daily news and photography about cacti and succulents
and some california natives too
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Mr. Subjunctive links to a site with some startlingly close-up photos of cactus.
Did I mention the startle factor?
It’s called A Closeup Look at Some Members of the Cactus Family, or some such thing. And it’s by a Canadian who goes by Brian Johnston, according to the site. Did I mention how cool it is?
Jenny at J Peterson Blog has a tree trunk photo. Oh, and it’s covered in caterpillars. Oh Nos! I’ll bet they’ve already stripped those leaves bare.
I see that Mr. Subjunctive is planning for the zombie apocalypse by buying plants. An excellent strategy, indeed!
He has a number of excellent succulent choices, including the ever fascinating Pedilanthus, and some other houseplant thingys too. I think he should also add astelia to his list. And you? What are you doing to prepare for the zombies?
Debra Lee Baldwin’s Agave potatorum is starting to bloom, as told on Gardening Gone Wild.
She wonders what to do with all the plantlets that will result. Any ideas of how she can share them, maybe while on her book tour?
My twitter friend @kotemaro grows succulents in Hokkaido, and has some new seedlings growing on his website. No english, but lots of succulent pictures.
This is the caption below the photo of the seedlings:
花物メセンの実生
ちょっとー何これ♪ 可愛いんですけどー！
So go check out the picture, and see if you can figure out what it is. Then come back here and let me know what you’ve come up with.
Matti from Far Out Flora has very crisp photos of some 1 year old seedlings in a bull pot.
Idora design had trouble picking paint colors, so they hired a colorist. They should have hired me! I do color selection, too you know. What, you don’t know?
Despite the fact that I attended fancy-pants art school, we ended up having to get a colorist to help us pick paint for our house. It’s embarrassing, but it really worked out. If anyone has a purpose for quarts of some wierd colors I bought pre-colorist, I’m your girl!
They also linked to us at the cactusblog in this post, so a link back seemed like the least I could do.
Life on the Balcony went to Knott’s Berry Farm, the other amusement park in Anaheim, and found green roofed trash cans! She let us post a picture, but I think there’ll be more photos on her blog soon, too.
Here’s another green roof project in Orange County.
The commissioners recently approved funding for a green roof for the Sustainable Technologies Building and a wastewater recycle system to serve that building and the (Central Carolina Community College’s) Chatham Community Library, which is also going up at the campus…. “The commissioners felt that sustainable technologies are a critical part of CCCC-Chatham,”
Of course, that will be Orange County, NC.
Well how about this one, another green roof in Orange County.
it’s Hartford’s Hollander Center, a LEED-EB candidate that recently broke out the first green roof in Connecticut’s capital city.
OK, so this must be from a green company based in Orange, CT. Shall we try one more time? One more attempt at a green roof in Orange County?
Duke Medicine’s commitment to sustainabililty has reached new heights with Duke University Hospital’s recently completed green roof project.
A green roof features vegetation planted over a waterproofing membrane. Besides being nice to look at, green roof vegetation can enhance the energy performance of a building by mitigating heat.
Well, at least they’ve established a succulent farm for new green roof projects in North Carolina.
Last year, Duke Medicine helped sponsor the creation of a local sedum farm in Orange County, North Carolina. The farm is growing the pre-cultivated mats with sedum species more indigenous to our climate.
There’s that Orange County again! Curse you google!
Well, back to California, apparently the Irvine Medical Center has a green roof, but I can’t find a photo.
From using twitter recently, I’ve been discovering all kinds of new garden blogs. In fact, I may have already linked to some of these, but anyway here are a few to check out.
Donegan Landscaping in Dublin (Ireland).
Our Little Acre is somewhere in rural Ohio, but that’s a good thing.
J Peterson Garden Design is one of many garden bloggers in Austin, in the heart of Texas.
Finally! A San Francisco blogger! My Back 40 (Feet).
Far Out Flora has some very clear photos of tillandsias, even in bloom, and even quite beautiful. So many epiphytic bromeliads, so little time.
Snappy’s Garden Blog from Wakefield : Yorkshire : United Kingdom has an Echeveria imbricata that has survived the Yorkshire winter! Yay!
And there were some cormarants, spring bulbs, a sister’s birthday and a landlord threat. That’s a full blog post.
Fern at Life on the Balcony took a lot of photos of succulents at the Huntington Gardens near Pasadena.
It’s always a joy to walk the grounds of the Huntington, home of some of the largest succulent specimens seen in captivity, and Life on the Balcony does a good job of capturing that.
Nice Fockea.
Bay Area Tendrils has an old post up with lots of edible-style green roofs to visit.
I see succulents in there too, sedums amongst them. And summertime sunshine.
i am dianthus has an amazing photo of a Pachyphytum oviferum, also known as Moonglow.
Danger Garden visited The streets of Fillmore, California and found a lot of agaves. Some other plants too, but mostly agaves. I see A. americana, A. neomexicana, A. lophantha, A. marginata, A. attenuata, A. parryi and yuccas too, I almost forgot the yuccas.
A Growing Delight in Canberra has regular visit from their local magpies, and the hoyas are about to bloom! Photos of the birds and the flower buds are included.
chuck b. of My Back 40(Feet) has some big and juicy rock photos of Tahquitz Canyon outside Palm Springs. I highly recommend the photo with the little tufts of grasses poking through.
Affordable Accoutrements has a cactus on the table.
A very scenic photo ensues. (”Scenic” in the old-english-countryside-with-follies sense of the word.)
