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Post-Rain Photos

9/21/2014

 
Fall has descended on Northern California, and recently we had the rain to prove it.  Although this marks the inception of my annual worry that my succulents are going to get too much water outside (which precedes my annual worry that my succulents will freeze, or else get terribly leggy indoors), I have to admit that they look absolutely gorgeous after a rain.  Here are some of my favorites:
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Droplets on a web connecting a gasteria glomerata (upper left), an agave pumila (lower left), and a variegated astrophytum
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Echeveria Perle von Nurnberg
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Echeveria minima
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An absurdly gorgeous variegated echeveria purpusorum that I purchased from Renny Hosogai. It just looks marvelous with these droplets, don't you think?
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Haworthia truncata. Admittedly, you can't really tell that this one's even wet, but I wanted to show off my truncata.
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Agave potatorum "kissho kan" with really unusual variegation
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Echeveria gorgeousana (just kidding; I made that up because I don't know the name... but you've got to admit it's apt)
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Small, crested myrtillocactus geometrizans. A spider has taken up residence on it and spins all kinds of webs that I'm always brushing off. But this time I didn't, and the rain adhered to the web beautifully.
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Echeveria "blue heron"
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Agave "excelsior," which I found last year at Berkeley Dry Garden--I think it's one kind of variegated agave parryi (can anyone confirm?)
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Sempervivum "moss rose"
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This was sold to me as a mammillaria parkinsonii, but the spines seem awfully big. I love how the rain makes them glisten.
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Echeveria peacockii
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Unknown echeveria coming back after a beheading a few months ago; crassula deceptor at the lower right
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Agave potatorum "kissho kan" (bigger than the other one, and with regular variegation)
Debra Lee Baldwin link
9/22/2014 09:44:30 am

Your photos are stunning! I especially love how those jewel-like water drops contrast with the edgy spines of agaves and cacti.

Katie link
9/23/2014 08:34:49 am

Aw, thanks, Debra! I'm delighted that you like the photos. Come to think of it, I *really* need to get around to figuring out how to watermark them, don't I?

Loree / danger garden link
9/22/2014 02:59:45 pm

Oh that Agave "excelsior"... I was just at The Dry Garden yesterday and if they'd had that I would have been ecstatic! The only other one I've seen was at the Ruth Bancroft Garden.


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