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Crested Succulents

Originally posted: November 28, 2011 We’re starting to get a sweet collection of cresting succulents these days. Check out this Graptoveria ‘Fred Ives’. Good color and adds a lot of punch amongst the green and gray succulents. Parents of this cultivar are Graptopetalum paraguayense and Echeveria gibbiflora. Crazy how some plants can cross breed between genera. I think thisContinue reading “Crested Succulents”

Australian Astroturf: We Love & Kinda Hate You

Originally posted: September 27, 2011Update: I think we’ve killed it a couple more times in different parts of the bay area since this post. What’s the deal Scleranthus biflorus? We’ve tried to grow this a couple of times & have killed it every single time in a container & in the ground. After murdering so many ofContinue reading “Australian Astroturf: We Love & Kinda Hate You”

Driftwood King and Kid

It’s hard to believe we first blogged about driftwood back in September of 2011. We just got back from a trip to Mendocino, so we’ve added a few new pics to the old post including our driftwood kid. Mendocino rocks in so many ways, but its creative uses of driftwood push it over the edgeContinue reading “Driftwood King and Kid”

Fort Funston’s Wildflower Freakout

Originally posted: July 8, 2011 Last Sunday morning Matti, Max and I hit up Fort Funston about four miles south of our place for some wildflower hunting. This is why we really came to Fort Funston. It’s Dudleya flowering season which means you can actually find them via their red stems and flowers all over the place. Sweet!Continue reading “Fort Funston’s Wildflower Freakout”

DIY Succulent Pallet Table

One of our most popular posts from June 2011. Can you believe that our latest DIY project was once just a couple of junky pallets and some scrappy table legs? Crazy…if I didn’t have photos, I wouldn’t believe it myself. Not too long ago, we whipped out a coffee table sized succulent table out of an old shippingContinue reading “DIY Succulent Pallet Table”

The OG Succulent Table

Mission DIY succulent table complete. I’ve wanted to make this baby for months. It’s a dissected old shipping crate and some other random scraps of wood lying around the house turned into a patio side table with a planting strip down the middle. The next couple of pics show a bit of the process. TheContinue reading “The OG Succulent Table”

Grilling Up Succulents

Oh the humanity! I’ve been feeling kind of bad about these guys for awhile now. They look so sad all jammed in that shallow little box. They don’t get a lot of sun these days either, since they’re on the winter shade side of the patio. We had a non-functional Weber grill out back, so…Continue reading “Grilling Up Succulents”

Countless Cacti

California Cactus Center was on our list of places to check out. Glad we did. They have some cool skool specimens hanging out…and for sale. I’d be the first to admit…we really don’t have a lot of cactus in our garden, and wasn’t sure we had any. But every time we do a big succulent pruning,Continue reading “Countless Cacti”

Holy Crap, Huntington Gardens!

I’m not quite sure how to put our visit to The Huntington Botanical Gardens in to words. Amazing. Really amazing. Hands down the coolest horticultural experience I’ve ever had. Matti said I was in a daze for the first hour. Never have I seen so many cacti and succulents in one place. According to the website, theyContinue reading “Holy Crap, Huntington Gardens!”

SF Succulent Society Sale and Show

If you want to see the craziest succulents in the Bay Area the SF Succulent Society goes all out every June. These pics are of some of the weirdo entries in the show. Gotta love all those strange Euphorbias.