Succulent Shopping

In an earlier post on my spring plant shopping extravaganza, I mentioned that I'd also attended the South Coast Cactus & Succulent Society's annual show and sale at my local botanic garden.  The event takes place in the auditorium near the garden's front entrance and the indoor light is always awful so keep that in mind as you view my photos.

I circled through the display tables first.










While I understand the display tables shown above represented the collections of particular individuals, another long table showed individual selections of members of the local CSS chapter.



Plants that attracted particular interest on my part included these:

Clockwise from the top left: Hydnophytum formicarum, Albuca namaquensis, Calibanus hookeri, crested Euphorbia lactea, Fockea edulis, Gasteria batesiana, Lithops olivacea, and Sempervivum arachnoideum

The only photos I took in the crowded sale area were of pots.  There were more pots for sale than I remember of past shows.

The pot on the upper left was in the show, not sale, area but I included it because I really liked it.  Most, if not all, of the rest were creations of Peety Pots.

Of course, I came home with several succulents.

Clockwise from the left: Faucaria tuberculosa in a new pot also picked up at the show; the Agave colorata I've wanted for a long time; conjoined twin Echeveria agavoides; a plant labeled as an Echeveria, showing some characteristics of Pachyphytum in its parentage; and a Tillandsia albida I've tucked into one of my hanging succulent baskets

That's it for my shopping expeditions thus far.  Even though we had some light rain today (our first in a month and possibly the last until fall), we're on the brink of summer here, which means I should call a halt to any further plant shopping.  I probably won't but I should.


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