Category Archives: succulents

driveby agave garden revisited

Posted on May 25, 2014 by Denise

I’ve been thinking of Jud’s garden. Did the recent unseasonal heat waves bruise any agaves? I didn’t memorize the address, so it took a while to find again, which seems to be a recurring theme with this garden. Was it … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, driveby gardens, succulents | Tagged Agave americana var. medio-picta 'Alba', Agave ferdinandi-regis, Beaucarnia recurvata, Euphorbia ammak, Sticks on Fired/Euphorbia tirucalli, Yucca rostrata | 10 Comments

a long weekend (and a local plant sale)

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Denise

Name me three other words in the English language that can be strung together to produce as exciting an effect as A…Long…Weekend. The pergola table will have to be cleared for weekend breakfasts and dinners. (I never seem to eat … Continue reading →

Posted in garden visit, plant nurseries, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged Dustin Gimbel's June 14th plant sale, Memorial Day Weekend, Sonchus canariensis, three-day weekends | 3 Comments

Bloom Day May 2014

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Denise

Thank goodness, unlike me, some like it hot, such as Dalea purpurea, the Purple Prairie Clover. Zoned only as far as 8* and not recommended too far south, so zone 10 was a gamble as far as lack of winter … Continue reading →

Posted in Bloom Day, Plant Portraits, succulents | Tagged Agave schidigera 'Shira ito no Ohi', Briza maxima, Cotyledon orbiculata var. flanaganii, Dalea purpurea, Gaillardia 'Oranges & Lemons', Glaucium grandiflorum, nicotiana, Solanum pyracanthum, The High Line Park | 7 Comments

a succulent table (filed under fun but useless things)

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Denise

If I wake up to a day that has a few extra hours rattling around like loose change in the pockets of Marty’s jeans that I always borrow, clinking against paper clips and last night’s Peroni bottle cap, it’s pretty … Continue reading →

Posted in garden ornament, succulents | Tagged Aeonium 'Kiwi', cactus benches, Ceanothus 'Tuxedo', Cupressus macrocarpa 'Citriodora', Euphorbia lambii, fasciation, furcraea, Leucospermum 'Sunrise', Monterey Cypress, Pennisetum 'Sky Rocket' | 4 Comments

this is my brain on spring

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Denise

Spring is such a massive distraction, and that’s coming from just my own little garden, which apart from work* I rarely want to leave. For the first time in my adult life, I drove by a multiplex theater on Sunday … Continue reading →

Posted in garden travel, plant nurseries, succulents | Tagged alcantarea, Andy's Orchids, bromeliads, Cerbera odollam, Cosmos 'Yellow Garden', eiphyllums, Entada sp., epidendrums, Graptopetalum pentandrum ssp. superbum, Graptopetalum superbum 'Cotton Candy', rhipsalis sp., Southern California Spring Garden Show 2014, tillandsias | 7 Comments

planting notes 2014

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Denise

Every year brings a new crop of preoccupations in the garden, such as: Will the beschorneria choose this spring for their first bloom? How about the puya in the gravel garden? Feel like blooming this year? Some plants really do … Continue reading →

Posted in clippings, garden travel, journal, plant nurseries, succulents | Tagged Aloe marlothii x castanea, Anigozanthos 'Yellow Gem', Annie's Annuals & Perennials Nursery, Asphodeline lutea, Beschorneria X 'Martin Grantham Hybrids', Cirsium occidentale, Cistus 'Snow Fire', Crambe maritima, Eryngium padanifolium, Glaucium grandiflorum, Lessertia montana, Leucadendron 'Ebony', Puya mirabilis, Ricinus communis 'New Zealand Purple', self-sowers, Sideritis oroteneriffae | 5 Comments

rhipsalis in the Bay Area

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Denise

I was up in the Bay Area for two days, helping to launch a vegetable garden, which was just enough time to squeeze in a couple brief plant shopping forays at Flora Grubb Gardens and Annie’s Annuals & Perennials. At … Continue reading →

Posted in plant nurseries, pots and containers, succulents | Tagged Annie's Annuals & Perennials, Colocasia esculenta 'Lime Fizzy', Flora Grubb Gardens, Rhipsalis burchellii, Rhipsalis sulcata, Sedum treleasi, Sedum x adolphii ‘Golden Sedum’ | 4 Comments

green walls around town

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Denise

The Smog Shoppe, a special event venue in Culver City owned by Woolly Pocket creator Miguel Nelson, famously deployed the pockets on its cinder-block facade in 2009, which has since been regularly reported on by local media and blogs. I’d … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, design, driveby gardens, succulents | Tagged aeoniums, Agave attenuata, California, Crassula multicava, Culver City, designer Miguel Nelson, green walls, Senecio mandraliscae, Senecio vitalis, Singapore, the Garden City, The Smog Shoppe, Woolly Pockets | Comments Off

tuesday clippings 4/1/14

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Denise

I sat down Sunday to write about the flu, earthquakes, and plant shows, but the blog server was down, so Sunday’s clippings has become Tuesday’s. And with the building I worked at today undergoing a bomb threat, I can’t remember … Continue reading →

Posted in clippings, journal, succulents | Tagged Beaucarnia recurvata, Digiplexis 'Illumination Flame', Echeveria 'Ebony', Graptopetalum pentandrum ssp. superbum, Graptopetalum superbum, Nicotiana 'Ondra's Brown Mix', Papaver setigerum, Tillandsia fasciculata | 4 Comments

the desert gardens of Steve Martino

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Denise

I’m checking the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days website daily now, anxiously awaiting full publication of this year’s schedule. I’m expanding my radius to include Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, Palm Springs, California, New Mexico, anyplace I’ll be likely to find some … Continue reading →

Posted in agaves, woody lilies, garden travel, garden visit, succulents | Tagged desert gardens, Garden Conservancy Open Days, landscape artchitect Steve Martino | 5 Comments