More amazing plants arriving at the nursery

  • Aeonium ‘Sunburst’ (4″ and 3 gallon pots) Copper Pinwheel – a succulent with large rosettes of variegated green and white leaves edged in bright, coppery red on stalks to 18 inches tall. Requires full sun (coastal) to bright shade and occasional watering for best color. Not frost hardy below 28 degrees F.
Aeonium Sunburst
  • Aloe ‘Hercules’ (15 gallon pots) A large hybrid tree Aloe that is the result of a cross between Aloe barberae and a smaller Quiver Tree, Aloe dichotoma. Plant can grow to 30 – 40′ tall. Plant in full sun in well draining soil. Hardy to 20 to 25 F.
Aloe Hercules
  • Cereus hildmannianus (4″ pots) The Peruvian apple cactus or Hedge cactus is a perennial treelike cactus that grows like a candelabrum with numerous columnar branches, 15 – 30′ high with distinct trunks. It produces numerous showy white flowers 3 – 6″ across that are followed by goose-egg-size succulent fruits containing a delicately sweet white pulp with delightfully crunchy black seeds. It possess the added virtue that its stems are free of spines and can be handled it without worrying about impalement.  Plant in full sun in a well draining soil. Hardy to about 25 F.
  • Echeveria agavoides ‘Santa Lewis’ (4″ pots) a low and compact grower with beautiful pale purple foliage with flecks of luminous bright red leaf tips. The bright red coloring runs down the back of the leaves as they unfold from the center of the plant. A new selection for so I am not sure of hardiness on this one, although most of the agavoides have been very hardy.
  • Echeveria ‘Canadian’ (4″ pots) A frosty blue rosette to about 5 x 6″ with a thick, powdery coating of wax.  It is an easy grower and tolerates full sun. Moderate stress from direct sun or drought can induce a light pink blush at the leaf edges.
  • Echeveria chinensis (4″ pots) – forms rosettes of speckled leaves to 2 – 3″; the ground color of the leaves is a deep olive-green with grey-green or white-green spots and mottled with irregular markings of reddish-brown. Very similar to E. purpurosum but reported to be a faster grower.
  • Echeveria elegans (4″ pots) Succulent groundcover with chubby blue-grey leaves tipped with a pink blush. Easy to grow in low-water or average-water gardens. Grows fairly quickly to form a dense, spreading mat of individual rosettes up to 6” high by 8” wide, each of which produces an arching flower spike tipped with salmon-pink, pendulous, bell-shaped flowers which attract hummingbirds. Plant in full sun and provide excellent drainage for best health. Deer and drought resistant. Hardy to about 20 – 25 F.
Echeveria elegans
  • Echeveria glauca (4″ pots) Clustering succulent with blue rosettes to 6 – 8″.  Hardy to about 20 F.  Needs little water once established.
  • Echeveria moranii (4″ pots) A small, slow-growing rosette of blue-green. The pale blue tone contrasts with the maroon that outlines the leaves and runs down the keel of their outer side. They send up a tall bloom stalk that tends to bend and grow horizontally. The flowers are bell-shaped with petals that are pink on the outside and yellow on the inside. Hardy to abut 25 – 30 F.
  • Echeveria ‘Summer’ (4″ pots) succulent forming rosettes to about 3 – 6″ with light purple foliage with pink edges.
Echeveria Summer
  • Echeveria texensis (4″ pots) A succulent forming rosettes to 2 – 3″ with spoon shaped foliage with slightly white powdery, grayish green appearance, pink or red leaf margin and darker tip color.
  • Cotyledon orbiculata Silver (6″ pots) small succulent shrub to about 20″ tall that grows upright with many short branches bearing fleshy gray-white narrow elongated leaves with red margins near the rounded leaf tip. Orange bell-shaped flowers dangle from flower stalks that rise above the foliage in the summer. Best in full coastal sun or light shade with occasional summer watering. Hardy to 25-30 degrees Tolerates coastal conditions and drought. A good container or small specimen plant.
  • Fatsia Spider’s Web (6″ pots) Speckled Japanese Aralia – Shade loving shrub to about 5′ tall with large palmate green leaves with heavy white speckling. Hardy to 15 F.
Fatsia japonica ‘Spider Web’
  • Fatsia japonica Variegata (3 gallon pots) Variegated Japanese Aralia – Forming a shrub to 6 – 10′ tall and 4 – 6′ wide with large palmate white and green leaves.  Plant in full shade or part sun .Hardy tp 20 – 25 F.   Perfect plant to brighten up your shade garden.
Fatsia j. variegata
  • Leucospermum ‘High Gold’ (5 gallon pots) Nodding Pincushion – an evergreen shrub to 5′ tall and 6′ wide with gray-green leaves and large yellow flowers. Best planted in well draining soil in full sun. Hardy to about 25 – 30 F.
Leucospermum High Gold
  • Mangave ‘Dreadlocks’ (4″ pots) New! a succulent that combines Manfreda sp, with those from Agave asperrima and Agave gypsophila ssp. pablocarrilloi). xMangave ‘Dreadlocks’ forms a 6″ tall x 2′ wide clump of serpent-like, rubbery leaves of dark green, each adorned with large dark purple blotches. Plant in a well-draining soil in full to part sun. Hardy to about 20 – 25 F.
  • Mangave ‘Pineapple Express’ (6″ pots) a succulent cross with symmetrical rosettes up to 18″ tall by 2′ wide with long and slender 1″ wide dark olive green leaves that have a glaucus minty green overlay and are prominently dotted with burgundy colored spots that are densest toward the center of the plant. The many tightly packed leaves radiate upwards with tiny teeth along the margins and a sharp, cinnamon colored terminal spine, much like the spikey leaves of a pineapple. Plant in full to half day sun in a well-drained soil and give occasional to regular irrigation – the brighter the light the more pronounced the burgundy spotting. Cold hardiness on this variety is not well documented but it is thought to be hardy and evergreen down to the mid 20s° F.
Mangave Pineapple Express
  • Mangave ‘Praying Hands’ (4″ pots) New! A unique 10″ tall and wide succulent with with dark green leaves that stay curled upward in a tight rosette much like an artichoke with the reddish brown terminal spines nearly coming together at the top. Plant in full to part sun in a well-draining soil and provide occasional to regular irrigation. Should prove hardy to at least 25° F.
  • Mangave ‘Racing Stripes’ (6″ pots) New! a succulent that crosses Agave lophantha and Agave pablocarrilloi with Manfreda maculosa growing to about 8″ tall x 14″ wide, with long, beautifully toothed, wavy green leaves, each highlighted by a central chartreuse band. Plant in full to part sun in a well-draining soil. Hardy to about 20 – 25 F.
  • Oscularia caulescens (one gallon pots)  A succulent groundcover with blue gray foliage to about 1′ tall and spreading to 2 – 3′ wide. It has wiry dark pink stems and blue-green 3-angled fleshy leaves. In spring into mid-summer appear the 1 1/4 inch wide bright pink pinwheel-shaped flowers that open fully as afternoon approaches. They are pleasantly scented with the stamens white at the base and pink near the tips, arranged upright in a cone-like formation in the flower center. Plant in full sun to light shade in a fairly well-drained soil and irrigate little to regularly; plants well watered in full sun are more plump and make a denser planting while those less watered can take on reddish hues in the summer and in too much shade are a bit sparse and bloom less. Hardy to about 20 – 25 F. Ideal for slopes, borders or containers.
  • Phlebodium aureum  ‘Mandaianum’ (6″ pots) Blue Star Fern – Fern growing to 2 – 3′ with blue fronds.  Hardy to about 25 F.  Plant in full to part shade.
  • Senecio ficoides ‘Mount Everest’ (8″ pots) Skyscaper Senecio  An upright evergreen succulent plant growing to 3 to 4 feet tall by 1 to 2 feet wide that branches at the base with multiple vertical stems holding 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 inch long flattened lanceolate to sickle shaped gray-green succulent leaves. Plant in full sun to light shade in a well-drained soil where it requires very little irrigation. This species has proven hardy to 25° F and likely this cultivar will prove as hardy. It is listed as resistant to deer predation and its succulent nature makes it both drought tolerant and resistant to burning, so a good choice with other succulents in dry gardens were wildfires are a concern. Its unique upright form might make it best suited to a large container or possibly planted in a corner or even used as a low hedge.
enecia f. Mount Everest
  • Strelitzia nicolai (7 gallon pots) White Bird Of Paradise – Clump forming tropical foliage plant to 20’+ for full sun to part shade.  Nice container plant indoors.  White flowers.  Hardy to about 25 F.
Strelitzia nicolai