These beauties evidently enjoy being ocean-side, as we saw them here along Manhattan Beach and also in Baja California where our daughter got married. Happy Friday!
Friday flowers…very succulent
Posted: March 25, 2022 in flowers, Misc. Photo ChallengesTags: flowers, FOTD, Friday flowers, succulents
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They get a bad press for being invasive but I love them, Janet. Happy memories for you.
Seems as though many invasive plants are pretty, the better to keep us from wanting to get rid of them. 🙂
It works for me 🤗💗
I love Pig Face. It is a native plant to Australia – 6 species and around 30 species which the rest are from South Africa. It really helps dune erosion but probably can overtake native plants in the wrong place
They are just about my favourite plant and every bit of them is edible. Maroubra Beach is covered in them.
Edible? Wow, who knew? (I guess you did and I do now.) 🙂
Pig Face? What an unattractive name for such a lovely plant! 🙂
It has many names – ice plant, sour fig, Hottentot fig, and clawberry. It is edible too 🙂
All better than Pig Face!!
I have never thought to discover why we call them that.
I’m quite curious because I don’t see anything that makes me think of a pig face. 🙂
I read that they’re also called ice plants or angular sea fig. I think I prefer those. 🙂
Lovely pop of colour, Janet!
Thanks, Sue. They’re beautiful and great at helping control erosion.
Ah, OK
There are other colors too.
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Gorgeous flowers at this lovely beach.
Beautiful to see the pink with the blue of the sky. Used to enjoy seeing them in SA.
And they come in different colors as well. 🙂 They’re a great contrast to the green of the rest of the plant.
Very pretty!
Thanks, Jennifer, and happy Friday.
I just planted some to take over and area that needs color. I love them too. Love them more against the ocean.
Hmmm, I didn’t realize they’d grow well here. I thought they’d need more water. I may have to get some myself.
I’ll be the Guinea pig.
Thanks! 🙂
Lovely! They used to and maybe still do in places line the cliffs along Hwy 1.
I photographed them several times myself. Then I heard there was an effort to remove them all because they’re not native and they were killing off the native wildflowers. I don’t know what happened to that effort as I lost track of the updates after I moved. Interesting isn’t it how something so lovely can be a nuisance too.
If invasive species weren’t often lovely, people probably would get rid of them right away and curtail that invasive part. 🙂
Such a pretty color to those flowers.
I really like that particular color. There are others as well.
Wow – what a shot.
Glad you liked it/them, JT. Happy Friday.
The flowers are pretty, but the leaves are very attractive, too! And anything with a beach background is attention-grabbing for me! Nice finds, Janet! 🌞
Thanks, Lisa. I may have to try them here.
We get them here in South Africa too as Brian said, Carpobrotus quadrifidus. We call them Elandsvy
That’s a nice-sounding name, much better than Pig Face! 🙂 Sounds like something from Lord of the Rings.
😂🤣 Yes indeed.
Wow!
They do look so elegant alongside the beach 🙂
They definitely do. Flowers with a view. 🙂