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And the End of the Break is Nigh
I’m back! And now there are 4 whippets at the nursery for the next 3-4 weeks, so come on by and say hi to everyone.
That’s Benjamin and Jason, of course, and visiting from Santa Cruz is Benjamin’s sister Amica, and cousin Jaxx. Jaxx is the one facing forward.
Everyone can now do a happy dance.
Random Succulents on the Tumblr’s
Very fashionable. I especially like the small fish swimming in front.
I see The Indoor Garden(er) got his stapeliad back to DC safely from Berkeley. The story of how this Stapelia got to DC started in Iowa, where Plants Are The Strangest People blogged about one first, leading The Indoor garden(er) to stop by the store and pick one up on his travels.
Iowa –> DC –> Berkeley
The circle of life!
By the way, we subscribe to the Stapelia theory of stapeliads, and do not approve of the Orbea theory of stapeliads.
Random Euphorbia Blogging, As Seen on Tumblr
from Nicholas Buffon # via Kactaceae
Around the BlogSpherical-o-Sphere Including Cactus
It’s Cactus Monday at a Succulent Life and there’s a cactus ring and a cactus with cat mascot watercolor. You have to look closely to see the tiny saguaros on the ring, but it’s worth it.
Mark’s Protea cynaroides is not yet blooming, but he snapped a picture of one at the SF Botanical Garden and it’s a big bloom indeed.
From bloglet. And don’t miss the cactus from the San Diego Zoo that also needs to be weeded. I always see the weeds poking out between the spines on those golden barrels.
From sitting-looking, who took the picture from a Harpers from 1897. That’s awhile ago.
I see prickly pear cactus and bicycles, a standard combination for men with guns back in the 19th century.
Luther from Oregon Cactus Blog captured a variegated Euphorbia milii on film. That’s some strong variegation. No subtleties at all.
They’re so waxy and all…
Plants are the Strangest People has some Hoya bella flowers going right now. Some scent, not too much.
Nice!
Sweetstuff Sassy Succulents has found a new use for old Father’s Day Gifts gone awry – make a hanging succulent wall unit out of it. In this case, it’s a BBQ grill cage stuffed and planted and hung.
Around the Blogosucculentosphere in Asia
Hort Log has some beautiful Hoya lasiantha bloom photos. They claim they look like molars, but I think they look more like bats. Yes, I said it, they look like little yellow bats hanging down from the top of a tiny dark cave.
What, you haven’t clicked over yet? Stopped reading this and click over.
Yvonne and Herman post succulent photos, including some transplanted into South Africa Cactus, at Life in a village named Stanford. Nice selection.
However, I’m not sure I would click this link to the spider photo on their blog.
As long as we’re talking about orchids on the blog just before Mother’s Day, we see that Plantgasm has had a Mother’s Day miracle!
It’s a Dendrobium seed pod, in a post called I Think I Impregnated My Dendrobium. Here’s the flowers.
My Back 40 has been walking the Bernal Heights neighborhood recently and took a lot of pictures. Did I say a lot? I mean A LOT. Don’t click over unless you have a few minutes to stroll through the photos. Some nice succulents mixed in among all the other crazy plants and stuff.
Irises, Echiums, Aeoniums, Agaves, and a really giant Fremontodendron…
For some reason there’s even a Pittosporum.
Enough photos that all you people who have never walked through the gardens of a San Francisco neighborhood will get a really good idea of what that’s like.
What’s the latest trend in gardening? Growing your vegetables in the airport.
From Our Little Acre, pictures from O’Hare including ripe red tomatoes.
So do you agree that this is a trend? Am I on top of the trendspotting? Airport gardening?
