and Ross Valley Nursery
Pretty flowers are on the way, soon enough with this lovely tree Aloe.
Aloe speciosa is also known as the Tilt-head Aloe. It’s from the southern parts of South Africa. It’s generally found in groups, ie Aloe forests. The Red buds will turn pure white when they open. And of course like all aloes the hummingbirds go crazy girl them, checking back every day for more open blooms.
They are a tree Aloe, getting as tall as 20ft. and pretty quick too for a thick trunked succulent.
Ribes sanguineum
Ask.com has this question up:
How Long Can a Cactus Survive Without Water
And then the answer includes this part:
…although (cacti) may show some signs of death when it lacks water, in most cases, it never dies completely…
What a bizarre answer.
Malacothamnus “Casitas” is still in bloom months later. Here was a photo from October.
I can see the bloom cycle is coming to an end and should last maybe a month more.
Whippets in the winter sunshine.
Have you noticed that most of my whippet photos are of whippets lying around? We get some action shots too, but mostly the two whippets are lounging.
Felicia posted the ID question on Yahoo Answers and already has her answer, so you don’t need to click through to help her out and answer.
But can you ID this cactus anyway?
People don’t seem to respect the red.
We have a newly poured concrete driveway and curb, although the strip is still to be planted.
Mystery!
Hello Cactus Blog,
My succulent grew a baby plant. Should I put it in its own pot? Thanks!
Yvonne
Yvonne,
I would definitely cut it off and put it in a new pot – BUT – wait for spring. It will be fine for a few more months as it is. When you do take the cutting, I recommend letting the cut end dry for a week before planting it in fresh dry cactus soil.
Also, not that you asked, but it looks like your Echeveria could use a bit more light. These are full sun Echeverias and would do best with 3-4 hours min. direct sun, without a screen.
Peter
Cynthia sends along this photo of a succulent wall panel she created. Over time, she says, the black aeoniums grew too big and the form of the picture got lost. She calls it “whoshecu”.
Nice work, if a bit graphic. Although not too graphic for this blog!
Maybe I should have prefaced this with a NSFW.
Aloe africana
Aloe plicatilis
Aloe variegata
And in bloom, Aloe “Yellow Torch”
Yan rooted some Edithcolea grandis cuttings, and he sent us pictures!
Success!
I have finally gotten it all together and we now have a page for Airplants for the Bay Area.
Airplant Terrarium
It’s not a very complete page yet since I have lots of photos to take. It could take awhile to get the rest of the tillandsias photographed.
Tillandsia utriculata v. “Prengelii”
Sedeveria “Blue” may be S. “Blue Mist” or S. “Blue Giant” but I don’t know for sure, so we have named it S. “Blue” to cover all our bases. And pretty bases they are!
Why is it that Dragons like to hang out among the succulents so much? It’s a mystery.
Thanks Cheri for the heads-up to this craigslist listing in Berkeley. They’re local! And awesome!
I still go into San Francisco to see my dentist and what do I see but new Succulent bowls, mostly Echeveria, at the Embarcadero Center. They look very freshly planted, so we’ll see how well they’ve done next time I visit – in 6 months of course.
Nice succulents. I see Echeveria and Echeveria and more Echeveria. Maybe a Pachyveria too.
A healthy Christmas Cactus bloom color.
Carole made us this amazing needlepoint cactus.
It’s a very fruitful prickly pear. Thanks Carole!
This is our most popular whippet video – almost 20,000 hits!
Yesterday’s stormy rain left us with moist succulents.
Kalanchoe
Crassula
Senecio
Yesterdays stormy rain is over and today it is gorgeous and sunny.
We were very busy yesterday, and now what can we expect for today? – the last day we are open for the year.
In case you were wondering, we do have a few more wooden succulent wall panels available for sale on this last day to buy your loved ones a beautiful and delicious Christmas present. (Open ’til 5:oo).
It may be a very rainy day today, but we’re here for you. Today and tomorrow we are staying open all the way to 5pm. Because we care.
Only three more days to go.
Here’s the Christmas Cactus last week.
Apparently the town next to Berkeley, Emeryville, is no longer part of California.
Hah, I’m just joking.
Here we see someone at the local mall who thinks that California native plants include spurges. They don’t!
And here we see that the entire garden is filled with non-natives – not a native to be seen. Shall we list them out?
Euphorbia from Europe, Senecio from South Africa, Chondropetalum from South Africa, Aeoniums from the Canary Islands, Sedums from Asia.
Actually, it’s a pretty nice drought-tolerant Mediterranean style garden, so I shouldn’t complain that they put out one or two silly native signs.
Wow! That was a heck of a lot of filtering software to get the image to look that stupid.
Here’s the original photo. (more…)
