Cactus Blog

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Here we have a friendly couple, with a couple of friendly dogs, who came into the nursery with a large trough to fill, and they picked out some lovely cacti. Spiny cacti, even. Poor dog. Well, the blooms are going crazy all over.

I’ll feature my own photo of the mammillaria (the one on the left) tomorrow, from before they planted it.

Hi Peter, Hi Hap:

Attached please find pictures of our antique Chinese water trough filled with your beautiful cacti!
Check out the blooms on the tall one!!

You may remember us from the pottery art show, and due to our little dogs.
Also, my orchid is blooming again thanks to your help.

Best,

The Bingleys

Harriet Love - New Pottery
Opening tonight, April 18, 4-6pm at the nursery.
Cactus Jungle Nursery and Garden
1509 4th Street, Berkeley

Please come and share our wine and cheese and crackers, ’cause if you don’t we’ll be very sad, and we’ll eat too much and drink too much, and then maybe we’ll have fun anyway. But really, you know, you should come.

Harriet Love - New Pottery

We’re having our first ever art exhibit. April 18 - May 31.
Opening night party is Friday April 18, 4-6pm at the nursery, and we’re very excited, so we hope you can come.

Jacob and Mica are visiting the nursery today, and tomorrow too!

Yesterday we found three eggs in their pen. They’ve been very busy. I forgot to bring a cable to connect the camera to the computer, so you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see them, unless you come in to visit.

We’ve been working on getting together a pottery exhibition of new work by Harriet Love. Here is one we have potted up as a mixed succulent pot.

The opening night party is Friday, April 18, 4-6pm at the nursery. We’ll have wine and cheese, just like a gallery would! Woohoo!

While taking pictures of our new signs, I caught Samuella Smith at work on the Oreocereuses. Do you think she’ll ask me to take this down when she finds out about it? We’re taking bets now…

Euphorbia characias c.v. “Bruce’s Dwarf”

It’s the dreaded chartreuse blooms. Everybody asks if there really are any chartreuse blooms, and I always tell them no. No there aren’t any chartreuse blooms. But I’m lying. Not only does this spurge bloom chartreuse, but so does the Echinocereus viridiflorus.

In case you were wondering what chartreuse really means, considering that there’s a picture right above that you might not believe your own eyes, here’s the wikipedia traditional chartreuse sample for your perusal.

Peter Hartlaub at the <a href="http://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1814&amp;entry_id=1632" title="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/05/DD3GUNSK6.DTL&hw=hartlaub&sn=001&sc=1000" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/05/DD3GUNSK6.DTL&hw=hartlaub&sn=001&sc=1000′;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">San Francisco Chronicle</a> has an article in today’s paper about what local goods you can spend your soon-to-be-approved-by-congress tax rebate on. And we made the cut!<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Not only is it unnecessary to use this money to pay down debt, it’s practically un-American. The government wants you to spend it on stuff…<br />
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&quot;To be useful, a fiscal stimulus package should be… structured so that its effects on aggregate spending are felt as much as possible within the next twelve months or so,&quot; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress… Translation for those who don’t speak Bernanke-ese: Spend that money… Just make sure it goes back into the economy….<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Cactus: Do you have any idea how many cacti you can buy for $1,200? Actually, that will buy you only half a cactus if you get one of the biggest ones at Cactus Jungle. But you can also get 340 really small ones at this awesome Berkeley cactus and bamboo retailer.</span></span><br /></div><br />Woohoo! And there’s a photo too!<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br /><img width="272" hspace="5" height="420" border="2" src="/blog/uploads/misc/dd_pop30004rad.jpg" /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span></div>

The nursewry ios back opdewn aftwre oiuur winter break, and iut’s a cold manmd<br /><br />OK, that didn’t work with my gloves on. What I was trying to say is that we’re open after our winter break and unfortunately it’s cold and rainy and kinda miserable out here, so come by and pay us a visit so we’re not so miserable. That was all.<br /><br />Oh yeah, and Go Pats!<br /><br />

Did I tell you that the nursery is reopening this Friday, Feb. 1? 10:00am, rain or shine. It’s been a very busy January, indeed. We’ve loaded up the nursery with all kinds of new plants and tools and fertilizers and bird feeders and other stuff too. Are you getting our monthly email? No? <a href="http://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1804&amp;entry_id=1612" title="http://www.cactusjungle.com/contact.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.cactusjungle.com/contact.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Then go here and sign up</a>, for gosh sakes, and you’ll be just in time to get our February email later this week.<br /><br />

The <a href="http://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1691&amp;entry_id=1494" title="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/12/DDIETS6M3.DTL" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/12/DDIETS6M3.DTL’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">SF Chronicle</a> writes about the new Sundance Kabuki Theater in SF and features a photo of the bamboo we installed there.<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><img width="272" hspace="5" height="420" border="0" src="/blog/uploads/misc/dd_sundance12069lh.jpg" /><br /> Tall bamboo stalks rise from rusted steel planters in the lobby, which is finished with weathered, reclaimed lumber, stone and teal-blue ceramic tile. </span><br /></div><br />It’s a cold morning. I think I’ll start a fire soon.<br /><br />