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The Latest Iteration of My Ever-Expanding Wish List

8/12/2013

 
My wish list is getting more exotic, folks!  Here are the latest additions.  It's dominated by crassula (crassulas?) these days.  Hm, I might need a trip to South Africa.  Click on a photo to go to the website it's from.  (I try to use only fair use photos... an ongoing challenge.)
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Crassula barklyi
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Crassula columnaris
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Kalanchoe thyrsiflora "watermelon" variegate
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Agave "snow glow" (blue glow variegate)
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Haworthia maughanii
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Crassula plegmatoides
I've done so-so on finding the plants that have been on my wish list in the past.  Recent acquisitions include two crassula deceptors (I'm successfully rooting some cuttings from those, too!) and several haworthia truncatas (and variations thereof).  But others have been either impossible to procure or prohibitively expensive, particularly agave excelsior and agave "Joe Hoak."  I found one of the latter at East Bay Nursery in Oakland and it was over $60!  Had a bunch of babies, though.  Maybe I could have sold them off to pay for the mama... 

Oh well.  Not having much excess cash at my disposal certainly heightens the thrill of the hunt!

What's on YOUR wish list?

Agaves for which I am jonesing (plus a self-indulgent photo of my lovely truncata)

4/9/2013

 
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I was just looking at my last wish list post, and I realized that I'm 3 for 4!  Since posting that, I've added two small aeonium tabuliformes, two small blue flame agaves (one variegated, one not), and a haworthia truncata (pictured left), which has been thriving in my house for over two months now.  (Is that not one of THE most gorgeous truncatas you've ever seen?  Daaaayum.)

But--and I know I'm not alone here--the more I learn about succulents, the longer my wish list becomes!  Right now, there seem to be a lot of agaves on it, so I thought I'd just list all these drool-worthy agaves in a single post. 

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Agave schidigera (Queen of White Thread-Leaf Agave).  Reminds me of my beloved, slightly mutilated quadricolor.
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Agave Excelsior.  So gorgeous, right?  I took this pic at the Dry Garden in Berkeley, where it was priced at $50--eek!
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I've never met Gerhard, but I read his blog regularly, and it introduced me to agave "Joe Hoak."  WOWZA.  (Darn you, Gerhard!)
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I love the red outlines on this agave "Royal Spine.

Are any of these on your lists?  What's your favorite agave?

Some Plants on My Wish List

10/21/2012

 
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I know I can't be the only succ-er out there who keeps a mental wish list of the plants I'd love to acquire.  I thought I'd share a few with my fellow succ-ers.

First up: aeonium tabuliforme (left).  These wonderful aeoniums usually grow flat against the ground, like lily pads.  I love the texture.  They occur in crested form, too.

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I have a particular affinity for haworthia, though I only own a few.  I am particularly taken with haworthia truncata (right), and would love to add one to my collection. 

Supposedly there's no common name for these, but I think they should be called "green book stacks."  Don't they look like a stack of tomes with the spines facing you?  The bigger they get, the more they look like a mountain of books!

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I have a beautiful agave blue glow, and would love to add its sister plant, the agave blue flame.  These guys are absolutely stunning. 

At left is a picture I look at the Succulent Extravaganza at Succulent Gardens in Castroville, CA last month.  They had a whole row of these, planted above a huge bed of blue glows.  The effect was awesome.  Blue flames look like living sculptures, and the color is intense!

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Lastly (for now!) is a funky, whitish crassula known as "crassula deceptor."  I haven't spotted it in any Bay Area nurseries yet, but I have a feeling that if it's introduced, it's going to catch on big.  If anyone knows what the "deceptor" refers to, let me know--I'm curious. 

So those are just a few of the plants at the top of my list.  As you can guess, there are plenty of others (and don't even get me started on crested and variegated forms--drool!)  Now I want to know what plants are at the top of yours.  Come on, succ-ers--let's hear it!

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