and Ross Valley Nursery
“Cactus & Cowboys: The Art of William Spencer III.” is opening April 2 at the Turquoise Tortoise Gallery in Sedona.
You might think it is a traditional art, with a name like “Cactus and Cowboys” but you’d be wrong. There’s a lot of color in those desert paintings – it’s not muted.
Can be purchased in New Hampshire. Probably Texas, too.
I’ve decided that today is goofy cactus photo day. Come along!
The boy appears to be named Gaston. Probably the french would know what this character is about, and why he has a cactus falling out of his hand.
Wow! And it’s solar, no less.
Well, it’s not really a dancing cactus as the video will show. It’s more of a slow rocking back and forth. Read More…
10. From lels
Hello, Andrey!
Thanks for your game!
I would like to know whether you like cactuses.
Thanks in advance …Andrey Arshavin: They are prickly; I remember we had them in kindergarten. We also had some at home. I didn’t like them then and I don’t like them now.
Why, that no good rotten bastard.
We’ve got a whole bunch of new birdfeeders at the store. I don’t know why – our plants attract enough birds and bees and butterflies and hummingbirds too. But, we’re a nursery, so people expect birdfeeders.
Pictures of an older birdfeeder after the jump…. Read More…
It’s the end of a Bay Area landmark.
In this case, we’re talking about a cactus chandelier. Only on twitpic. By iizLiz
My backyard aloe is in full bloom. Plus, the Bambusa “Alphonse Karr” is filling in nicely.
Aloe plicatilis
Oh my g-d these are cute. I don’t read German, so I don’t know if these are one person’s personal stock of knit cactus, or if they’re for sale somewhere, or even what they’re for.
Wow!
Oy, don’t bother watching this terrible episode from Spike TV.
You can blame Captured! By Robots for sending us this.
An Australian thriller called “Cactus”
@iamdianthus http://twitpic.com/184vqk – @cactusjungle new plants from yesterday!
And if we follow the link, we find out that the new plants include an Echeveria “Metallica” and a Graptoveria “Debbie” (I think).
A customer brought in this lovely stone bowl, and Keith helped her pick out some lovely sempervivums to fill it out.
Bambusa tuldoides grown as a street tree. Good thing its a clumping bamboo, or there could be shoots coming up across the street, in the neighbors yard, etc…
It’s an extra special custom knob from the Bucksnort Lodge. You too can take home a piece of the lodge for your own home. I recommend using these fine antique copper finish knobs on your dresser drawers. That would be best. But not for the bottom smaller drawers you use for socks and underwear; these knobs would overwhelm those two lower drawers.
BuckSnort Lodge B132 Designer Knobs
We feature Lipson Robotics at the nursery, and the newest ones have rayguns! We don’t have any with rayguns. 🙁
I bet they’ll be up on etsy soon.
Yucca valida from my open back door. No way you’re getting me out there. Except to walk the dogs, of course.
It’s raining, again, and we’re a cactus blog, so to the google!
And up comes this interesting thing. Apparently it’s a type of musical instrument, and they’re available for purchase from the Lizard King.
Rainsticks: These beautiful & high quality natural rain sticks are made in South America from dried cactus. They have a natural tan color with yarn trim. We carry several sizes of these wonderfully soothing instruments at fair prices. The longer the rain stick, the longer the duration of sound.
We’re waiting for the rain to start. And for the tsunami to hit. Makes for an interesting day.
These are tiny little euphorbia blooms, and I didn’t see the aphids until I was working on the photos, and there they are! Click the photo to see the larger, more aphid-y version.
Euphorbia characias blooms and aphids.
Be assured, those aphids are already gone, long before this photo makes it onto the blog.
We’ve got 2 employees out sick with the flu. Oy.
We got a new shipment in of solar glass from Allsop. Nice!
How can a glass topped garden stake be solar, you ask? Come back after dark and I’ll show you…
Its the Yucca gloriosa out my front window on an overcast day.
The sea squill is blooming. The sea squill is blooming!
Hah, just kidding.
Urginea maritima
I don’t have a lot to say today, having spent the morning with a plumber in the house trying to fix the hot water heater.
Here’s an old photo.
Astrophytum capricorne
Citibank sucks.
That’s enough, because if you get me started on their latest scam, I’ll plotz.
Euphorbia wulfenii blooms
The UK style of ID’ing a plant is to not ID it at all. Don’t believe me?
Here’s an article from the Guardian about identifying plants, and a picture of a Hoya flower. Try to find where they tell you the species name in the article anywhere, even among their list of hoyas. Good luck.
Bastards.
Pretty picture, though. I would guess it’s a cultivar of the fairly common H. carnosa. This is a picture of what they usually look like when we grow them. But they can also look like this. So that settles that.
