New Plants at Cactus Jungle

September at Cactus Jungle

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We are back open after doing a lovely little thing we like to call Inventory, and now we have a lot of plants that had been missing but are no longer missing and we will be bringing out so many new plants over the next few weeks it will make your necklace spin right off your throat, probably hitting the maître d’ at the restaurant where you are reading this right now. I hope the soup is good.

 

Storefront with two signs: Cactus Jungle Nursery and Garden and Ross Valley Nursery. Large windows display plants inside. The sun shines brightly from the right side of the image.

Cactus Jungle, Marin
Ross Valley Nursery
130 Sir Francis Drake Blvd
San Anselmo, CA 94960
(415) 870-9930

Hours:

Wed-Fri 10a-4:30p
Sat-Sun 10a-5p
Closed Mon-Tue

 

PLANTS

A Venus flytrap plant with open and closed red and green traps, sitting in a small pot with soil, is shown in bright sunlight—an eye-catching addition for any Succulents Bay Area collection.

Classic Venus Fly Trap, Dionaea muscipula, is open and ready for your flies to get caught and eaten. Pretty plant, too.

Close-up view of a sundew plant with red-tipped, sticky tentacles on its round leaves, surrounded by moss and soil—an eye-catching specimen among the diverse carnivorous plants and succulents Bay Area enthusiasts cherish.

Drosera aliciae is a Sundew from South Africa with spoon-like leaves and very sticky fly-friendly (Mmmmm delicious) protrusions (tentacles? spikes?) heading outwards and attracting all flies in the vicinity. These are small, being a dwarf. They like a lot of sun, being plants.

Close-up of dense, green pine needles on a branch, with sunlight highlighting the vibrant foliage. Reminiscent of the lush plant life found in Succulents Bay Area gardens, the blurred background includes hints of pavement and more greenery.

Acacia “Cousin Itt” are full and flowing right now – it must be their season! The Season Of Itt! Ittsville. An Itty-Pritty-Ditty about Itt.

A potted palm plant with fan-shaped green leaves sits outdoors among other plants, sunlight highlighting its foliage, creating a lush scene reminiscent of the vibrant displays often found at Succulents Bay Area.

Trachycarpus fortunei is the Windwill Palm, as seen on TV in many TV shows I believe. If you were looking you would have seen them as well, but no, you were following the car chase right past those palm trees and never even noticed.

A potted plant with long, thin, spiky green leaves arranged densely on upright stems, surrounded by other potted plants in a bright indoor setting—perfect for anyone looking to expand their Succulents Bay Area collection.

Aralia elegantissima is called False Aralia since it’s really Plerandra elegantissima. That’s not confusing at all, why even call it Aralia, and here we are perpetuating the fraud.

PLANTS, PART 2

A red, spiky succulent plant with jagged edges grows in a black pot filled with pebbly soil, illuminated by sunlight—an eye-catching addition for any Succulents Bay Area collection.

Aloe dorotheae get very red in full sun, as you can see here. People like their Aloes red, and will stress them out to get that beautiful red color. But not these, you do not have to stress them to get that color. It is a natural feature of this Sunset Aloe!

A close-up of a potted succulent with fleshy, pointed leaves that are green in the center and tinged with reddish-brown edges, sitting in a container filled with small pebbles—an ideal addition for any Succulents Bay Area enthusiast.

Echeveria “Scarlet” can also get bright red, but these are less bright, less red. Hardly even scarlet at this point. This seems like a bit of a faux-pas. I wish that was spelled faux-pah. That would make more sense to me.

A close-up of a green cactus with long, sharp, brown and white spines in a black pot, surrounded by gravel and other cacti in the blurred background—perfect for adding unique texture to any Succulents Bay Area collection.

Echinopsis taquimbalensis – that’s the subspecies name, there’s also a different species name that goes in between those two words. I wonder if we can fit it in there on our labels. Echinopsis tacaquirensis subs. taquimbalensis – wow that’s a name. Nope!, won’t fit, never, not today.

A close-up of a round cactus with long, white and brown spines, growing in a small black pot filled with gravel—a perfect addition for anyone passionate about succulents in the Bay Area.

Ferocactus peninsulae is a spiky and deep-ribbed barrel cactus from Baja Mexico. That’s my favorite of the Bajas! Viva la Mexico.

Green succulent plant with long, pointed leaves growing in a small black pot filled with rocky soil—an ideal addition for any Succulents Bay Area enthusiast. Other similar potted plants are visible in the blurred background.

Glottiphylum peersii is scary looking, those gumby-like arms are coming for you in the night.

Twelve small pots from Succulents Bay Area feature single or paired lithops (living stone) succulents, each nestled in soil with bits of gravel, viewed from above. The plants display various shapes and earthy colors.

It’s the Lithops! They all sit together on the table, hanging out. Then someone picks out ONE of them and takes it away and the lovely little lithops are missing their friend, so sad they get.

A green succulent with wavy-edged stems and a large, unopened, striped bud grows in a small black pot with rocky soil—perfect for Succulents Bay Area enthusiasts. The background is blurred greenery.

Stapelia gigantea with the very large carrion flowers, coming soon to a nightmare near you.

A green, textured succulent with dark star-shaped flowers grows in a pot filled with white rocks—an eye-catching choice for plant lovers searching for unique succulents in the Bay Area.

Pseudolithos migiurtinus are small but have very powerful flowers. AI powerful. No wait, more powerful than AI? As powerful as a human? No, not that powerful. More like a puppy – as powerful as a puppy. So cute!

NON-PLANTS, ie PART 3

A tall ceramic vase with a brown and cream vertical striped and rectangular pattern, placed on a wooden surface alongside Succulents Bay Area plants and a teapot nearby.

And we end with a Tobias Vase.

This has been a short month, I hope you and your loved ones enjoyed yourselves here on our email. See you at the store! (Cactus Jungle is the store. We are here.)