BuddyGarden Blog found some nice sedums and put them in a great little trough. They look good. Go check it out.

Jared and Amy of Life at Home visit the cactus and succulents at the Seattle Conservatory and quality photos ensue. Very nice, well worth the visit.

Dustpan Alley has a picture of an upside down baby mannequin head with a Crassula ovata growing out of it. Angelina thinks succulents have secret lives. I suppose the pictures help to reveal them.

Victoria Daily Photo has 2 great closeups of a mystery iceplant. Maybe a Delosperma. But it could be many others. Still, such lovely photos.

A Trip Down Succulent Lane got a beautiful Euphorbia lactea ghost crest graft as a gift. Photo ensued. What’s not to like?

Saipua has been mixing plants for clients. Here’s a picture of a peony and a Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi and some other stuff too. A very particular style results.

Gardening in Central Florida shows what can happen to a cactus, even in central Florida: It Blooms! This is some type of Echinopsis. Hard to see the plant behind the flower to know for sure. But it’s sure pretty.

Danielle’s little nopal grew an arm, as documented on Danielle’s Garden Blog. It’s very precious, so be careful not to disturb it, or the whole thing may break off and then where would we be?

Moonjazz took a very popular photo of a cactus bloom. Everyone on flickr seems to like it, so you may too, not that I’m making any assumptions about you and your aesthetic tastes. After all, you’re on this blog and I have my own aesthetic, which is different from moonjazz’s, so you may not like it like everyone else on flickr likes it. OK?

The Casual Perfectionist has a scraggly cholla, as they all are, but it has pretty flowers.

Those fine folks at Apartment Therapy show us 10 lovely photos of their 10 favorite succulents. It’s all good.

Shaunie’s Happy Place has a very nice little strawberry pot filled to the brim with Sempervivums. I’m sufre they’re delicious.

Somebody does something unfortunate to some cactus or other. It looks like a Japanese game show. I don’t know what to add. In fact, I’ll just say that you shouldn’t click the link because that would be encouraging bad behavior.

Sheila at the Gardens of Petersonville, oddly not in Petersonville but in Laguna Beach, has replaced her annuals overlooking a waterfall with low maintenance succulents. Photographic proof is provided.

Tracey, of Life in Sugar Hollow, had a tough choice deciding what to give as party favors. Succulents won out, and they are a very attractive bunch of Sempervivums, as it were, judging by the photo.

The Lawrence World Journal has reader blogs, and one reader found a blooming Epiphyllum in Lawrence, Kansas with a cell phone photo to prove it. This is a very exciting find, I would think. But then it’s Saturday, so what do you expect?

Today’s link is to 2Modern Design Talk as they wander Austin looking for Modern design. And they found some. Not a lot, mind you, but just enough that featured some sassy succulents that they got a blog post out of it, and I got one too.

Don’t live in the hill country? Try cacti, agave plants and succulents. There’s hardly a yard or kitchen table around this city without a cactus.

My sister lives in Austin and she doesn’t have any cacti. I might suggest that means she doesn’t have a modern house, but they’re rebuilding the small bungalow and I’m the designer, so it must be modern. And yet, still no cacti. I’ll have to speak to her about that.

This is kind of a strange post by DigaPixBlog, of an Opuntia bloom. The writer is a cactus hobbyist and photographer, but the photo is by someone else, unnamed and unlinked-to, while the shot is criticized, even cropped to change the effect. I don’t agree with the suggested cropping anyway. But the original uncredited photo is quite lovely, with a bee diving in to the bloom.

Nicole at Pentimento noticed an anacampseros blooming a couple weeks ago when we had the really hot weather. It’s a very nice, vibrant pink color, if you check out her picture. We’ve also noticed that the anacampseroses only bloom in the 90s or above.

Liv Moe has an interesting way to display cactus and succulents, as displayed at an art show. Let’s see, there’s the old man cactus in the old man planter. The living stones in the toilet. Well, I suppose you could do worse.

Susan at Garden Rant went to a co-housing Green Roof in Maryland, and has pictures to prove it. Look at all the pretty colors. The balconies had hanging baskets too.

Travel Snippets went to the Galapagos Islands and took some decent shots of some cactus in the dry season. There’s a nice shot of a tree prickly pear at the coast in silhouette.

Patch of Earth found a wagon on Craigslist and filled it with cactus and succulents. Photos ensued.

I see a peperomia, an echeveria, an epiphyllum, aporocatus, and so much more.

Making SundaySauce’s Andrew Scrivani went searching for a cactus pad in New York. Hah! We get them at our local grocer here in Berkeley, but apparently it wasn’t so easy in a giant east coast metropolitan area.

I visited Mexican groceries in my neighborhood and only found the jarred version of the plant….

I… called a Mexican restaurant in the W. Village that serves Nopal… they had a private supplier…. He never called.

And then he gets an offer of 40 lbs from Phoenix. Oy, that’s a lot of pads.

A very entertaining story, indeed. You can also see one of Andrew’s photos I posted (borrowed…) this week. If I’m understanding this he not only photographs the food, he also cooks it. Now that’s what I call a good gig.

Larry Wilson with the Pasadena Star-News put some Opuntia violacea into a galvanized trough for the LA Garden Show. That seems to be the theme of his blog entry at the paper’s blog, Public Eye.

The photoblogosphere has many photos. Blogs, streams, galleries, everyone’s taking pictures. So to help you indentify worthy photos to take the time to view, I’m starting a new link of the day feature focusing on Photoblogging.

Captain Suresh has a very nice flickr stream of cactus bloom photos. Some insects buzzing around the flowers too. I especially like the Ferocactus blooms.

A few weeks ago Vanillalotus went to the San Antonio Garden Center Sale and got her first succulents, including a nice juicy little Aeonium “kiwi”. Many have stopped by to offer her encouragement in her new venture into succulent-land.

Slice of the Day has a great photo of a Puya in bloom. Turquoise is the word of the day.