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Bob loves succulents
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Succulent and cactus gardener. Also, a fan of art, science, democracy, retirement and my dog.📍 Bay Area
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Here are the succulents that were the highlight of the week for me. 🌱

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The colorful leaves of a "Chenille plant" on an emerging stem. The main rosette is hidden behind. It was planted as a cutting and seems to like this location. Echeveria pulvinata. A crested example of a "Golden rat tail" cactus. Hildewintera aureispina An "Aurora Borealis" with its beautiful pastel leaf colors. Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi 'Rosy Dawn' A Copiapoa hypogaea. It had a couple small pups when my wife purchased it, but it's grown several more in a short time. It's very small now but they do get bigger. The large stem is developing the white dusty farina that protects the plant from the sun.
December 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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The top of a Copiapoa cinerea cactus. 🌵

#Cactus #MacroMonday #Spines
A photo of the top of a Copiapoa cinerea. It has sharp black spines and a thick yellowish wool covering the center and each of the areoles.
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Back from holiday travel and am happy to report the succulents didn't miss me at all. 🌱

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A Starfish Aloe (Aloe cameronii) with some remaining summer color. The pups are getting big! A quintet of astrophytum asterias 'super kabuto." Each has its own unique white markings on a green body. They're small and round with eight ribs A couple of Frailea castanea in a small pot. They're round and look like a small pincushion. A "Blue glow" agave with a much larger mangave in the background. A red and yellow paddle plant is in between.
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Heceta Beach, Oregon a few hours after a rain storm passed through.

#Oregon #Beach #photography #travel
Late afternoon shot of a beach looking north. Clouds and fog obscure the hills in the distance. A view of a wet beach and a sea wall with grasses on the right. The sky is blue with low wide clouds.
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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A dramatic early afternoon sky above Hwy 101 on the Oregon coast near North Bend. In the distance is a beautiful cantilever bridge that spans a large estuary.

#photography #Oregon #travel
The sky is filled with a mix of cloud types. An expansive estuary reflects the distant clouds. A large bridge can seen in the distance.
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Mt. Shasta with some interesting clouds yesterday afternoon for #BlueSkyMonday
My. Shasta almost completely visible yesterday with a tall formation of puffy clouds. Taken from a Parking lot in Weed, CA.
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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These are some of the succulents that caught my eye this week. 🌱

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A colorful group of succulents including a String of buttons (top left), Panda plant (top), ghost plant (right). In lower left: best guess is a pachyphytum, echeveria and crassula. *Some of the tags are lost to time. A healthy and plump Echeveria. Possibly a "Lipstick Echeveria" (E. Agavoides or related hybrid). A rogue branch of a Ghost plant (with small colorful rosettes) invading the personal space of a Coppertone stonecrop. An Aizoon Stonecrop.
November 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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A young "Star flower" plant (Orbea variegata) with its first bloom. It is a carrion flower, but am happy to report the smell is pretty mild. 🌱

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A Star flower plant aka starfish cactus (Orbea variegata fka Stapelia variegata). It has thin green stems in a dense growth pattern. There's a single large five pointed flower in a star shape. It has gold and black markings. A small star is inside a ring in the center. Note: this was mistakenly identified as a stapelia gigantea in a previous post, but the flowers are always the best clue!
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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The sun finally making an appearance today as seen through my "October Glory" red maple tree. ☀️🍁

#Maple #fallcolor #photography #trees
Looking up towards a red maple tree backlit by the sun. The leaves are mostly red. The sky is cloud streaked with blue showing through.
November 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Growing succulents under trees can be tricky, but not for these two. A Foxtail Agave and Saucer Aeonium looking good in the rain this morning. 🌱

#Succulents #Agave #Aeonium #Gardening #plantsky
A potted Agave attenuata "Foxtail agave" and a large Aeonium urbicum "Saucer Plant. The Foxtail is planted in a 45° angle pot since they grow at this angle towards the sun. It has several wide leaves that come to a point. The Saucer plant has several large rosettes. The largest is 18" wide.
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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A few shots from Tuesday about 24 hours before a big storm arrived. So many colors in less than 10 minutes.

#sunset #photography
An orange sky rising above a distant ridge line. Looking northwest near the end of a sunset. The sky is blue and pink. Trees are lined up on either side. A pink and orange sky over a ridge in the distance.
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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This is a Copiapoa cinerea that was grafted onto a cactus rootstock. It's nearly 3" in diameter but likely took only 3 or 4 years to reach this size. If grown on their own roots, it might take around 10 years (and be 5x the price) 🌵

#cactus #Copiapoa #Cinerea #succulent
A medium size Copiapoa cinerea with many pronounced vertical ridges. It has distinctive black spines and dense yellowish wool on the crown.
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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A few succulents from around the garden this week. 🌱

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A small and colorful haworthiopsis attenuata in a red and white pot. A stapelia gigantea about to bloom with its first ever carrion flower! The top of a Melocactus matanzanus with its large red cephalium. Two pink seed pods are growing on top. A mix of Medusa and pink witch aeoniums doing their fall stretch. They do this every year for some reason!
November 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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This is a "Medusa's head" cactus my wife learned about while listening to a talk by a local seller. It's been grafted onto a cactus root stock for faster growth. Astrophytum caput-meducae 'variegata'🌵

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A "Medusas head" cactus. It has several thin curved stems that are green, yellow and orange. It has been grafted to a small green cactus. It's in a small round pot.
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Some tiny white flowers on this "String of buttons" (Crassula perforata) for #MacroMonday 🌱

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A String of Buttons still showing its summer color. There are several tiny white flowers open. Very small lime green stems are emerging around the bases
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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One of my favorite "string" succulents - String of Watermelons. 🌱

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A Senecio herreianus (String of Warermelons) in white pot. It has long flowing stems with a dense number of plump oval shaped green leaves.
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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A few succulents from around the garden this week. 🌱

#Succulents #gardening #plants #flowers
Baby toes planted in a shallow oval pot. They're light green and there are three large yellow and white flowers. A Tiger Jaws with thick green leaves and little teeth on the margins. A large yellow flower is open. A Euphorbia royleana 'boiss' with new leaf growth on top. There are several tall thin green stems with yellow markings in an organized pattern. A young Agave mediopicta alba planted in a new garden project. It has multiple curved leaves that are light green with a crème stripe running down the center. A large pup is growing at the base.
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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I love this red maple tree (October Glory) I planted a few years ago. It takes a bit longer here in the Bay Area to turn red than in colder climates, but soon it will be a shock of red. 🍁

#MapleTree #RedWed #FallColor
A close up of a young maple tree that is starting to turn red. The leaves in front are mostly bright red and the leaves in back are still mostly green.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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A few months ago, I was given this free cutting of a Cereus peruvianis 'Monstrose' cactus. It took a long time to fully root, but the new growth on top started long before then. 🌱

#Cactus #gardensky #plants
A cutting of a Cereus peruvianis in monstrose form. It has a random growing pattern that causes abnormal, but very interesting shapes. It's light green with deep ridges. There's new growth on top that's much more blue in color.
November 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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New growth on a Crassula perforata 'Variegata' (String of buttons). 🌱

#MacroMonday #plantsky #gardening
A variegated String of buttons coming out of summer dormancy with new growth on the tips of four stems. The small leaves are in a geometric square shape with yellow and green coloration.
November 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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The mother plant. She's cresting later in life.
November 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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This is a crested Echeveria that started as a small branch growing on my large Echeveria hybrid. After repotting, it's taken less than a year for the stem to change into this cool fan shape. 🌱

#Echeveria #Succulent #gardening
A young cutting of an Echeveria, hybrid growing into a fully crested shape. It has leaves growing along the top including some in a rosette pattern. The rest are growing more randomly as crested specimens do.
November 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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A pair of lithops in full bloom. They are notoriously difficult to grow, so having them flower is very exciting. 👍😎🌱

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A pair of lithops with large white flowers. The body is tan with brown markings on top.
October 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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A few succulents from around the garden this week. 🌱

#Succulents #gardening #plantsky
The tiny white flowers on a red stalk on a Crassula capitela. A flower bud emerges on an Aloe compressa. Closeup of a cutting growing after being removed from a large mangave "Pineapple Express." It has thin green leaves with large brown spots. An unidentified Echeveria hybrid with red and green color. It has several flower stalks but no flowers.
October 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Not only is this resilient Echeveria "Sahara" bouncing back from its first full-sun summer in the garden, it's having pups. 🌱

#Echeveria #succulent #plantsky #gardensky
An Echeveria "Sahara" in a rock garden. It has blue leaves with pink on the leaf margins. It has three very blue tiny pups at the base which are protected from the sun.
October 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM