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Desert Garden

The Office of James Burnett has designed a nine-acre garden inspired by the Annenbergs’ Post-Impressionist painting collection. More than 50,000 desert plants will create a lush oasis that reflects a 21st-century sensitivity to water usage. Using a limited number of desert plant species, the design juxtaposes areas of different colors, textures and shapes to immerse the visitor in a sensuous outdoor experience. The gardens form a vision of today's desert oasis providing contrast to the cultural landscape of the adjacent estate.

 

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Images supplied by the Office of James Burnettt

 


JULY 13, 2010
White Blooms Rise: Yucca Pallida, Pale Leaf Yucca


Garden Plants

Yuccas
Plants in the Center's garden include a variety of yuccas. Featured are Yucca rostrata (Beaked Yucca); Yucca whipplei (Our Lord's Candle); and our featured plant, Yucca pallida (Pale Leaf Yucca). Often overlooked, this yucca provides a striking stemless rosette which features flexible and neatly arranged powder blue leaves that measure 1 inch wide by 1 foot long. The leaves often arch and twist gracefully displaying a light yellow to white striating along the leaf margin. While the leaf tip is sharp, the leaves are flexible and not rigid, making Yucca pallida one of the safer yuccas in a public garden. In late spring and summer, a three to seven foot-tall flower stalk appears covered with white bell-shaped flowers.

Dillon Diers
Associate ASLA, Senior Assistant, the Office of James Burnett