Succulents and More™

Folks in Northern California, what are you doing this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday? If you don’t have plans, come to the giant San Francisco Succulent Expo at the San Francisco County Fair Building in Golden Gate Park, put on by the San Francisco Succulent and Cactus Society . And if you have plans already, change them! This is an event you don’t want to miss. Click here for a recap of last year’s event. This year will be very similar: 40 vendors selling plants and pottery, a show full of spectacular succulents, as well as educational talks and live demonstrations. There is no event in Northern California even remotely like it. Succulents are able to survive long periods of drought by storing water in their leaves, stem, or base. That will be the focus of this year’s event. The show judges will select the plants that best embody the theme “LEAF, STEM, BASE.” And the speakers will give talks centered on these three categories: LEAF – Julia Etter and Martin Kristen (botanists and fie...

In addition to the Echinopsis hybrids I showed you in my last post , the following cacti also flowered in the last few weeks: Acanthocalycium spiniflorum Astrophytum asterias Astrophytum capricorne Astrophytum myriostigma Astrophytum ornatum Chamaecereus hybrids Echinocactus horizonthalonius Echinocereus dasyacanthus Echinocereus dasyacanthus var. ctenoides Echinocereus pentalophus Echinocereus poselgeri Echinocereus reichenbachii Echinocereus rigidissimus var. rubrispinus Echinocereus schmollii Echinocereus viereckii var. morricalii Echinocereus × lloydii ‘Persimmon Orange’ Homalocephala texensis Lo...