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.

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.

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.

We delivered some new pots to one of our regular customers and while there I took photos of some of their cactus pots we set up for them a few years ago.

I see the plants have grown in nicely. Maybe a bit TOO nicely, if you know what I mean.

No, you don’t know what I mean? Oh. I mean it’s overgrown – that it’s time to start pulling a few plants out and propagating some of them and replanting them with more space to grow again over the next few years.

And this is a stunning specimen Opuntia saxitilis in the almost-sunset light. It was a mere baby when it was planted. Now look how big its grown.

Echinocereus pectinatus v. rubispinus

We took another plant off the windowsill to the nursery to take lots of cuttings and had to replace it. I chose this little cactus.

This window overlooks the backyard that yesterday I cropped out of the seedling picture I posted. You also can’t see the backyard mess here either. I’m tricky that way.

The photo was too backlit to be useful so I used an Instagram for Android filter or two to make it more mysterious.

I see the succulent planters are growing nicely at the mall in Emeryville. And what do we have here?

Why it’s an Agave beginning the bloom cycle. Too bad, very sad. Probably Agave vilmoriana, or hybrid thereof.

Also in bloom in back are all the great looking Euphorbia characias.

And the photo does raise the question, why pay more for 4g. The answer of course is selection. So there.

I think I took this picture on Solano Ave. It looks like a hair salon. I see Aeonium and Sedum. I can’t really tell what’s going on with that pot. Odd thing.

The moon sure looked bigger this morning behind the Yuccas than this photo shows.

I wonder why we see the moon as bigger in person than it clearly is in reality as depicted in this very photo right here?

Nice urban Yuccas, too.

Pardee Street
Aeonium arboreum in a nice metal planter. The vignette blur effect was achieved with my cell phone photo editing software, a free add-on from photoshop so you know it’s good.

Too bad the great early spring is over and some winter weather has come back, though we do need the rain, but fortunately I took this photo last week when the weather we still nice. Nice run-on sentence!

Channing Way, Berkeley
Aloe arborescens.

8th Street

8th Street
Echinopsis pachanoi and Aloe arborescens and Pumpkin Head.

8th Street
Aloe striata in bloom. Looks nice against the rock. Granite!

Agave attenuata, aka the Foxtail Agave.

San Pablo Ave.

I hope you like the “vignette blur” feature I’m now using to make the local Berkeley succulent photos look more interesting. I mean, this wheelbarrow is already very interesting, for sure, you know, and all, but maybe a little more interesting with the weird blur effect that makes it look like a toy?

Curtis Street

A galvanized tub along the sidewalk with Aeoniums. Very green.