Foxtail Agave

A well-maintained front yard with large green Foxtail Agave plants, small yellow flowers, and various succulents alongside a white house with a porch next to a paved sidewalk on a sunny day.

Agave attenuata
Virginia Street, Berkeley

These seem to have come through our rough winter pretty nicely! Possibly because they’re up aginst a house, in a somewhat protected spot, under an eave. Good job!

Artichoke as Metaphor

A green cactus with prominent spines and ridges, resembling an artichoke, sits in a small red plastic pot against a solid black background. Its dried, brown, shriveled top serves as a metaphor for resilience in harsh conditions.

Obregonia denegrii looks enough like an artichoke that some people call it the Artichoke Cactus, not to be confused with Agave parryi truncata which is known as the Artichoke Agave. Maybe instead of comparing unrelated plants to artichokes, we should call the delicious and valuable artichoke the Pulque Vegetable.

Red Echeveria

A close-up of a potted Red Echeveria succulent with broad, flat, reddish-brown leaves set against a black background.

Echeveria “Red Baron” was only available at our Marin store. But now it’s in Berkeley too!

Buy now for local delivery? Yes!

https://cactusjungle.com/product/4-inch-echeveria-red-baron/

Cape Aloe

A large succulent plant with thick, pointed, pale green and pink leaves and tall spikes of bright orange-red tubular flowers, surrounded by potted trees and plants in a garden setting.

Aloe ferox starting to bloom!

Origin: South Africa

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

Temperature: Hardy to 20-25F

Full Sun to Part Sun

Street Aloe, Berkeley

A large aloe plant with spiky green leaves and tall orange flower spikes grows next to a beige wooden building on a sunny day. A blue door and sidewalk are visible beside the plant.

Aloe arborescens on 5th st in Berkeley has a nice big winter bloom stalk going for it.

Sunny Day Succulents

Large variegated succulent with green and yellow leaves in foreground, surrounded by other succulents in pots on metal shelves in a sunlit garden center.

It’s a sunny day so it’s an Aeonium “Sunburst” but unfortunately it’s in the shade. Could I have moved out to the sun for the picture? You would think so…. 🤔 😉

Succulent Roof

A small outdoor wooden library box with a glass door, full of books. Its living roof is topped with green succulents, and a red heart-shaped note is attached to the front. Lush plants and grass surround it.

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

Big Blue Succulent Leaves

Close-up of thick, overlapping, pale blue-grey succulent leaves with smooth surfaces and subtle purple tinges, bathed in natural sunlight.

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.

Berkeley Yucca Garden

A tall yucca plant with white flowers stands among green and red garden foliage in front of a brick building with large windows and an ADURO BIOTECH sign in Berkeley.

Heinz Street, Berkeley

A nicely blooming Yucca in the Aquatic Park Gardens with a beautiful red Leucadendron in front. Sweet!

Echeveria Garden 

A large succulent plant with thick, pointed green leaves and tall stalks topped with clusters of small purple flowers growing in a mulched garden bed beside a street.

That’s a beautiful Echeveria subrigida in full bloom! 

Dowling Pl, Berkeley 

Snowy Pudding 

A close-up of a green succulent plant with thick, rounded leaves arranged in a rosette pattern. The plant is in a pot with other succulents nearby.

This gorgeous Echeveria should be called “Snowy Pudding”

But no. It’s called “White Rose” 

That’s not right. 

😉 

Aeonium in Bloom 

A sunlit front porch with red steps, wooden barrels filled with green plants and yellow flowers, and a white house in the background. Shadows from trees fall across the scene.

Russell St, Berkeley 

Aeonium arboreum cultivar in full bloom with lots of little yellow flowers! 

Blooming Echeveria 

A potted succulent with thick, blue-green leaves arranged in a rosette and a tall stem bearing clusters of small, yellow and pink flowers, set against a black background.

Echeveria glauca is the litte blue succulent with the big orange bloom stalk. 

Berkeley Succulent Garden

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It’s small, it’s between the sidewalk and a brick wall, but it’s all succulent garden.

Grayson St, Berkeley

An Agave Grows in Berkeley

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Agave americana

Alcatraz Ave., near the Berkeley/Oakland border.

Looks like they left just enough space for this monster to grow full size before it impedes on the sidewalk and stabs a young bicyclist riding by.

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