{"id":39277,"date":"2013-03-23T14:01:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=39277"},"modified":"2020-02-23T19:45:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T23:45:24","slug":"its-show-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=39277","title":{"rendered":"it’s show time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I planted out in the garden the remaining plants I brought home from last summer’s travels<\/a>. All winter I eyed these purchases nervously, as though they were exhibits in a trial of my weak character. I knew they were impulse buys of wonderful plants I had no business bringing home, since there wasn’t a jot of garden space available to them. And the long rainless season of daily watering of pots is almost here, and what if I missed a few days and these lovelies died on my watch? They needed to get their roots into the garden before summer or there’d be no doubt left that I sacrifice beautiful plants on the altar of thoughtless acquisition. Then the clouds parted, a huge clump of wayward blue lyme grass was removed from the front garden and the Cassinia X ozothamnus<\/a> from Far Reaches Farm was planted in its place. Suddenly, I had very few plants in pots to care for and my conscience was clear. And just in time for the season of plant sales. How about that for timing!<\/p>\n

This weekend is the Orange County Cactus and Succulent Society’s Spring Show and Sale<\/a>. I had a couple free hours yesterday, the opening day. You can’t get into too much trouble at a succulent sale if you stick to the small stuff.<\/p>\n

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Echeveria multicaulis<\/p>\n

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But within seconds of entering the sale room, I saw a couple of the tree-like Euphorbia ammak. I grabbed one quick and placed it securely in the temporary holding area. The big specimens at local nurseries are out of my price range. About a foot and a half high for $10 was exactly what I’ve been looking for.<\/p>\n

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And so the internal logic of plant sales takes over. I need this because<\/em>…and then the next morning, when the fog of plant sale mania has lifted, you’re faced with a box filled with a very odd assortment of plants. And it’s nearly as much fun as the sale going over them again, checking out this unlikely group of plants all now sharing space in a cardboard box because of some whim of taste.<\/p>\n

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I leaned heavily toward bromeliads this year and found a lot to like at this table, bromeliads new to me like hechtias and pitcairnias. The tall green one on the left, a Neoregelia ‘Devroe’ came home with me.<\/p>\n

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Neoregelia ‘Punctatissima Rubra’ x ‘Tigrina’<\/p>\n

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A grassy-ish bromeliad, a species pitcairnia, which I was told wants constant moisture, so regular potting soil will be OK.<\/p>\n

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Hechtia epigyna, a small bromeliad from Mexico<\/p>\n

Two more days of this nice little show left. As I was leaving with my cardboard boxes filled, another attendee and I wondered if there would be different plants, maybe better plants on Saturday and Sunday. Maybe they held back the best for the weekend?<\/p>\n

Yes, it’s definitely show time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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