Agave attenuata blooms just starting out.
Main Street, San Francisco
Foxtail Agave
Aloe Safari Rose
This one is Aloe “Safari Rose” which I almost like as much as the other Aloe Safaris. But my new macro lens does a pretty good job up close on those rosy flowers! Thanks, Dad.
Aloe Safari Orange
I want you all to know that just because I write these blog posts in a first-person chatty style doesn’t mean that I’m a chatty AI bot, I’m a real person! I have real feelings and likes and dislikes too. And I like these Safari series Aloes. This one is Aloe “Safari Orange”.
Artichoke as Metaphor
Obregonia denegrii looks enough like an artichoke that some people call it the Artichoke Cactus, not to be confused with Agave parryi truncata which is known as the Artichoke Agave. Maybe instead of comparing unrelated plants to artichokes, we should call the delicious and valuable artichoke the Pulque Vegetable.
Rusty Sedums
Sedum “Firecracker” turns rusty red colors in the fall, any day now!
It’s a Bulb!
It’s the Oxalis namaquana, a rare little Wood Sorrel bulb with giant yellow flowers, as you can see. Usually most of the flowers are through the spring, but occasionally you get some through the winter. It’s a winter-growing bulb, so it can happen!
Spring Cactus Blooms
Parodia chrysacanthion.
Grass-leaf Hakea
Crazy Australian flowers. So pink!
Hakea francisiana
Australia
Evergreen Shrub
Upright shrub with slender green leaves and pink-red blooms winter through spring. Needs very good drainage. Do not fertilize, except trace minerals.
Temperature: Hardy to 18F
Sun: Full Sun
Water: Low
Size: 8-15ft.
Snake Head
Aloe peglerae snake head bloom stalk starting to make its way up!
Rose Mink
It’s Protea blooming season, so that’s a very good time of year. Right now! Blooming!
Protea “Rose Mink”
Common Name: Greyleaf Sugarbush
Origin: South Africa
P. laurifolia “Rose Mink”
Evergreen Shrub
Large pink flowers appear in mid-winter, with fine black and white hairs. grey-green leaves. Do not fertilize.
Temperature: Hardy to 25°F
Sun: Full Sun
Tiny Globules
Tiny globular leaves and then, surprise! tiny pink flowers!
Tylecodon schaeferianus
Hedgehog Cactus Flowers
It’s some giant Echinocereus flowers! Hap thinks it’s E. enneacanthus. Maybe! It’s a very hardy cactus, growing in the upper reaches of New Mexico.
Orchid Cactus
A new Epiphyllum flower color!
Peach… Orange… Peach… Orange…
Nice.
Opuntia engelmanii
Common Name: Cactus Apple
Origin: From California to Louisiana; Mexico
Shrubby, sprawling to 10ft., yellow to apricot blooms, edible fruit
Hardy to 15F
Full Sun to Part Sun
Low Water
Echinopsis grandiflora hybrids
Yow the hybrids have gone bonkers. This Echinopsis hybrid is “Tropical Pink”, everyone’s favorite giant cactus flower that we have been growing and cultivating and growing more of for decades. So nice.
Gasteria batesiana
Weird flowers, kind of bulbous, on your friendly local Gasterias. Fun!
Monkey Hand Tree
X Chiranthofremontia
Common Name: Monkey Hand Tree
Origin: California
Hybrid: Chiranthodendron pentadactylon X Fremontodendron “Pacific Sunset”
Large, broad, showy intergenic hybrid. If provided space in a garden, this centerpiece plant will be covered in golden flowers in spring. No water once established.
Characteristics:
Temperature: Hardy to 25°F
Sun: Full Sun
Water: Low; Summer Drought
Size: 15ft. to 20ft.
Monkey Hand Tree
X Chiranthofremontia
Common Name: Monkey Hand Tree
Origin: California
Hybrid: Chiranthodendron pentadactylon X Fremontodendron “Pacific Sunset”
Large, broad, showy intergenic hybrid. If provided space in a garden, this centerpiece plant will be covered in golden flowers in spring. No water once established.
Characteristics:
Temperature: Hardy to 25°F
Sun: Full Sun
Water: Low; Summer Drought
Size: 15ft. to 20ft.
Epi Flowers
We have a beautiful crop of mixed Epiphyllum in bloom, at the same time, at both stores! Berkeley? Yes! Marin? Sure!
Nice.
Epi Flowers
We have a beautiful crop of mixed Epiphyllum in bloom, at the same time, at both stores! Berkeley? Yes! Marin? Sure!
Nice.
Cactus Flowers for Spring!
Echinopsis grandiflora “Tropical Pink” for the win! First out of the gate for giant Cactus flowers for spring. We have had some Rebutia flowers already, and of course Mammilaria too, but these are the winners.
Cactus Flowers for Spring!
Echinopsis grandiflora “Tropical Pink” for the win! First out of the gate for giant Cactus flowers for spring. We have had some Rebutia flowers already, and of course Mammilaria too, but these are the winners.
Ice Plants, Marin County
Peacock Drive, San Rafael
It’s a massive cluster of Delosperma in San Rafael. I think it’s Delosperma cooperi, but maybe a cultivar of cooperi like “Jewel of Desert Rosequartz”. Either way, it’s a little bit stunning.
Ice Plants, Marin County
Peacock Drive, San Rafael
It’s a massive cluster of Delosperma in San Rafael. I think it’s Delosperma cooperi, but maybe a cultivar of cooperi like “Jewel of Desert Rosequartz”. Either way, it’s a little bit stunning.
Giant Yellow Cactus Flower
Common Name: Purple Prickly Pear
Origin: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas; Mexico
Large round pads covered in glochids, blue-grey in summer turn purple in cold. Yellow flowers.
Hardy to 15F
Full Sun to Part Shade
Low Water
Giant Yellow Cactus Flower
Common Name: Purple Prickly Pear
Origin: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas; Mexico
Large round pads covered in glochids, blue-grey in summer turn purple in cold. Yellow flowers.
Hardy to 15F
Full Sun to Part Shade
Low Water
Titanopsis
Titanopsis calcareum is the knobbly little mesemb with the big dreams. They dream of living their best life in the city on a sunny windowsill in a small apartment where they can get the best care from you that your limited attention can give them. And nothing more! It’s enough!
Sunrise Pincushion
Leucospermum “Sunrise”
South Africa
Evergreen Shrub
Medium sized shrub with serrated leaves and red tips. Gorgeous multicolored pincushion flowers of salmon, yellow, orange, and red. Tolerates a wider range of soils than most Leucospermums.
Hardy to 25-30F
Full to Part Sun
Low Water
5-6ft
Blooming Airplants
Giant Airplants Specimen in Bloom
Tillandsia aeranthos hybrid
Portuguese Squill
Scilla peruviana is busting out in blooms all over.
Giant Scilla
Mediterranean
Deciduous Bulb
Summer dormant bulb in the Hyacinth family, in fall develops a compact rosette of 18″ long leaves. In spring, forms 6″-12″ tall flower stalks densely topped with numerous small lavendar flowers.
Temperature: Hardy to 10F
Sun: Full Sun
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