Show and Tell

Hello, fellow succ-ers!  Today I thought it would be fun to share pictures of some fun plants in my collection.  You can click on most of the pictures to see a larger version.

I picked up this gorgeous 2-gallon blue flame agave in Portola Valley for a mere $25. Not bad, eh?

My first agave, which I bought about a year ago at Flora Grubb, continues to thrive! I love blue glows.

My mom found this terrific haworthia emelyae at her local Osh and bought it for me! Thanks, Mom! (She's getting quite the collection herself, actually.) I put it in this pot, which I found for $2. To me, its texture suggested sea urchins. I topped the soil with pumice and finished it with some glass beads my mom and I found at a thrift store/junkyard in Fairfield.

As the weather warms, my crassula marchandii has taken on a gorgeous palette of sunset-like colors.

Pachyveria glauca is a little less glauca when it gets afternoon sun most days.

A fun little cheerful planting in an interesting container

crassula ausensis ssp. titanopsis

Look at the center of this echeveria shaviana... is it just me, or is it about to have triplets?

I found a 1-gallon pot of echeveria Doris Taylor in Redwood City for $8.99. This is only about half of them!

I love the weird combo of the euphorbia mammilaris, the kalanchoe thyrsiflora, the grapetoveria silver star, and the two kinds of haworthia. They're unlikely pot-mates, I guess, but have been very happy for months!

a rebutia, stoked to be alive

Echinocereus pectinatus v rubispinus

Here's a little planting I made last weekend. I was excited to see a crassula picturata in a local nursery--the same place I found this nifty parallelogram pot, actually.

I've seen these identified as both "grapetopetalum amethorum" and "grapetoveria amethorum." Anyone know which is correct?

Thanks for checking these out!  I'd love to hear your comments (and see some of your pics!).