Cactus Blog

I have finally gotten it all together and we now have a page for Airplants for the Bay Area.

Airplant Terrarium

It’s not a very complete page yet since I have lots of photos to take. It could take awhile to get the rest of the tillandsias photographed.

Tillandsia utriculata v. “Prengelii”

Sedeveria “Blue” may be S. “Blue Mist” or S. “Blue Giant” but I don’t know for sure, so we have named it S. “Blue” to cover all our bases. And pretty bases they are!

Why is it that Dragons like to hang out among the succulents so much? It’s a mystery.

Thanks Cheri for the heads-up to this craigslist listing in Berkeley. They’re local! And awesome!

I still go into San Francisco to see my dentist and what do I see but new Succulent bowls, mostly Echeveria, at the Embarcadero Center. They look very freshly planted, so we’ll see how well they’ve done next time I visit – in 6 months of course.

Nice succulents. I see Echeveria and Echeveria and more Echeveria. Maybe a Pachyveria too.

A healthy Christmas Cactus bloom color.

Carole made us this amazing needlepoint cactus.

It’s a very fruitful prickly pear. Thanks Carole!

This is our most popular whippet video – almost 20,000 hits!

Yesterday’s stormy rain left us with moist succulents.

Kalanchoe

Crassula

Senecio

Yesterdays stormy rain is over and today it is gorgeous and sunny.

We were very busy yesterday, and now what can we expect for today? -  the last day we are open for the year.

In case you were wondering, we do have a few more wooden succulent wall panels available for sale on this last day to buy your loved ones a beautiful and delicious Christmas present. (Open ’til 5:oo).

It may be a very rainy day today, but we’re here for you. Today and tomorrow we are staying open all the way to 5pm. Because we care.

Only three more days to go.

Here’s the Christmas Cactus last week.

Apparently the town next to Berkeley, Emeryville, is no longer part of California.

Hah, I’m just joking.

Here we see someone at the local mall who thinks that California native plants include spurges. They don’t!

And here we see that the entire garden is filled with non-natives – not a native to be seen. Shall we list them out?

Euphorbia from Europe, Senecio from South Africa, Chondropetalum from South Africa, Aeoniums from the Canary Islands, Sedums from Asia.

Actually, it’s a pretty nice drought-tolerant Mediterranean style garden, so I shouldn’t complain that they put out one or two silly native signs.

Wow! That was a heck of a lot of filtering software to get the image to look that stupid.

Here’s the original photo. (more…)

Everyone loves making the mixed succulent pots.

These are just a few special succulents in hand-made artist pots by Carey Cherney.