Tag: cacti

Road trip

aeonium, aloe, cacti, climbers, crassula, exotic, flowers, foliage, friends, gardening, house plants, impatiens, kalanchoe, pelargonium, plant nursery, plants, propagation, stapelia, succulents, tradescantia, unusual

Today my friend David and I went on a small road trip to visit a Cacti & Succulent nursery. Abbey Brook.

They really have some amazing plants!! Look at these!

How bright and stunning are cacti flowers?

Here are some of my purchases from today.

I finally managed to get the Sedum morganianum (middle top), also bought two Echeveria (top right E. ‘Black Knight’ and bottom left – not labelled – UPDATE – A. leucoblepharum), right Stapelia hirsuta, bottom right is Aloe glauca f. distincta, unsure about the bottom one (UPDATE – Crassula obliqua ‘Blue Bird’, left is Crassula c.v. Green Pagoda, top left is Borzicactus aureispina and finally in the centre – Epiphyllum Dracula XL.

I also couldn’t resist this tall dark stranger, who knew there was a climbing Kalanchoe?! This is Kalanchoe beauverdii.

My David (partner, not friend) loves Lithops aka Living Stone plants. Here are six cute specimens – L. Archerae, L. Aucampiae C257, L. Fulviceps, L. Karasmontana, L. Lesliei and one that I have already lost the label!!

When I arrived home another plant order arrived!! Wow am I really such a plant geek?! Do I have a problem?!

Here I have (top left clockwise) Muehlenbeckia complexa, Philadendron scandens, Philadendron scandens ‘Brasil’, Tradescantia sillamontana and Impatiens morsei ‘Velvetea’ (centre).

Well I hope you enjoyed the new plants series hahaha.