loving my hens and chicks.
hens and chicks, succulents in my garden
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hens and chicks = Echeveria elegans
- succulents in the garden, “Mexican Snowball, Mexican Gem, Pearl Echeveria, White Mexican Rose”
Echeveria elegans
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garden snapshot, aeonium flowers start to open
Compare this to last week’s photo: link here
aeonium starts to bloom
flowers start to open on the cones of the aeonium
my gorgeous aeonium
aeonium, ready to explode!
My aeonium is going to explode into a million gazillion little yellow buds very, very soon~! Check out those cones. . .
flowering cones of the aeonium
garden snapshots: happy succulents! Kalanchoe tomentosa and echeveria glauca
- the fuzzy one is a Kalanchoe (pronounced KAL-n-KOH-ee) tomentosa and the hens and chicks are Echeveria glauca
garden thursday, Dudleya farinosa: Bluff Lettuce
Dudleya farinosa: Bluff Lettuce
I love this plant. Given to me as a gift in 2004, its my very first succulent. The original start for this little guy was given to me by my dear friend Marin, himself an avid gardener, cook and intrepid camper. In fact, while on one of his camping trips to Point Reyes, he found a bunch of dudleya on an outcropping near the beach and, since I’d expressed an interest in learning to garden, he plucked a pup from the plant, and brought it back for me. At that time I was just starting my garden by growing some poppies from seed on my terrace. He asked me if I’d considered planting succulents and I explained I didn’t even know what they were. He gave me the dudleya pup, wrapped in damp paper, and explained what I needed to do. . . just put it in the soil! I treated it gingerly, so afraid that I’d kill it, but of course . . . it grew. And quickly. And changed shape and form fantastically! My love of succulents was born. The plant has thrived since 2004, the one pictured above being one of the many offspring from its hearty parent. I always think of Martin when I see this succulent. He and this plant got me started and inspired my love for gardening and especially, for succulents. Martin has since moved back to Spain so when I see my Dudleya, I’m reminded of my dear friend.
ENORMOUS inflorescence spotted, in the Castro!
OH MY- but that’s a big one. . . MAGNIFICENT!
an inflorescence is a flower stalk, this one growing upward from an agave plant
garden snapshot, succulents of course
garden snapshot, succulents
some aeonium, senecio, crassula falcata. . .
garden snapshot, aeonium ‘cyclops’
succulent garden snapshot, aeonium cyclops
aeonium cyclops
aeonium cyclops
garden snapshot, oscularia deltoides
oscularia deltoides
ah, oscularia deltoides, a prolific groundcover that grows fast in the garden- It produces simple but pretty lavender blooms in the springtime.
garden snapshots, succulent garden in september
my succulent garden, September 2010
senecio mandraliscae and graptopetalum paraguayense or, "Ghost Plant" in my succulent garden September 2010
Portulacaria afra/ crassula portulacaria aka, the Elephant's Food/ 'Spekboom', September 2010
garden snapshots, crassula falcata
crassula falcata, a succulent in my garden
garden snapshot, aeonium tabuliforme
aeonium tabuliforme
garden snapshot, tagine among the succulents!
Tagine the cat visits my garden, all the way from Pennsylvania
garden snapshot, succulent metamorphosis, Echeveria ‘Topsy Turvy’
Echeveria 'Topsy Turvy', as it looks now in my garden
over a period of time that seemed like overnight, the shape of this succulent transformed as it shot up two flower stalks, giving it an almost lynx-like appearance. Compare to these pics which show you how it looked last month. . .
Echeveria 'Topsy Turvy', the "before" photo
Thanks for the plant ID FarOutFlora. . . this is Echeveria ‘Topsy Turvy‘
garden snapshot, aeonium tabuliforme
a snapshot from my garden: aeonium tabuliforme blossom
garden snapshot, pachyveria nellii
Pachyveria Nellii, succulent plant
A gorgeous contribution to the garden from none other than L. of Matte Gray, gardener extra- ordinaire!
garden snapshot, kalanchoe luciae, ‘paddle plant’
afternoon sun on ‘paddle plant’ kalanchoe luciae, June 2010
garden snapshot, Sempervium Arachnoideum, the ‘cobweb’ succulent
One of my favorites, the Sempervium Arachnoideum, or ‘cobweb succulent’
Sempervium Arachnoideum, cobweb succulent
Sempervium Arachnoideum, cobweb succulent
Sempervium Arachnoideum, cobweb succulent
garden snapshot, Echeveria harmsii (“plush plant” or “fox’s ear”)
may 2010, morning light on a beautiful fuzzy succulent, Echeveria harmsii!
