Cactus Blog

Oscularia deltoides coming into bloom, with a Senecio too. Nice massing.

College Avenue, Berkeley
Prickly Pear Cactus about to bloom

Aloe in full bloom

Prickly Pear Cactus
Sacramento Street, Berkeley

Out front of Moxy Beer Garden. They’re new!

Bonus shot of Prickly Pear Cactus Row at the Cactus Jungle

Telegragh Ave., Oakland, CA

You never know where you’ll find a few succulents hanging out. These succulents are in Oakland, which is not too surprising. And in the Temescal neighborhood, which makes sense and all. But as a hanging basket of Crassula and Sedum in front of an outdoor seating area at a pizza joint? Shocking!

Just go to shows you can find succulents anywhere these days.

4th Street, Berkeley
Delospermas in bloom

OK, so this isn’t just any Succulent garden in Berkeley, it’s the front bed in front of the store. Our address? It’s on Fourth Street. So there. Prove me wrong!

Pardee Street
Pachyphytum longifolium

5th Street, Berkeley

Aloe saponaria coming into bloom and Aloe arborescens.

I’ll need to come back in a week or two to check out the full bloom spike when open.

9th Street
Aloe arborescens

There are aloes blooming all over town. Everywhere you look there are winter blooming orange tubular flowers. The hummingbirds are very happy, so one can presume.

Interesting how well these South Africa succulents have adapted.

Aloe variegata in bud. Also known as the Partridge Aloe, or more precisely one of the 2 Partridge Aloes.

San Pablo Ave.
Aloe ciliaris in bloom.

Joseph’s latest mixed succulent pot in a Urban Farmgirls hypertufa pot.

Nice!

The Delosperma “Fire Spinner” is in bloom in the lovely Urban Farmgirls trough. The plants are so very green. The flower is practically too colorful.

Ron and Doris are growing a stapeliad outside, and successfully, too! Semi-hardy in the Bay Area, it’s planted under the protection of a larger cactus.

Caralluma piaranthoides

These are some of the prettiest of the carrion flowers, and not too smelly especially when they are successfully blooming outside in the garden. You might find some beetles come find these flowers, but everyone loves them some beetles. And more blooms coming!

And here’s a bonus Echinopsis fruit from their garden. If those seeds drop….

Crassula falcata and Agave attenuata

Fortunately it’s just the Crassula in bloom. Up the street a number of Agaves are blooming all at once.

Agave americana on San Pablo Ave. at night.

And here’s the google maps streetview version during the day.

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It’s an Agave in bloom. And you know what that means – lots of local news coverage follows!

Proctor Ave, Oakland.

Ashby Avenue

Some really nice specimens in this garden. Well tended, too.

Too many different species for me to go about naming them for you, so you’re on your own.

Aeonium subplanum
9th Street

This is a pretty significant bloom spray off this plant, which will be the end of that plant. All gone.

Aeonium subplanum
9th Street

And a bonus Asclepias!

Just off San Pablo Ave. Aeonium atropurpureum and Aloe ciliaris, together in one tidy planter. At least until the Aloe starts climbing 4 or 5 feet up the window.