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Bromeliads with blooms and barbs, and other oddities in my garden
Cacti, agaves, yuccas and their kinfolk may have been around the longest in our garden, but they’re not the only spiky residents. More recently, they’ve…
Peacock Horticultural Nursery: still one of my favorite places to buy plants, spiky and otherwise
On Saturday I had the opportunity to revisit one of my favorite nurseries: Peacock Horticultural Nursery in Sebastopol, Sonoma County. If traffic is smooth, it’s a…
A spiky surprise in the country
I live in Davis, about 15 miles west of Sacramento, the capital of California. Our town of 65,000 is surrounded by a flood plain to…
Rotting agaves don't hurt so good
When John Mellencamp wrote his song “Hurts So Good,” he definitely wasn’t thinking of two of his favorite agaves rotting away. That, my friends, does…
2018 is the year of the mangave
Agaves are great the way they are. But do you know what’s even cooler? The love children from a hanky-panky between an agave and a…
Our aloes are finally flowering—and how!
All things come to those who wait, they say. It certainly took a while this year for the flowers on our aloes to open. I’m…
Cactus and aloe sightings at UC Davis (rare euphorbia, too)
On Saturday I had friends from the East Bay visiting. After a docent-led walk through the Acacia Grove in the UC Davis Arboretum, I took…
UC Santa Cruz Arboretum in late winter: Australian Garden
In part 1 of this post I showed you the South African Garden at the University of California Santa Cruz Arboretum. Many shrubs from the…
UC Santa Cruz Arboretum in late winter: South African Garden
The University of California Santa Cruz Arboretum is arguably the best place in Northern California to see plants from the southern hemisphere (especially South Africa and…