Category Archives: succulents
Occasional Daily Photos/Lotusland
The clamshell beach at Lotusland Backed by a low retaining wall dripping with dudleyas and other succulents (Thank you, Kathy!)
Posted in garden travel, garden visit, Occasional Daily Photo, succulents
Tagged California, Lotusland, Montecito
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Riches of Rancho Reubidoux
Faithful readers of Reuben Munoz’s blog, Rancho Reubidoux, will have followed Reuben’s decision to join the Riverside Flower Show and Garden Tour, cheering him on as he underwent the harrowing process of qualifying to be on the tour and then … Continue reading
Some Plants to Forget
You won’t be rushing home from work to check on how these plants are holding up on a hot, dry summer day. Just forget about them. Aeonium with a nice, snaky curve, ballota, sedum, golden sedge, and a little pelargonium … Continue reading
Posted in Plant Portraits, succulents
Tagged Aeonium arboreum, Ballota 'All Hallows Green', Ballota acetabulosa, Ballota pseudodictamnus, geraniaceae, Marrubium bourgae, nutmeg geranium, Pelargonium x fragrans 'Joanne's Spring Clover', Robin Parer, scented geraniums, Sedum rupestre 'Angelina', Valerie Finnis
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Senecio crassimus
I don’t see this succulent for sale frequently, or in gardens very often for that matter. Got mine at the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show a couple years back, which coincidentally is opening next week, March 23-27, 2011. If … Continue reading
Succulents in the Landscape
The camera battery charger has been annoyingly misplaced and a new one finally ordered, but it was several l-o-n-g days in coming, at last arriving late afternoon yesterday. At first light I was up, camera in hand, heading straight across … Continue reading
Kalanchoe grandiflora
All succulents can be described as fleshy to some degree, but this kalanchoe is positively indecent, a real fleshpot. A tall, upright succulent to 3 feet. How to describe the color? There actually exists a means to describe the complex … Continue reading
Posted in succulents
Tagged California Cactus Center, Hortus Third, Kalanchoe grandiflora, peachblow, San Marcos Growers
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Deja Vu Plants
In my garden, succulents are the deja vu plants extraordinaire. New acquisitions can look suspiciously familiar because, in fact, they have been brought home before. Maybe they became submerged under rampant growers, like the soft-leaved yucca I just unearthed when … Continue reading
Rediscovering Agave guadalajarana
My memory of the name of this agave planted years ago in the front garden went as far as guada-something. Easy enough to plug in a partial search string, right? Yet searches always narrowed down to the most likely suspect, … Continue reading
Bold Succulents at the Seashore
Out for a walk at the beach with the corgi today, these imposingly tall jars of succulents on a porch caught my eye across four lanes of traffic. (There’s always ample opportunity to survey the surrounding area when walking Ein, … Continue reading
Posted in garden ornament, succulents, The Hortorialist
Tagged aeonium, Echeveria, Portulacaria afra, Senecio radicans, succulent containers
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Foliage Follow-Up December 2010
When asked only for a show of leaves, my zone 10 garden in December can give a much less angst-ridden performance than, for example, yesterday’s post, which was drawing solely on flower output. Today I realized I forgot to include … Continue reading
Posted in agaves, woody lilies, Plant Portraits, succulents
Tagged angelica pachycarpa, Annies Annuals, Begonia luxurians, Canna 'Bengal Tiger', Canna 'Intrigue', Coprosma 'County Park Red', Euphorbia characias, Foliage Follow-up, Helleborus argutifolius, Mangave 'Bloodspot', Rachel Warne, Tibouchina heteromalla
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