Tiny globular leaves and then, surprise! tiny pink flowers!
Tylecodon schaeferianus
Tiny Globules
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
Dry Shade Lenten Rose
Gorgeous winter flowers, shade tolerant! Dry in summer! Hellebores are the best.
Helleborus “Sparkling Diamond”
Lenten Rose
Eurasian Hybrid
Evergreen Perennial
Great for dry shade. Long-lasting sparkling white flowers with green centers. Deer resistant.
Hardy to below 0F
Part Shade to Shade
Water Moderate; Drought Tolerant
1ft
Caudiciform Spurge
Fancy bloom there in the fork of the leaves! Euphorbia trichadenia is South African. Caudex, branches, blooms in the fork of the leaves. Nice!
Buddha’s Stacked Succulents
We’ve been growing some beautiful specimens of Crassula “Buddha’s Temple” are ready. We’ll keep growing these slow-growing succulents until we have a giant specimen, large enough to form the pillars of a doll-house sized temple. That’s big! I think. I’ve never seen a doll-house sized temple so I’m not really sure.
More Blooming Cacti
A late blooming Echinopsis grandiflora hybrid that we like to call “Tropical Pink”. Nice!
Green Spaghetti Plant
Common Name: Green Spaghetti Plant
Origin: Madagascar
Pendant “stick” plant, minimal leaves. Striped flowers.
No Frost
Part Shade
Low Water
Jester
Sunshine Conebush
Origin: South Africa
L. salignum “Jester”
Evergreen Shrub
Dense, vigorous growing shrub with strongly, brightly, visibly variegated leaves. Red bracts are great for arrangements. Good for coastal gardens.
Temperature: Hardy to 25°F
Sun: Full Sun
Water: Low
Gumby Plant
South Africa
Stemless, clumping, flattened rosettes. Yellow flowers
Part Sun
Extra Chunky Soil
Keep dry, water sparingly
Tiny Flowers
Those are some very small, tiny, Crassula perforata flowers. So small that in person they just look like dead flowers. But no, up close they are alive. ALIVE!
Interesting Framing
Aloe ferox at the Cactus Jungle on a sunny day.
It’s all good.
Common Name: Cape Aloe
Single large toothy rosette on tall stalk, outdoor up to 8ft.
Hardy to 20-25F
Full Sun to Part Sun
Saturday Morning Succulents
What’s the best succulent for a Saturday morning? Some might say a Euphorbia anoplia is appropriate for a Saturday morning.
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