{"id":18645,"date":"2011-06-13T12:09:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=18645"},"modified":"2011-06-13T12:31:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:31:07","slug":"succulent-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=18645","title":{"rendered":"Succulent Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The nice man who I gave all my cash to, talking about a miniature agave from Japan he called ‘Shoji.’
\n(Unlike many of the Japanese A. potatorum hybrids, this one supposedly grows not much bigger than a poker chip.)<\/p>\n

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Cleaned out, and I hadn’t been at the show five minutes. His was the first table I stopped by at the Los Angeles Cactus and Succulent Society<\/a> Plant Show and Sale held this Sunday, June 12, lured in by his variegated sport of Kalanchoe beharensis and this Aeonium smithii.<\/p>\n

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I couldn’t leave Kalanchoe synsepala on his table either.<\/p>\n

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Like Vegas, you have to develop a plan to stretch whatever resources you came with for the duration. But I don’t see how this is possible at plant shows.
\nThere’s just too many fascinating, smooth-talking characters with backyard hybridization stories to part you from your money, like a John Laroche behind every plant sale table, right out of Susan Orlean’s<\/a> The Orchid Thief<\/em>. And by that reference, I’m not implying any chicanery, just lifelong, obsessional love for plants.<\/p>\n

I was later tempted by a small $7 Agave ‘Creme Brulee,’ but did no further shopping and just basked in the show atmosphere.<\/p>\n

Unnamed bromeliad hybrids in bloom.<\/p>\n

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Though I did harass at least three people to find the correct name of this bromeliad, which was mislabeled on the show table. None were for sale.
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Billbergia sanderiana is officially on the Future Plant Purchases list.
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And since I was up in the Valley anyway for the show, I checked out the succulent and cactus nursery California Nursery Specialists<\/a> a few minutes away in Reseda. They are commercial growers open to the public on Saturday and Sunday. The experience was a bit overwhelming, to say the least.<\/p>\n

Endless vistas of Echeveria subrigida <\/p>\n

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Narrow walkways, hanging pots overhead. Dark red leaves are Crassula marginalis with string of pearls, Senecio rowleyanus.<\/p>\n

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And nursery houses after nursery house, each suffocatingly hot, although outside temps were mild, in the 70’s. <\/p>\n

The heat, the shapes, the colors. (There was a table loaded with the ‘Pink Butterflies’ kalanchoe I blogged about yesterday.)<\/p>\n

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I bought a couple Echeveria ‘Metallica’ and a small Agave angustifolia \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMarginata.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Reasonable prices, overwhelming selection.<\/p>\n

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