Nursery and Gift
Garden Rant is pimping out easy to assemble raised beds. They’re giving them away now too! If someone wants to send me a free easy to assemble raised bed, I’ll pimp ’em out too.
And they have a post about searching for plants online, featuring Loree’s [added: And Megan Hansen. and Patricia Cunningham, see comment below] newest tool, Plant Lust. I didn’t know! Now I do.
We were forecast for hail this weekend, but it held off in the Berkeley area. Apparently they got quite a bit in Davis, as reported by Gerhard of Bamboo and More. Click through to see the Hail! and the damage to Gerhard’s succulents.
We covered all the soft succulents at the nursery Saturday night, so we were prepared. Now, we had a whole bunch of hail storms this winter that we weren’t prepared for, so we were lucky this time.
Welcome Lithops Stories to the Blogroll. These are some tricky little plants to grow and you can follow along with Rika in Germany.
Posts to start with? How about:
While Oregon Cactus Blog has gone shopping, they’ve left behind some Euphorbias to enjoy. It’s been 10 days now, do you think they’re back yet?
Click through for all the pretty photos on Flickr.
That was it for flickr today, nothing else new there. I wish people would upload more photos.
Besides the link to the bees and beetles below, that is.
A really nice blooming Pediocactus simpsonii photo taken in Colorado, as found on flickr. Candy colored flowers. Did I mention the colors look like they could be made into spun sugar ribbon candy?
Good to Grow asked their experts about taxes and plants, and Expert Ed had an interesting answer.
Q. If plants were considered “people” like corporations are considered to be “people,” which plant or tree do you think would find the most tax loopholes to pay the least amount of taxes?
A. It’s hard to squeeze anything out of a cactus.
Did you get your taxes in on time? Or did you have your cacti handle it all for you?
The first of the Garden Show reviews.
Googly-eyed Cactus by Sproutopia at the SF Garden Show, via Far Out Flora with Sproutopia’s Dinosaurs via Garden Wise Guy.
Focusing on the structures from Garden Porn, including the succulent wall panel shed.
I’ll update as more blogs post their reviews, so let me know as they appear.
From a magazine apparently called Candy and Cactus, there’s a store in Toronto that sells plants and toiletries interspersed in the aisles.
Here’s some Haworthia and an ice cream case:
An orchid among the shaving creams:
Photo credits: Mikaël Lavogiez
What is up with a magazine called Candy and Cactus anyway?
Hort Log has some very nice Hoya bloom photos, and even goes to the trouble to explain the differences between a couple of types of Hoyas that are commonly confused.
Old Brand New likes to put cactus and succulents into dinnerware, especially if they have handles. It makes it easier to water the plants. I hope Old Brand New isn’t over-watering the plants since the dinnerware doesn’t look like it has drain holes in the bottom.
The ballad of The Sad Cactus.
It’s funny ’cause it’s true. Via The Rumpus.
It’s that exciting time of year when I update the blog roll! Yay! I added some garden blogs, some gardens, and I also cleared out some dead links. So go ahead and click on the links to your right with abandon!
I’ll also link to some of their posts as we go in the weeks ahead.
And if I missed any blogs I should be linking to, including yours, let me know in comments, please, OK?
One of the Garden Rant writers is spying on her hyacinths. Why would she do that? I’d want to put the spycam on something you were less sure would actually bloom, just to see if they were blooming in the middle of the night when you weren’t looking. Any suggestions?
San Francisco’s Paxton Gate Nursery has a Portland branch office, now, so it seems. This comes to us via words and pictures and links from Danger Garden who happens to be in Portland, so they are probably a reliable source for this.
Check out the fully dormant and named Desert Roses they have. I thought we were the only ones to put out leafless succulents.
Anyone want to help Mr. Subjunctive ID his cacti on Plants are the Strangest People? Click over and have a go at it!
…At Plants are the Strangest People.
Mr. Subjunctive has gone overboard this time, with the little paper party hats… on the cacti….
Even the Leuchtenbergia!
It snowed in Albuquerque, according to Good To Grow. Liza included photographic evidence of the snow on an Opuntia and it is pretty good evidence, indeed.
Plants are the Strangest People has been cross pollinating various cross-pollinated plants. Photos are pre-cross-pollination.
Piecemeal Quilts has a christmas-cactus-quilt, piecemeal style.
Indiana Public Media can’t splurge for a photo of a christmas cactus that is in focus. It is red, though.
Lucky Dog’s 2-year-old pink christmas cactus has gone bonkers with blooms this year.
Photographic evidence from KB Design that there are mature succulents throughout the Big Sur area.
Garden Adventures has a photo of the inner working parts of a Cereus peruvianus flower. Hard to tell what it comes from in the photo, so we’ll just have to trust the ID.
365 Days has finally found succulents, and it only took 11 months of the year. At least the clump of Echeveria is in full bloom.
Did you know that Echeveria elegans is from Mexico? All Echeverias are from Mexico, or maybe a little further south.
Bettyl at Soaring through the World in Pictures has a very vibrant pink Oreocereus flower photo.
Danger Garden has spotted a carwash with some tortured shrubbery in the shape of Saguaros, also known as “Arborvitae Saguaro” – quite the fancy name for such as that. Impressive!
Boooooom‘s friends named his cactus “Pinchy”.
I thought you would like to know that.
Pam’s Digging has discovered a fantastic truck/cactus combo in Austin. You have to click through. I’ll be on the lookout now for my own truck to plant up.
All Andrew’s Plants has some Echeveria and Aloe blooms that are full and colorful and were almost ready to open this past weekend. Maybe they’re already open!
Sprout Home Chicago puts them in dancing pots.
I assume that refers to the rounded bottoms. I wonder how well they drain?
More photos at Sprout Home.
Frederik from Ystad, Sweden has a lovely Aloe photo for you to go visit. Maybe someone can help him out with a species name?
