An Alameda Garden kicks off their new Succulent Sundays with a picture of Aeoniums and Agaves on Alcatraz.

Mr. Subjunctive has a blooming Stapelia gigantea. They stink.

Idora Design is featuring a pink echeveria hybrid in the garden. Any ideas what c.v. it may be?

Lara, at enidlifestyle.com has been collecting vintage pots to fill with succulents. See the results, on enidlifestyle.com. There’s some really nice vintage glazes.

I’m not so sure about the owl, though.

You know I am often amazed what one can find on the web. Here we have a balloon cactus.

Now what does this mean? I mean, you know, like, 500 years ago someone in Rome first got a sample of a cactus from an explorer who had recently returned from the Americas. Maybe from Columbus himself. And now look what happens; google, twitter, and balloon cactuses. Oh my.

Mr. Subjunctive links to a site with some startlingly close-up photos of cactus.

Did I mention the startle factor?

It’s called A Closeup Look at Some Members of the Cactus Family, or some such thing. And it’s by a Canadian who goes by Brian Johnston, according to the site. Did I mention how cool it is?

Jenny at J Peterson Blog has a tree trunk photo. Oh, and it’s covered in caterpillars. Oh Nos! I’ll bet they’ve already stripped those leaves bare.

I see that Mr. Subjunctive is planning for the zombie apocalypse by buying plants. An excellent strategy, indeed!

He has a number of excellent succulent choices, including the ever fascinating Pedilanthus, and some other houseplant thingys too. I think he should also add astelia to his list. And you? What are you doing to prepare for the zombies?

Debra Lee Baldwin’s Agave potatorum is starting to bloom, as told on Gardening Gone Wild.

She wonders what to do with all the plantlets that will result. Any ideas of how she can share them, maybe while on her book tour?

My twitter friend @kotemaro grows succulents in Hokkaido, and has some new seedlings growing on his website. No english, but lots of succulent pictures.

This is the caption below the photo of the seedlings:

花物メセンの実生
ちょっとー何これ♪　可愛いんですけどー！

So go check out the picture, and see if you can figure out what it is. Then come back here and let me know what you’ve come up with.

Matti from Far Out Flora has very crisp photos of some 1 year old seedlings in a bull pot.

Idora design had trouble picking paint colors, so they hired a colorist. They should have hired me! I do color selection, too you know. What, you don’t know?

Despite the fact that I attended fancy-pants art school, we ended up having to get a colorist to help us pick paint for our house. It’s embarrassing, but it really worked out. If anyone has a purpose for quarts of some wierd colors I bought pre-colorist, I’m your girl!

They also linked to us at the cactusblog in this post, so a link back seemed like the least I could do.

From using twitter recently, I’ve been discovering all kinds of new garden blogs. In fact, I may have already linked to some of these, but anyway here are a few to check out.

Donegan Landscaping in Dublin (Ireland).

Our Little Acre is somewhere in rural Ohio, but that’s a good thing.

J Peterson Garden Design is one of many garden bloggers in Austin, in the heart of Texas.

Finally! A San Francisco blogger! My Back 40 (Feet).

Far Out Flora has some very clear photos of tillandsias, even in bloom, and even quite beautiful. So many epiphytic bromeliads, so little time.

Snappy’s Garden Blog from Wakefield : Yorkshire : United Kingdom has an Echeveria imbricata that has survived the Yorkshire winter! Yay!

And there were some cormarants, spring bulbs, a sister’s birthday and a landlord threat. That’s a full blog post.

Fern at Life on the Balcony took a lot of photos of succulents at the Huntington Gardens near Pasadena.

It’s always a joy to walk the grounds of the Huntington, home of some of the largest succulent specimens seen in captivity, and Life on the Balcony does a good job of capturing that.

Nice Fockea.

Bay Area Tendrils has an old post up with lots of edible-style green roofs to visit.

I see succulents in there too, sedums amongst them. And summertime sunshine.

i am dianthus has an amazing photo of a Pachyphytum oviferum, also known as Moonglow.

Danger Garden visited The streets of Fillmore, California and found a lot of agaves. Some other plants too, but mostly agaves. I see A. americana, A. neomexicana, A. lophantha, A. marginata, A. attenuata, A. parryi and yuccas too, I almost forgot the yuccas.

A Growing Delight in Canberra has regular visit from their local magpies, and the hoyas are about to bloom! Photos of the birds and the flower buds are included.

chuck b. of My Back 40(Feet) has some big and juicy rock photos of Tahquitz Canyon outside Palm Springs. I highly recommend the photo with the little tufts of grasses poking through.

Cactus Blindness. Can you help?

Affordable Accoutrements has a cactus on the table.

A very scenic photo ensues. (“Scenic” in the old-english-countryside-with-follies sense of the word.)

From Amy Stewart at Garden Rant:

…You’ll walk into the garden center and walk around for a little while, lost and confused, until some helpful employee walks up and asked you what you’re looking for. You won’t want to ask, because it sounds so weird, but eventually you’ll have no choice but to say, “Uh—do you have—uh—any clay spheres?”

The employee will light up and say, “Of course. They’re over here.” He or she will lead you to the section in the garden center where they keep flowerpots. There, among the pots, will be these things. Clay spheres. There’s really no other way to describe them….

Actually, I like to refer to them as “clay balls” to our customers. We have them scattered around the nursery so you can see them in action. They are an oddity that some people just have to have. What are ya gonna do?

The small ones are solid, but the large ones are hollow! The glazed balls have a bottom, with a large hole.

Mulch Maven, from J Peterson Garden Design in Austin, TX, uploaded a succulent centerpiece, with bright red candle, on twitpic.

Let’s see what we can identify in the photo. I see: Kalanchoe blossfeldiana, Sedum spurium, Crassula nudicaulis, Echeveria imbricata, Sedum “Blue Spruce”, Sempervivum arachnoides, a Mammillaria, and some others too!

Christine from Idora Design (California Native plant designs…) came by the nursery today and brought me Cactus Pastilles! I am so excited. Unfortunately, I was not around at the time, but I have now tasted them, and they are a bit licoricey, which is good because I like licorice.

Yay!

Idora Design Blog is featuring Arctostaphyloses today. We like manzanitas.

Water When Dry had a fox visit her agave yesterday; photos ensued.

Such a big fluffy tail, indeed.

Infrared Cactus photo.