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Succulents

Posted January 24, 2018 6:41 pm & filed under Succulents.

At the Cactus Jungle Nursery and Garden, Berkeley

Aloe, San Francisco

Posted January 23, 2018 2:53 pm & filed under San Francisco.

Aloe arborescens

Carl Street, San Francisco

Cactus Jungle, Marin

Posted January 9, 2018 8:56 am & filed under Cactus Jungle, Marin.

Bringing over the cactus for the new San Anselmo store!

Cactus Jungle, Marin, opening mid – February.

Succulent Roof

Posted January 7, 2018 1:16 pm & filed under Berkeley Succulents, Reader Photos.

Hi there, just want to share a sight from a walk yesterday. This is one of those free little libraries, but with an awesome roof composed entirely of succulents, on both sides. It’s off Colusa in North Berkeley.

Pretty neat, eh?

Doris

Cactus Jungle Opening Nursery in Marin

Posted January 6, 2018 7:09 am & filed under Cactus Jungle, Marin.

Cactus Jungle comes to San Anselmo
Cactus Jungle, based in Berkeley, is branching out with a store on the former Sunnyside Nursery site in San Anselmo.

By PJ Bremier, Marin Independent Journal

In San Anselmo, it’s a new nursery for the New Year. That’s the good news for Ross Valley gardeners as Cactus Jungle is moving into the vacant former Sunnyside Nursery location in San Anselmo.

Sunnyside, which operated from 1940 to 2015, was a local favorite known for its good selection of plants, helpful staff with deep knowledge of plants and its own Marin growing grounds. Then Armstrong Garden Centers opened there, but closed this summer.

That makes Cactus Jungle, based in Berkeley, only the third nursery there in more than 75 years…

Click through to read the rest. Find out when we’re opening! Find out what we’re planning!

Reader Photos

Posted January 4, 2018 3:55 pm & filed under Reader Photos.

Hi,
I bought a 5 gallon of this beauty (Leucadendron “Wilson’s Wonder”) and this is it 3 years later. It’s gorgeous!

Hortensia

Nice!

Whippet on Break

Posted December 28, 2017 12:16 pm & filed under Whippets.

While the store is closed for winter break (we reopen Jan 2!) the Jason had the week off.

Holidays at the Cactus Jungle

Posted December 22, 2017 10:07 am & filed under Cactus Jungle.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Cactus Jungle is OPEN til 6:00pm Friday, Saturday, AND Sunday! (Dec 22-24)

Christmas eve, too? Yes!

The Future is Cactus

Posted December 19, 2017 11:41 am & filed under Cactus, Environment, News, Recipes.

According to Earther.com:

We’ll All Be Eating Cactus in the Future Thanks to Climate Change
by Katie Valentine

…the prickly pear cactus, a humble plant that, according to a new book co-published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, can serve as a lifesaving crop for many countries…

“It’s actually a fairly amazing crop that can grow in most dry areas of the world,” Makiko Taguchi, a cactus expert at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, told Earther. “And the dry areas of the world are expanding in some places.”

Oh, and it’s delicious!

Prickly Pear Margarita

Ingredients

coarse salt as needed
2 fluid ounces tequila
2 fluid ounces sweet and sour mix

1 fluid ounce triple sec
1 fluid ounce lime juice
1 fluid ounce prickly pear syrup

Click thru to see the rest of the instructions.

We Get Sick Cactus Questions

Posted December 15, 2017 9:54 am & filed under Questions.

hey there…. i was wonder if you could help me with my cactus…. we had mealie mites and i used a insecticidal soap. then this started to happened and fast. could it be corking? i don’t think its root rot. i dealt with that before. is there something we can do to save it?

Could we cut the bad out of the cactus and callus it and replant? the tops don’t seam to be infected..

thank you for any help you can provide!!!
Gene

It looks to me like you have 2 plants with the same problem. After the infestation, which the soap didn’t fix, the plants would have been susceptible to infection.

I would recommend getting the 3 of them out of that soil, and repotting the 1 healthy one on its own. You can take tip cuttings of the other 2 if you can cut above the infection. When you cut, if the flesh is clean and white then you can let it callous over for a week before planting. Since it’s winter I recommend Sulfur Dust on the cut end to help prevent fungus. If the cut end is not clean then keep cutting upward til you get to clean flesh, or if the infection is all the way through the plant then it is not saveable.

Peter

Cactus Cupcakes

Posted December 14, 2017 6:48 pm & filed under Travel.

Are you wondering why no nobody in New York has offered a holiday cupcake party with a cactus and succulent theme? Cupcake Decorating Workshop by The Sill has you covered, if you are available and in New York next Tuesday only. Nice!

I wonder if they teach you how to make delicious cupcakes, or just how to decorate any old cupcake.

You will learn how to decorate cupcakes like a pro.

OK! No good cupcakes, only decorative frostings. I mean, I assume they don’t prevent you from using delicious cupcakes, but it’s hard to say for sure.

And what if you’re a beginner….

This class will be good for beginners who want to explore their interest, and for semi-professionals who want to develop new skills in buttercream design.

Berkeley Succulents in Full Bloom

Posted December 9, 2017 9:49 am & filed under Berkeley Succulents.

Aloe arborescens in full bloom

7th St., Berkeley

Oh, those winter blooming South African Aloes! They do come and bloom at an auspicious time of the year.

Christmas Tree Cactus

Posted December 5, 2017 6:08 pm & filed under Cactus.

Austrocylindropuntia subulata fa. monstrose is the Christmas Tree Cactus.

Big Blue Succulent Leaves

Posted November 25, 2017 11:02 am & filed under Bay Area Gardens, Berkeley Succulents.

That’s an Echeveria “Blue Dude” right there! It’s an older style hybrid, so you know it’s back in fashion now. Hurry before it cycles back out.

Succulent Wreaths

Posted November 24, 2017 8:31 am & filed under Cactus Jungle, Succulent Wreaths, Succulents.

Succulent Wreaths, now at your local friendly Cactus Jungle, Berkeley

Video Streaming of the Cactus Jungle

Posted November 22, 2017 4:06 pm & filed under Blogs.

Live Stream!

Save the link here.

Tiny Flowers

Posted November 18, 2017 10:01 am & filed under Photography.

Those are some very small, tiny, Crassula perforata flowers. So small that in person they just look like dead flowers. But no, up close they are alive. ALIVE!

Road Kill Cactus

Posted November 17, 2017 10:40 am & filed under Cactus.

Consolea rubescens is the flat cactus known as the Road Kill Cactus
…
Because it’s flat!
😍 👏 🐝 🦋

Interesting Framing

Posted November 14, 2017 10:35 am & filed under Photography, Succulents.

Aloe ferox at the Cactus Jungle on a sunny day.

It’s all good.

Common Name: Cape Aloe

Single large toothy rosette on tall stalk, outdoor up to 8ft.

Hardy to 20-25F

Full Sun to Part Sun

Black Rose

Posted November 12, 2017 11:51 am & filed under Cactus Jungle, Succulents.

Aeonium “Schwartzkopf” is a classic, selling well at the nursery every year, forever. It is beautiful, it is tall and lanky, it is a large rosette this time of year as winter moves in. Nice!

Saturday Morning Succulents

Posted November 11, 2017 9:27 am & filed under Photography, Succulents.

What’s the best succulent for a Saturday morning? Some might say a Euphorbia anoplia is appropriate for a Saturday morning.

Friday Whippet Blogging

Posted November 9, 2017 8:55 pm & filed under Whippets.

It’s Jason!

Small Succulent

Posted November 7, 2017 8:35 am & filed under Plants in Production.

Crassula “Chiquito”

Common Name: Dwarf Red Carpet

Origin: South Africa

Description:
C. radicans “Chiquito”

Spreading groundcover to 6″ high, small ½” paired leaves turn red in sun; tiny yellow flowers

Cardon

Posted November 4, 2017 12:21 pm & filed under Cactus.

Pachycereus pringlei

Common Name: Cardón

Origin: Baja California

Description: Tall and spiny to 40ft. with 2ft. trunk, slow growing. Edible fruit, medicinal stems.

Temperature: Hardy to 25F

Los Altos Euphorbias

Posted October 20, 2017 7:33 am & filed under Bay Area Gardens, Reader Photos.

We recently delivered a giant 9ft tall Euphorbia “Ammak” down all the way to Los Altos. At least we thought it was giant. It sure looked giant in our store greenhouse!

But as you can see it is the small Euphorbia there! They’ve been growing them for many years and the new one looks tiny! Nice.

Thank you for our new 9ft Euphorbia Ammak. She is settling in nicely next to her larger family members!

Best,
Lorilynn

Gorgeous Tiny Stapeliad Flowers

Posted October 18, 2017 9:06 am & filed under Photography.

Cynanchum marnierianum

Amazing little flower, but look there’s 8 more buds too!

The plant itself is all hanging bare stems. Practically a “stick plant” I’d you ask me.

Prickly Pear Pests

Posted October 16, 2017 10:16 am & filed under Questions.

Hi-

I got this guy from you a couple months ago. I’m worried it has developed a fungus. What do you think those dots are?

Thanks!
Stephanie

Stephanie,

That is Scale, a small hard-shelled insect that sucks the juices out of cactus. We recommend spraying with natural pyrethrins. We sell Don’t Bug Me which will kill them on contact. They have a hard outer shell so you can clean them off with a spray of rubbing alcohol which will break down the shell, and then use a soft brush to wipe them off. Be careful not to scrape the cactus.

Peter