Category Archives: succulents
Garden Tasks, Dogs & Productivity
I work at home most days of the week and keep this guy fairly close all day. Working alone all day with a dog instead of people has some interesting ramifications. I’m not sure if it makes me any more … Continue reading
Hortus Chaotica
So many contradictions, so little time. A love of spare, austere, sculptural plantings. Yet every summer I still invite the circus to camp in my garden.
Random Senecio
Composite flowers of senecio come paired with an incredible range of leaf forms. A few portraits from one of the largest genera of flowering plants, taken at recent plant shows Senecio fulgens with an Emilia javanica-like flower Senecio tropaeolifolius Senecio … Continue reading
Posted in Plant Portraits, succulents
Tagged Emilia javanica, Senecio fulgens, Senecio jacobsenii, Senecio tropaeolifolius
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Succulent Sunday
The nice man who I gave all my cash to, talking about a miniature agave from Japan he called ‘Shoji.’ (Unlike many of the Japanese A. potatorum hybrids, this one supposedly grows not much bigger than a poker chip.) Cleaned … Continue reading
Kalanchoe delagoensis x daigremontiana “Pink Butterflies”
The entire name wouldn’t even fit in the post title: Kalanchoe delagoensis x daigremontiana ‘Pink Butterflies.’ How fitting that a hybrid with a parent commonly known as ‘Mother of Thousands’ would have a name involving syllables of thousands. I’ve had … Continue reading
Occasional Daily Photos 6/6/11
San Diego Cactus & Succulent Society Plant Show and Sale at Balboa Park (San Diego), California. First-time visit to this amazing show in an open-air courtyard at the Casa Del Prado of Balboa Park. I’ll stick with photos of some … Continue reading
Occasional Daily Photo 6/3/11
The garage was cleaned out yesterday, and I was offered four leftover glass doorknobs. Yes, of course, I need them. I absent-mindedly stuck them in the closest thing to hand, a pot of succulents. Kinda startled me this morning, the … Continue reading
Come Any Time
Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino (Pasadena), California. MB Maher and I visited on Saturday, May 28, 2011. As I wrote here, one of the reasons we visited on Saturday was to catch some puyas in bloom. But there’s always … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden visit, MB Maher, succulents
Tagged Aeonium percarneum, Agave 'Blue Flame', Agave franzosinii, Agave ovatifolia, Bromelia balansae, Colletia paradoxa, Cussonia spicata, Echeveria agavoides, Euphorbia ambohipotsiensis, Euphorbia atropurpurea, Los Angeles Cactus & Succulent Society, Puya spathacea, Puya venusta, San Diego Cactus and Succulent Society
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Walk the Walk
Long Beach Water Department is leading by example to gently ease citizens out of the mindset that wants to seed or unroll mowable turf grass as the default landscape. Who else is better positioned to educate the public on alternative … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, design, succulents
Tagged Agave deserti, Agave shawii, Agave vilmoriniana, Calandrinia grandiflora, California native plants, Carex testacea, decomposed granite paths, Dendromecon rigida, Dymondia margaretae, Erigeron glaucus, Fonquieria splendens, Graptopetalum paraguayense, Heteromeles arbutifolia, Long Beach Water Department, Ocotillo, Sedum rubrotinctum, Stipa tenuissima, Toyon
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Occasional Daily Photo 5/25/11
In a few weeks, the leaf margins of this flapjacks kalanchoe have flared a deep red. Which composes quite a picture with Pelargonium ‘Splendide.’