California Gardeners' Succulents #2

This photo shows the flowers and fruit better.
Thanks!
WIB!
Jules

Wow, pretty cactus SW! It sort of looks like a Cholla, but I know it's not one...

"Hellstrip" is whatever planting space you've got between the street and the sidewalk in front of your house. It's hard to landscape that area because it gets hot as can be and usually you don't have any kind of irrigation available there. But it's right in front of your home, and you want to make it pretty, so it's tough! Got it?

Rob

rob, those pictures are amazing ! wow wow wowwwweee that is fantastic.

Palmbob, the Pseudobombax is outstanding, never seen one and it looks totally bizarre, I love it!

Thanks rob. We don't have a sidewalk like that, but I sure love what your neighbor did with his. How does he keep it looking so well kept I wonder?
WIB,
SW

Julie, that's a Staghorn Cholla. It's the kind that leaves "desert driftwood" when it dies. You know the stuff people sometimes decorate their gardens with. It looks like a piece of wood with holes all through it.

Ha! So it IS Cholla after all?

Yes dear, you were right.

Thanks DP, I know it well. At least the skeletons. My dog once had an unfortunate encounter with a cholla cactus. Those spines go through thick leather gloves, and you really should use needle nose plyers to remove them. I've never forgiven the cholla since. I keep my distance and show them some respect. Besides those bunnies were living under it! Those photos were taken for the most part with a telephoto setting.
Meanwhile DH can't understand why I'm so excited. Only flowers I saw in the wild that morning. Oh well.
Came home to find this out in the gh. One of my living stones had bloomed.
WIB,
SW

I do believe this is flowering.

A slightly better photo. I'll go back out today and see what it looks like. These were taken yesterday.

DH's Medusa. I went ahead and weeded it for him.

I love this one. The way the new leaves form in the center and form a cup. You can see as the leaves get bigger they spread out, but the center is still like a cup. Wow!

Macro of inside the cup.
Last from me for now.
WIB!
SW

love the fuzzy edges!

Me too!
WIB!
SW

Here's a pic of my "underwater" succulent garden in a pot--my take on a segment I saw on the Gardening by the Yard show. The idea was to create a scene that would resemble coral and sponges and the like that you'd see underwater. I looked for the weirdest, most wonderful, colorful things I could find and added a few black lava rocks...**pats self on back**

Oh, looks real nice, good job!

That's beautiful, good job!!!

I think you did a great job and chose some nice succulents for your succulent Sea Scape.
I've got one that looks like one of yours. Both seem to be getting ready to bloom. I've got a photo to show you what mine looks like. Mine is planted in a recycled water fountain. Yours looks great in the pretty blue pot!
WIB,
SW

Took a couple of shots at a nursery last week.

Planted in a fountain.

A display bed

Strong color contrasts

Very nice Calif_Sue.
Gave me some ideas, now where to plant them. Heh, Heh,heh!
I am in the process of cleaning the gh. And I'll be if all the pieces of my succulents that hit the ground didn't go and root. Don't want that many in the gh, so I'll be planting them someplace else. Unless someone wants some. Don't know the names but they are pretty common succulents. I can send photos. LMK if you are interested.
WIB,
SW

Thanks for the compliments, guys. I guess I was fishing a bit...sorry, if you'll forgive the pun.

Wow! All these pix make me realize how lush and creative succulent plantings can be. Woohoo!