We are well into spring and we are seeing many of our East Bay customers make their way all the way into Marin (a half hour away!) We love seeing you all. What about the rest of you – where have you been? We are here in San Anselmo selling many of the same plants, all the rare plants made their way over here! With our bigger store we have so many more flowers and veggie starts and Palm Trees, etc., you know. You know what I mean by etc., don’t you, I mean rocks and gems and giant Euphorbias and toys and blind boxes and pottery and trees and shrubs as well.
I have now done my job – you know what we have. We have it all. See more below.
Here, have some giant Grandiflora Cactus flowers. This is a big flower. The biggest one we have, indeed. This is the flower to end all flowers. This is the one your mama warned you about. This is mine, all mine, you can’t have it.
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
SUCCULENTS
Faumatium hybrid is a new intergenic hybrid iceplant, Faucaria (Tiger Jaws) x Stomatium (Lamb’s Tongue) so that joke practically writes itself.
Hoya obovata has round ovate variegated leaves, if splotchy silver markings can be considered variegation. I don’t know why I am telling you this, you can see it right there. I should tell you something about the plant that you can’t see. OK, here we go. Ready? Ready! It has pink wax-flower clusters. Nice! Now to check and see if this new information is correct. Hold on, let me check! Oh, yes, there is pink in the centers of those flowers, but otherwise they are mostly white. Well, at least I did the legwork and got the right answer for you.
Euphorbia royleana has a crown of flowers. Actually, those aren’t the flowers at all, those are the seed pods. Each seed pod has three explosive seeds ready to explode out when ripe. Stand back. No, really, I mean it, they could poke an eye out. You should probably have thought about that before you bought one. I wear glasses so I’m OK.
Sansevieria “Laurentii” is a poisonous snake, eating rodents on its way underneath your house, unless you have a slab on grade and then its under your neighbors house instead.
Sedum “Cape Blanco” walks into the corner store and buys cigarettes for teenagers, but will not under any circumstance buy them liquor, No! It has standards.
Crassula “Thom Thumb” is sad about the oil trapped behind the Strait.
Cotyledon “Happy Young Lady” prefers solar power but powers her backyard grille with wind. She has a windmill in her back yard. She lives in Mountainview. It’s a big windmill in a small yard, but it was grandfathered in since it powered the Old Mill by the Creek back in the 19th century.
Gasteria bicolor v. lilliputana doesn’t speak much since it grew up under strict religious training that it never fully understood, and was afraid to ask.
Echeveria glauca feels like Sundays are wasted since the stress of the upcoming Monday start of the work week ruins everything.
Aeonium subplanum likes the former Bette’s to Go on Fourth Street where Cactus Jungle used to have a store.
Aeonium “Cyclops” fought the Gorgon and won an AI battle using AI weapons and AI friends.
RARE PLANTS
Euphorbia gorgonis is thick. It’s the Gorgon Head succulent that forms a large round thick caudex. Fun! The Gorgons were three sisters, children of sea gods, who really disliked all the people who kept staring at them and their snake heads. So they took their revenge. Gorgons unite! Fun! But watch out for the Cyclops…
Euphorbia clandestina is more club-like than snake-like. It will grow into a nice erect 2ft tall, sometimes branching.
Tylecodon schaeferianus has pretty flowers so I included it here for you, just for the flowers. You can’t really see the ovate leaves so it’s just a flower pic.
Euphorbia caerulscens, pronounced like See-rulescens. Spelled in the old world germanic as lettered by a tribe from the Bavarian Highlands, but brought to England in 940 by Hravarar the Elegant as languages spread and spread back again. First East then West. First North and then East and then West. First to China and then back by way of India, through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean and from there to the Western slopes of the Alps.
FLOWERS
Osteospermum are African Daisies from the African Continent south of the other continents that are nearby. Spreading easily, they are a pretty edition to your front edge bed alongside the sidewalk under the shade of the Palm Tree you have growing next to the succulents you have growing.
Anigozanthos “Landscape Lilac” flowers are too subtle for most people, that’s why we still have plants available. Take advantage if you like subtle flowers!
Lobularia (Sweet Alyssum) makes a good hanging basket flower. Also, it makes a good groundcover flower. It also works well in mixed flower pots alongside the front door of your second home in Tahoe.
Dianthus has a pleasant scent so you can plant them as a border flower, where they will fill out a small space perfect for them. This flower may be too pretty for our nursery.
Bidens (Tickseed Sunflowers) are a great daisy flower that are heat and sun tolerant for your sunny hot yard. Surely.
Argyranthemum (Marguerite Daisy) are another great heat tolerant daisy perennial flower from the central California town of Marguerite where they were naturalized from wind-blown seeds carried along through the Atlantic currents across Mexico, and across the Pacific all the way to Hawaii, where they made a left turn and came back to California, Central Coastally.
CACTUS
Rebutia marsoneri is a pretty flower.
Echinopsis marsoneri is also a pretty flower, but stripey. I wonder why they are both named marsoneri, even though they are unrelated. “Etymology: The specific epithet “marsoneri” (pronounced “mar-son-ER-ee”) honors Oreste Marsoner (ft. 1932), an Argentinian cactus collector.” I don’t like this, what about me??? I’m not Argentinian but I am a cactus grower. If you discover a new species and want to name it after me I won’t object, but I will want some cash to go with the honor.
Parodia erubescens is another pretty cactus flower, but this one is named after an explorer from the Bavarian Highlands named Rubby.
Echinopsis peruviana comes from Peru, or the Scottish Highlands, I never can remember which. Also known as the San Pedro Macho.
We have more Echinopsis Grandiflora flowers blooming every day! Here’s one. There’s another, and over there. But don’t worry, we have more.
Opuntia “Apricot Glow” has subtle flowers.
Opuntia “Garnet Glow” has aggresive flowers.
Euphorbia lactea isn’t a cactus, it’s a succulent in the Euphorbiaceae family of Spurges, including the columnar cactus-like ones.
HOUSEPLANTS
Mimosa pudica is our favorite Sensitive Plant that people enjoy taking out on a sunny day when they are going for a walk along the creek, past the old covered bridge down by the old Mill Wheel. Better bring an umbrella, the Mimosa is very sensitive and it looks like rain.
Peperomia “Pixie Lime”. Did you ever eat the pixie stix when you were a kid? I hated those. But I ate them anyway. Sick.
GEMSTONES
Malachite! Can be used for dowsing rather than forked sticks, but it doesn’t work well so you might as well stick with the forked sticks.
Smoky Quartz Clusters are used by Detectorists for finding metal underground. Don’t ask me how. But metal detecting is more real than dowsing anyway.
PALM TREES
Butia odorata is the South American Jelly Palm. It is slow growing, so it is a beautiful centerpiece plant if you have the space.
Trachycarpus fortunei is so nice right now, it’s called for a photoshoot with famous fashion house Gucci, but they aren’t responding so my pictures will have to do. Stupid Gucci.
Leucospermum “High Gold” isn’t a Palm tree at all, it’s a Pincushion Protea.
MORE PLANTS
Sarracenia flava v. ornata will get a big pitcher, with deep red veins, practically burgundy veins. Very veiny, this one is. The better to attract the flies into its trap. MMM flies.
Achmea recurvata v. variegata is a Bromeliad, in the Bromeliaceae monocot flowering family of plants, which includes Pineapples and Airplants, so you know it’s delicious.
AND MORE….
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