I hear we are having some pretty big King Tides this year, what with California’s own El Nino blasting in already. It’s looking like there will be heavy rains, and high tides, some flooding is to be expected.
That is your weather report for this year, brought to you by your favorite nursery and gift store, Cactus Jungle!
Did you get your ballot for the midterms yet? I did! I already put it in the San Anselmo drop box by the Town Hall. Right around the corner from us! So easy. See more drop boxes for Marin listed here.
First up I want to let you all know that we have PUMICE back in stock! It was touch and go there for awhile, as the pumice company screwed up their registration with the state, and then our distributor went bankrupt, so we are on our own for PUMICE now and we are bagging it ourselves, come get your own big and small bags of our own fancy California custom bagged PUMICE. Mmmmm PUMICE!
And the real news this month is that Carey Cherney pots are back in stock – I know you have been waiting, we were too! It’s been about a year and now they are back and we have our biggest selection ever. I don’t know how long these will last or when Carey will get us more, so we are preparing for the rush of customers looking to stock up. Shop early and often.
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
GIFTS
We have been working hard to update our gifts, including pottery and toys, adding new handmade vases and plates/platters. We’ve also brought in some beautiful dried flower bouquets, and moss balls! Check us out – we have some beautiful new stuff.
Hap has been busy making skulls, these are fantastic concrete skulls in different sizes. Hap makes skulls as well as grows the plants too? Yes! Thank you, Hap. It must be October around here.
Hand-painted glazed ceramic pitchers, with dried flower bouquets available too.
PLANTS
Agave “Snow Glow” is very fresh in the bright California sun. So bright! That’s why I like to wear sunglasses. You can too.
Echeveria agavoides fa. cristata is a blast of narrow pointy leaves with tiny red tips along a cresting section of the succulent. They look agave-like and pointy/spiky, but these are soft, unlike the agave above which is not soft.
Echeveria “Fireglow” is a winsome hybrid ready for it’s moment in the spotlight. It’s fluffed up those wavy succulent thick and juicy leaves and is in full blush. This is happening now!
Oh no the Fireglow is being outclassed by Echeveria “Scorpio”! The competition is fierce between these two, who will win the coveted Echeveria hybrid of the Year award this year? Prize is $2,000,000 +/- and the ceremony takes place in Cork, Ireland this year, November 15th to be sure. In this building by the sea. I hope you all can join me there, though the building won’t hold everyone so the overflow will have to be up the block here instead.
Cotyledon “Happy Young Lady” – this plant has frosted succulent finger like leaves. Happy, indeed.
Sedum “Fine Gold Leaf” or is it “Fine Leaf Gold”, I always forget. Maybe we should name it Leafy MacLeaf-leaf. That would be easier to remember, I think.
Kalanchoe beharensis has large fuzzy leaves, quite the comfort in the cold winter months. This is clearly a cultivar, but I don’t know which one. Any thoughts? No? Why not? Are you sad…. Let me cheer you up with this next picture
Cymbidiums! In bloom! Fat, hardy orchids are the best.
Haworthia Byakuya “White Night” has been white-washed. Don’t believe the hype. It doesn’t/can’t really look like that in real life. I must have photoshopped it or Hap white washed it or the birds pooped on it.
PLANTS, PART 2
Isolatocereus dumortieri looks a lot like the Mexican Fencepost Pachycereus but unlike the fencepost cactus, this one is a large candelabra style tree that can get over 30ft tall. Whew! Very different.
Adenium arabicum are back after being MIA for a few years. These are little chubby monsters (laudatory), but not the cultivar known as “Chubby Monsters” (derogatory). These are not a cultivar – they are the true species! So nice.
Othonna cremnophila in bloom with sweet yellow daisy (Asteraceae) flowers. Crinkly leaves are a bonus. Fat stems are the plus one of features.
Abutilon hybrids, of the Flowering Maple, or Chinese Lantern varieties. They bloom a lot, and we like them a lot. But some people don’t like the pendant flowers that look downward, not up at you, but down at the ground. I hope you don’t have any slugs crawling along down there they don’t need to look up at these flowers since they’re just slugs. get rid of them. Beer traps work, but we prefer the non-toxic Sluggo solution to all our sluggy problems. Marketing! Buy Sluggo from us! In a marketing email! Fascinating!
Here we have a lovely example of small polished Aventurine Green. So many rocks. We let you pick out the one you want, or more than one if you prefer. But the whole bowl of them is very tactile if you put your fingers in it. Fun.
Begonia U538 is in our houseplants room, it is an unidentified hybrid. I mean, it’s been ID’ed as U538 but they don’t know which parents intermingled to create these, if you know what i mean, wink wink nudge nudge.
Solanum uleanum is a fantastic tropical solanum with vigorous purple leaves. I don’t know what I mean by the using the word “vigorous” there but it sounded good at the time. Sounded? Looked on the page? I do read these out loud to my niece to get her reaction, and then she asks to see the pictures instead and I get flustered so I scream and then she screams too. Fun!
Oh god this Orbea melanantha is going to have stinky carrion flowers, isn’t it. Well, you can start with them now when there are no flowers and hope for the best.
Oxalis namaquana are deep fingered leaves with pretty flowers. But not today, no flowers today.
Flowers! Oxalis polyphylla ssp. heptaphylla in bloom. The picture is more flower than plant. The plant is more flower than plant, so it works out fine.
PLANTS, PART 3
Pseudolithos mccoyi is the trickiest plant to grow we’ve ever sold, and we now have not one but 3, three, trois, tres, three different Pseudolithos species in stock at one time. That’s 3, three, три.
Avonia albissima is also kind of a tricky plant to grow. And small. It grows in straight rock/sand combo in habitat – we prefer pumice. Did I mention that pumice is back in stock? Nice marketing insert there.
Philodendron “Majestic” are amazing – large silvery heart-shaped leaves with pinkish undersides.
Philodendron “Florida” are also nice.
Fouquieria fasciculata is a caudiciform ocotillo. I think that’s it, that’s the description. You now have a pretty good visual of how this will grow, so why bother even continuing to add more words to this description, it’s done. Over. I’m leaving.
Cuphea “David verity” has tiny tubular cigar-flower orange flowers, perfect for hummingbirds.
Penstemon “Cherry Sparks” has very showy flowers. They can be seen from far away to attract the bees from far away. And the people too. Bees are people as it turns out. More so than AI, which is not people. AI doesn’t find penstemon flowers from far away and come running, bees do. Proof that bees are people.
AND MORE
Cactus Snow Globes! We have new large snow globes, and new smaller snow globes too.
Lovett Sundries back in stock!
New and very cute blind box toys from Mofusand. This cat is in a shark costume. This is fun – we have fun here.
And now we come to the more unusual blind box finds. You won’t find these anywhere else in the Bay Area (probably) just here, right here right now. Cactus Jungle!
More of Hap’s concrete skulls, including the one that looks more like a monkey skull with room for a small potted cactus!