Foliage Follow Up: Eden’s curls

One of our cycad’s new leaves — there’s more about this plant here.

Our cycad is a sago palm or Cycas revoluta, a species of gymnosperm with origins in the Mesozoic era. Revoluta refers to the “curled back” leaves.

A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning
In Eden garden. . .

— Gerard Manley Hopkins, from “Spring“

Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Follow Up is the 16th of every month. Check out more beautiful leaves at Digging.

6 thoughts on “Foliage Follow Up: Eden’s curls”

pbmgarden April 16, 20147:33 am Reply

Nice photo.
1. Cindy at enclos*ure April 16, 20147:41 am Reply
  
  Thanks! I have looked forward to the new leaves every year that we have lived here.
Pam/Digging April 16, 201410:48 pm Reply

What a beautiful, artistic photo. Lovely!
1. Cindy at enclos*ure April 17, 20142:36 am Reply
  
  Thanks! And thanks for hosting Foliage Follow Up.
Diana Studer April 18, 20145:31 pm Reply

with sadness I left 2 cycads in our Camps Bay garden.
1. Cindy at enclos*ure April 19, 20143:24 am Reply
  
  I want to get a couple of potted ones when we get back to Washington, so I can hand them down to my descendants — like the one at Tudor Place from 1813: https://enclosuretakerefuge.com/2012/02/13/the-sago-palms/

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