We are having a March discount, but most of you won’t be interested, so you can just skip ahead down to the plants.
We are putting our Blind Box Toys on sale, 50% off! thru March 31.
We have some old styles, some fascinating Unicornos and Mermicornos from a few years ago, no longer available but we still have some! and more that we want to clear through, so we can bring out a whole bunch of new Blind Box Toys this spring. Take advantage! There is no limit to how many you can get at 50% off.
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
SPRING TIME FOR VEGGIE STARTS AND SEEDS
Spring is popping up here pretty quickly! It is still getting into the lower 40s at night, so it will be a couple more weeks before we bring out tomatoes and peppers, but lots of herbs and veg are ready to plant now! We are stocked up on soils, amendments, fertilizers and pesticides so you can get started and not worry.
Also we are clearing out some old fixtures, big and small, since we don’t need as much in storage now that we are entering spring with only one store. Clear them out! so we have a place to store our alternate-history time-portal between our adventures into the past.
SUCCULENT PLANTS IS THE CATEGORY
Aloe “White Stag” is our first succulent this month, I think it can handle the attention. Oh no it is getting shy and withdrawing, oh no it has left the building.
Echeveria “Etna” is exploding. The caruncles are everywhere. So hot. So flowing.
Haworthia “Enon” is not wild, not fancy, not particular, just a fun-loving party-animal. Go Enon, go!
Dudleya hassei is cute, will get powdery white in the full sun. California native from coastal SoCal.
Crassula tabularis is a small friend of the Jade plants, but it is not a Jade plant itself. It will not get tall, will not form a trunk, will not lose all it’s precious leaves when the temps get down to 28F every 20 years, but it does have small white-pink star-shaped flowers too.
Aeonium “Kiwi” is a standard low growing succulent subshrub with colorful leaves and yellow flowers.
Aeonium arboreum v. rubrolineata has reddish lines on the leaves which makes it extra special. It is a pretty plant, what a pretty plant.
Agave leopoldii is a sharp plant, what a sharp plant.
CACTUS PLANTS IS THE CATEGORY
Polaskia chichipe is a sturdy plant with spines and stems and roots and photosynthetic capabilities all rolled into one fancy cactus. I think we should raise the price before you come in, these are nicer than I meant them to be. Hold on…. wait a moment… OK, they’re ready for you.
Pachycereus marginatus is used to for vertical fence posts in Mexico or southern desert areas of the US, however it will keep growing so be aware that it is a living fence and it takes a lot of plants to get started so it is a very fancy way to build a fence out of living plants when some people would just get some cut and dried plain wood posts from the local fence store and they would be dead and ready to womp into the ground, no rooting needed.
Grusonia invicta is the massively spiny cholla relative that will need to be placed somewhere away from the standard walkways and sidewalks and play areas but mostly if you play ball in the same yard where they have been planted the ball will be sucked into the vortex of these plants and be sent to a far away world in a far away galaxy.
Mammillaria gracilis are tiny bulbous white-spined stems. They will grow towards you, never away from you. They love you since you are a star, a sun, a source of UV light and heat.
Mammillaria spinosissima have yellow flowers.
RARE PLANTS IS THE CATEGORY
Haworthia “OB1” is one of the most fascinating succulents. It has windows into the insides of the leaves, and strong under-markings too. It makes the bulbous leaves look ready to burst, popping out little baby aliens jumping in your face at a moments notice, but no they do not do that. Never? Yes, I mean no, I mean never….  never,,,,,
Haworthia turgida v. suberecta came to us without a name so I have done my best to identify these small erect turgid leaves. Was it really that simple? No! I spent a lot of time figuring this one out and I had to get help from our parallel universe alternate selves who are more expert at haworthias than we are. But it’s OK, we help them out with ID’ing caudiciforms so it’s a fair trade.
Haworthia magnifica v. acuminata is not as turgid, not as erect. I love those words! Spectacular words. I am a wordsmith today, other days I am a botanist or a gardener or a cook or an architect or a shadow sitting on the park bench and enjoying the waterfront view.
Euphorbia baioensis comes to us from a parallel universe where the aliens took over the earth decades ago. Scary!
Oxalis gigantea are an alien plant that will make your senior thesis alien-zombie movie project more authentic. This note is for the film majors at our nations finest colleges and universities, the rest of you are too old for this plan of action, you can go sit down and rest instead.
Albuca longipes coming into flower. Otherwise it is a small underground bulb with grassy like leaves and then it goes dormant. But now we have flowers! Opening soon.
I SEE WE HAVE MORE PLANTS IN THIS CATEGORY
Airplants are back and overflowing the bins.
Dendrobium kingianum, the Pink Rock Orchid so called because 1. the buds are ready to burst open into pink flowers, 2. they grow in rocky soils, and 3. they are orchids. It’s so simple when you think about it!
Anthuriums in bloom, red and purple varieties. Even some green flowering Anthuriums if you can believe it.
Peperomia “Frost” will grow wild in the forests and you better step up your game to become a caretaker of these independent plants. Do you ever wonder if sometimes my plant descriptions have nothing to do with the plant in the picture and instead are just the mad ramblings of a white boy from Boston? No, that can’t be. Someone must be controlling something here, it can’t be random. What is going on!
I SEE WE HAVE PERENNIALS IN THIS CATEGORY
Grevillea “Bonfire” has small clusters of very cherry red flowers.
Leucadendron “Golden Tip” has lots of new growth at the tips. Narrow vertical stems, colorful leaves and flowers all spring long and into summer and into fall and into winter too.
Leucadendron “Jester” is already open and the cone flowers are coning.
Protea “Pink Ice” is also already and open and blooming.
POTTERY AND MORE
New Indoor pots include these hand painted glazed pots, in two sizes.
These are interesting. Indoor or outdoor! Very blobby.
These are less blobby, but no less classy.
New doormats in stock! New doormats! Hurry! Hurray!
Outdoor pottery is very colorful.
Wait not those. These are only moderately colorful, but the saucers are included. Nice!
These are the very colorful new outdoor pots. Well, some of them anyway.