Succulent AND Cacti albums created
I’ve been making good use of my Picasa albums, creating quite a few in recent days, with HUNDREDS of pix…of all the C&S events during the 4-day President’s BD weekend.
If you have some time to kill, get some coffee or other beverage of your choice…and take a gander at the pix:
http://picasaweb.google.com/RosemarieRoma
Agave ‘Blue Glow’ outside Bot. Bldg. at Balboa Park:
Agave 'Blue Glow'
*Edit~After drooling on a forum about this beauty, a very generous fellow member sent me a pup! Woohoo! Thanks, Tom!
I don’t know the names of the plants (well, I might know a few), so I hope that doesn’t drive you whacko.
There’s one album of the Botanical Building in Balboa Park too. 
Nice Orchids!
Hope you enjoy! I have to get back to my list!
Slideshow…or not :(
Trying out something new…to see if I can embed a slideshow. Whoops…I guess not…or I haven’t figured out how to do it. 
Here’s a link instead~you can choose to watch the slideshow or individual pix:
http://picasaweb.google.com/RosemarieRoma/OldTownBuckners?feat=directlink
My friend, Al came to visit from DE. One of the places we went was a succulent plant shop in historic Old Town, San Diego, called The Plant Man. Hope you enjoy the pix!
Maybe more plant pix to come in the near future.
Two pix from the album:
Many hybrid Echeveria w a variety of other succulents
Frilly Echeveria hybrid
Succulent Cart Jumpers
I realize I probably buy plants once per month, but don’t always post them. So, even though I’ve already posted this in a thread at my favorite forum (thegardenforums.org) I figured I’d put ‘em up here as well.
I’m fairly certain I am the one who coined the phrase “cart jumpers” while posting at Garden Web forums several years back. 
For those who haven’t heard of this, it is when you go shopping at …insert your store/nursery name here…and you experience this phenomenon…plants JUMP into your CART! Thus, when you return home with your haul & your significant other asks, “Why did you buy all of those plants?”, your response is “Oh, those? Those are just cart jumpers! They jumped in my cart & said ‘take me home with you’!” LOL
Most days now I have a self-imposed rule (although I used to blame it on my hubby) that I cannot buy any more plants than I can carry (meaning NO cart, for jumpers). You don’t know how many times employees have offered to get me a cart, seeing what I was attemping to carry! Hee hee! You’d be amazed!
This past Saturday was an exception, as I went to our local Cacti & Succulent Society meeting/sale in Balboa Park.
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- Balboa Park bldg.
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- buildings in Balboa Park
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- Balboa Park bldgs
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- Gasteria, Aloe, Crassula, Aeonium
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- Agave angustifolia variegata
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- Aloe ‘Quicksilver’
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- Echeveria ‘Dondo’
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- Dyckia
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- Maybe Faucaria-Stomatium hybrid
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- x Graptoveria ‘Debbi’
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- Jordi Me & Mark
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- Echeveria lilacina
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- Euphorbia lactea variegata
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- Other side Euphorbia lactea variegata
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- Euphorbia lactea variegata detail
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- More detail
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- Euphorb detail
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- 3 raffle wins
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- Raffle win-peanut cactus
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- raffle win Gasteria w/Crassula schimperi
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- raffle wins, Aloe aristata hybrid & Peanut cactus
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- Echeveria on raffle table
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- Raffle table
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- Raffle table
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- Aloe krapholiana v. dumoulinii
They always have neat plants that you won’t find at your run-of-the-mill box stores. So I went prepared…with my own cart. I have one of those fold up jobbers with telescoping handle & wheels!
They were having Stephen Ingram as a speaker, who has a new book out: Cacti, Agaves and Yuccas of California and Nevada. I now own one of those too (signed!). Good excuse to go, as my collection includes several Agave now. Hubby went to clear brush from the horse trails, so it lent me some time to attend for once! It also afforded me a chance to visit with a couple of my forum buddies, Jürgen & Mark! (row 4, middle pic)
Okay…Too much blabbing…on with the pix (row 3 & 4)…my cart jumpers, plus 3 I won from the raffle table & one gift (for being a guest at the mtg). Names, if known, will be seen when you click to view the pix.
My awesome find (rows 5 & 6)…Euphorbia lactea variegata.
Now for the plants…in neat pots (rows 6,7)…I won from the raffle table. Also showing a few others that were on the raffle table (row 8).
And last, but not least, is the plant gifted to me as a guest, from Mark’s collection, Aloe krapholiana var. dumoulinii:
Now I’d better scoot! Have to get to the stables for my horsey chores, as I have bowling league tonight! Enjoy your day, everyone!
Succulents & Bloomers in the Garden
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- Mammillaria humboldtii
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- Pleiospilos nelii ‘Royal Flush’
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- Freesia ‘Oberon’
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- Aloe humilis
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- Lavandula ‘Linda Ligon’
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- Pelargonium ‘Mrs. Henry Cox’
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- Nemesia w/noticeable fragrance
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- Gasteria liliputana
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- x Astroworthia bicarinata
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- Freesia ‘Purple Star’
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- Viburnum tinus ‘Spring Bouquet’
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- Rosa ‘Alberic Barbier’
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- Osteospermum
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- Haworthia pot + Grapto. hit by hail
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- Aeonium arboreum ‘Atropurpureum’ flwrs
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- Florists’ Cyclamen
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- Echinofossulocactus erectocentrus
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- Clivia miniata
Hard to choose just a few pix to post, so I’ve tried to get a variety of what’s blooming right now. Well, some are not blooming, but look great! Clicking on one pic should take you to the gallery to see larger views.
I suppose that ‘s enough for now! Have to go cross something off the list!
Usual hectic pace…
…or never a dull moment, around here! I have major jungle (aka garden) clean-up slated for this week as well as shack cleaning…amid dental appts & such. Won’t have too much time to tweak this for a while. Weather guys say it won’t get above 60° in our mild-climate town…which equates to “freezing” to me! LOL Guess I will bundle up till the work warms me.
Also calling for rain later in the week. Maybe that means showers (as “rain” doesn’t usually pan out here)…or drizzle…perhaps even “mizzle” as some call it! 
From 3 years ago ~one of my succulent tables (sorry for the large size of the pic-need to get my ext HD bk on line):
Kalanchoe
The Gremlins have been at work on my puter…messing with my external hard drive! Arrrgh! It’s driving me nuts! I store almost ALL of my pix there. If I want to resize to use here or put a copyright mark on them, I need to be able to access the drive. It’s now telling me there’s nothing on it & it needs to be formatted. Sheesh!
So, I’ll take a chance, hoping the pix I already have uploaded online are not too big & will not be so pretty that someone wants to lift them from the web for their own use without first asking.
This is for Julie, to show what your plant will look like if/when it flowers.
So far, so good…the pic isn’t too large.
Guess I will add the one with the inflorescence when it has grown much taller!
Great! I learned how to make a really large photo smaller. Bit by bit, we’re making progress! Yay!
Flower detail
Think I’d better quit here!
The words are not staying put where I want them located. Oh well!
Loading pix test
Okay~need to see what I have to do to get pix here from an online album.
First, I’ll try putting a direct link, using the insert/edit image button above:
now, although I selected “middle”, it looks like it’s on the left (unless that changes after I save/publish). Let’s see, why don’t we!
Trying the tag for e-mail or IM, this time going to next line before I insert it. Ok~That did not work. 
Tried it using “right”–and again, the direct link tag–that worked.
Okay, now I’ll put a pic of Echinopsis flowers below, hopefully in the center (using insert again).
I think the alignment is for the type around the pic! Aha!
Anyway,
this post will look a bit different than the others.
Aloe, anyone home?
Group of Aloes
Put together a group of bloomers for a photo shoot. They are such hams, you know?! Aloes, Gasteraloes & a Kalanchoe above.
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- Group of Aloes
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- Stapelia hirsuta
Stapelia hirsuta
Above is one of my Stapelia, S. hirsuta
Crassula 'Crosby's Compact' with other sux
Editing & reloading pix after a move from a diff blog. So far, so good!
Last is Crassula ‘Crosby’s Compact’ amid other sux.
