Look what Rikki has wrought. Matte glazed cube pots with drainage holes! Mixed pots, here we come. Just in time for Christmas.

Nicole has been busy making succulent terrariums for the holidays.

Every single one gets a mini animal as well as a succulent.

Nice! Anne says the chicken is  a snow chicken. I doubt it. It looks like a Rhode Island Red to me.

I hope you’ve been able to cover your frost sensitive plants. Two more nights of freezing temps…

Our biggest specimen cactus at the nursery has been sold. Off to Mill Valley!

Echinocactus grusonii multi-barrel was over 60 years old. We rescued it from a heritage garden in San Jose that was going to be bulldozed and we’ve been growing it for 7 years.

Old!

I love our cast iron dragon bell! But we’ve only sold one of them all year! I wonder why?

Anne came in costume to work today, as Poison Ivy.

Awesome!

She’s the only one. We’re so lame.

It’s a beautiful sunny day at Cactus Jungle. A bit chilly this morning, but it should warm up.

This is a full size picture of Cactus Jungle so you can click and zoom and see all of our detail exposed!

Cactus and Succulents!

Yuccas and Pachycereus! (and an aloe too)

I’ve gone ahead and revamped our Cactus Jungle website. Phew!

We have over 1400 plant pages and over 4000 images, so they haven’t all been updated yet, but the rest of the site is fully new and revised and the plant pages will follow behind over the next few weeks. 1400 is a lot of pages to update!

Here are some photos of the nursery back in 2006. We were a lot smaller back then.

You can see we had space on the retail floor for troughs of cactus that were growing. Those have all been moved offsite now to make room for more plants to sell. Some people miss the display gardens, but what are you going to do.

Our first Rare Plant/Houseplant Greenhouse was pretty lightweight. In fact it fell over the first winter that we had a heavy wind.

I miss the Little Red Wagon.

Using our newest double-bowl glass for a succulent terrarium?

Crazy!

It’s a giant Stapelia bloom and it’s about to open! The stinky carrion flower might make the Rare Plant Room uninhabitable as soon as tomorrow! Yay!

Haha! Just kidding! It already opened over the weekend and the smell has already started to dissipate by now. Phew! Unfortunately it was purchased right after I took this almost-open photo and never got another picture of it fully open. On the plus side, it didn’t stink up the rare plant room.

Nicole has completed a series of new terrariums using Chive Terrarium Glass and a bunch of small succulents, with adorable colored sand for all!

I see the succulent wreaths have been stuck and are rooting nicely! Did you pre-order? Maybe you can select yours from the photo. Hahaha! Coming soon… (November 1)

Succulent Wreaths are Now Available!

I don’t really understand what this is about.

This is a picture on the home page of Buchanan Nurseries in Houston, Texas, and maybe they sell these, maybe not, it doesn’t say. I hope they sell them. Awesome! for the Win!

Joe’s latest creation, in a locally made Urban Farmgirls hypertufa pot, is a mixed succulent trough.

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Did you know that Google stopped by and photographed the inside of the nursery and you can see the result of that here on Google See Inside?

Nice!

Now it is true that this happened 3 years ago so the nursery looks very different now. In a good way! But still, you get a pretty good idea from the googles.

Now we have a question about a plant someone saw on our google page.

Hi cactus jungle!

I was being a creep and looking at the google maps street view of your store when I saw a plant I fell in love with immediately! It’s the one to the right of the bamboo in that picture, to the left of the white arrow. Looks like a little tree with bright green neon leaves. What is that thing and how can I get one I must have it!

Anyway, thanks for having such a great blog I love it!

– Mary

Mary,

That is a Manzanita (Arctostaphylos). We do have lots in stock. That one was potted into a terra cotta pot and trimmed up to look like a bonsai. I’m not sure exactly which species since the photos for Google’s See Inside were taken over 3 years ago.

Peter

That’s a lot of spiny cactus. Can you name them all?

That’s a lot harder than column cacti below since there are hybrids and cultivars in the bunch here, whereas the column cacti were all species.

Still, you can zoom in pretty close to check it out in all its Hi-Def beauty and glory.

Ever wonder what a column cactus would look like if you had a whole lot of them in one place at the same time? Here, take a look. That’s a lot of column cacti at the Cactus Jungle now.

Who can name them all? And not you Keith, employees who could go look a the tags are not included.

If you’re not sure of them all then click the photo to embiggen. It will get really embiggened, so you can check the finer points of the aureoles and such.

Line the seedlings up in a tray. Give them lots of sun, maybe some late afternoon shade. Water occasionally.

Enjoy!

Pachycereus marginatus, Organ Pipe Cactus

Cleistocactus hyalacanthus

Oooohh, photogenic!

Our latest soil in our Ultra Soil collection is also Anne’s first new product. It’s our Carnivorous Plant Blend. You know you want some. We’ll even ship it if you ask.

Thanks, Anne!

SUCCULENT WREATHS!

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So exciting! Here on the CactusBlog I have some cactus photos for you.

Tunilla soehrensii

Echinopsis chamaecereus is the famed Peanut Cactus

Polaskia chichipe is not Polish.

Our latest Safari Minis are in, and they’re…. Farm Animals! Let’s see what we have here today.

Pig. With Oxalis “Coppertones”.

Chicken. With Aeonium lindleyi.

And the best of all is the Sheep. With Sempervivum, Crassula and Sedum.

Joe’s latest custom mixed succulent pot for a customer who likes yellow.

Nice!

Follow me after the break for a picture of Joe ringing up the mixed pot at the register.
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Bonfire as it got colder last night at the company summer party. If only summers in Berkeley were warm we wouldn’t have needed a bonfire. On the other hand, if summers in Berkeley were warmer we wouldn’t have had a bonfire.

Everyone agrees this is not my “best” one. I think they don’t like it. But it’s my crappy terrarium. Look at all those colors! Gold sand, orange beads, orange butterfly! It’s like a fantasia from the 70s and I was there so I should know. Next time I’m using purples.