Category Archives: plant nurseries
unidentified fabulous grass/sedge (Chloris virgata)
I’ve gone through a couple online plant catalogues this morning and checked out the online index to John Greenlee’s Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses. Nada. Still no ID. I brought this grass home from Western Hills long ago, when Maggie Wych … Continue reading
succulents around town
I’ve been accumulating photos of the ever-present succulent arrangements I see all over town. All over town might be an exaggeration. It’s just possible that I tend to gravitate to places where there will be succulents. But there’s no denying … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, plant nurseries, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Aeonium 'Kiwi', Aeonium balsamiferum, Agave 'Blue Glow', Agave americana 'Variegata', Culver City, dyckias, Echeveria agavoides, Echeveria cante, Echeveria peacockii, Echeveria prolifica, Echeveria subsessilis 'Variegata', Euphorbia tirucalli, Furcraea macdougalii, Inner Gardens, knotwork, Portulacaria afra, Rolling Greens Culver City, Sedum morganianum, Senecio radicans, Spring Garden Show at South Coast Plaza
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Rolling Greens Culver City (tillandsia porn)
A fresh shipment of tillandsias had just arrived when I visited Rolling Greens yesterday for their 75 percent-off sale, which ends today. Almost all of these little bromeliads were in bloom or about to bloom. Lordy. Like agaves, most tillandsias … Continue reading
Posted in design, plant nurseries
Tagged bromeliads, monocarpism, Rolling Greens Culver City, tillandsias
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more poppy drama
Ferocious winds all day Monday left the poppies leaning, some struck down entirely by Tuesday morning. I was clipping off broken branches and thinning, trying to trim their sail should the winds return, when Marty walked through noting, “Hey, that … Continue reading
Posted in creatures, plant nurseries, Plant Portraits
Tagged Annie's Annuals & Perennials, annual poppies, bees, Papaver setigerum
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birthday plants
My birthday took up just about every single day last week, and more days on the weekend, which is how I rationalized a trip on Saturday to find that hitherto unknown-to-me, unmet, spectacular plant that would forever after be marked … Continue reading
Posted in plant crushes, plant nurseries, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Annie's Annuals & Perennials, Australian Native Plants Nursery, bromeliads, echeverias, Leucospermum cordifolium 'Yellow Bird, pincushion proteas, Roger's Gardens, South African plants, succulent containers, Ursinia anthemoides 'Solar Flare'
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March evening/April morning
Walking off Easter dinner, what caught my eye last evening was a petite bloom on the melianthus, the first I’ve seen on this cultivar ‘Purple Haze.’ I’m really starting to believe now it is the holy grail, a dwarf melianthus, … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden travel, plant nurseries, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged Agave gypsophila, Argemone munita, Buck & Yvonne Hemenway annual garden tour/plant sale, Dustin Gimbel Second Nature Garden Design, Gasteria 'Little Warty', Linaria 'Licilia Peach', Papaver setigerum, Pilocereus azureus
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it’s show time
Last week I planted out in the garden the remaining plants I brought home from last summer’s travels. All winter I eyed these purchases nervously, as though they were exhibits in a trial of my weak character. I knew they … Continue reading
Posted in garden travel, plant nurseries, Plant Portraits, pots and containers, succulents
Tagged bromeliads, Cassinia X ozothamnus, Echeveria multicaulis, Euphorbia ammak, Far Reaches Farm, Hechtia epigyna, Neoregelia 'Devroe', Neoregelia 'Punctatissima Rubra' x 'Tigrina, Orange County Cactus and Succulent Society, pitcairnia, plant sales, plant shows
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clippings 2/26/13
Work has piled up, so there’s little time for much else. But something I can always squeeze in while under deadlines are small breaks to read catalogue descriptions of plants. And with impeccable timing, a great Australian plant nursery catalogue … Continue reading
passionflower
Passiflora loefgrenii, also known as the garlic passionfruit vine from Brazil, is making an unlikely, late-December flowering debut in my garden. This December show is probably a one-time fluke for a summer bloomer that will settle down to a more … Continue reading
Posted in plant nurseries, Plant Portraits
Tagged Andrew Zuckerman, Annie's Annuals & Perennials, carpenter bees, Garlic Passionfruit, Kartuz Greenhouses, Logee's Plants for Home & Garden, North Amercian Butterfly Association, Passiflora loefgrenii, passion flowers, Smithsonian Collage of Arts and Sciences, vines
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sunday clippings 12/16/12
I was skimming through the design archives of the Wall Street Journal online yesterday, a wonderful trove of good reading, and recognized the pressed leaves of Macleaya cordata, the plume poppy, used by the shoe designer Christian Louboutin to decorate … Continue reading
Posted in clippings, plant nurseries
Tagged Annie's Annuals & Perennials, Centranthus ruber 'Alba', Christian Louboutin, Crithmum maritimum, Erodium pelargoniflorum, Geranium maderense 'Alba', Geranium pyrenaicum 'Bill Wallis', Macleaya cordata, Mina lobata, Mirabilis jalapa 'Limelight', Orlaya grandiflora, Passiflora loefgrenii, pressed leaves, reseeding plants, Senecio stellata, Solanum pyracantha, Teucrium hircanicum, The Wall Street Journal, Thompson & Morgan seeds
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