Apparently there’s a newspaper in the next town over from Berkeley and they have a cactus that blooms so it’s featured in the newspaper every year. They don’t know what it is, but they don’t stop over here and ask us, now do they? Reporters should call us you know, we’d answer all their questions for them.
Long-time residents know that the plants bloom once a year, subject to the vagaries of weather and traffic. At one time, there were more cacti in the group with multi-colored flowers, but so far this year we just have a single bloom atop one plant.
Gardeners will probably know the names of the plants, but for most of us, the beauty is in the patterns and the blooms.
Geez, don’t reporters have phones anymore?
Not sure what variety of succulent this might be, but it’s an interesting visual effect.
Oh, the humanity. Should we tell them what they are?
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July 27th, 2011 at 3:27 pm
No. Didn’t you read? “The beauty is in the patterns and the blooms,” not in, you know, knowing names and crap, which is for pointy-headed intellectuals or something. What do you think the purpose of a newspaper is? To inform people about things? Psshh.
July 27th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Nope. Let ‘em crawl like the rest of us. =0)
July 28th, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Heh. I like Amy’s answer. If they wanted to know, they’d pick up a dang book. Duh.
This is a NEWSPAPER?
I weep.
July 29th, 2011 at 4:17 am
The plant at the bottom is an Agave. I don’t know wich specie, but it’s an Agave
July 30th, 2011 at 8:19 am
Ha! I read this online (El Cerrito Patch) and all I thought at the time was, I gotta get over there to check out that Cactus Corner on Arlington! Your take on the article made me laugh.