenway owns a wholesale succulent and cactus company in Riverside and travels abroad.
Digging a little deeper, we find this picture from last year of the Hemenway’s new garden.
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Buck and Yvonne Hemenway, of Riverside, will display their back yard filled with drought-tolerant plants at the ninth annual Garden Tour and Plant Sale this weekend.
Now that’s a lot of cactus. And they ripped out a lawn to install it.
