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Article that profiles cactus-and-succulent collector Peter Walkowiak (with a sidebar about hybridizer Kelly Griffin), in the San Diego Union-Tribune. Photo essay about ceroid cacti that resemble snowflakes, in the Los Angeles Times.
Blue Senecio's Color Complements Other
Succulents From the Los Angeles Times
To some, the plant may look like a tray of blue French fries.
Dave Bernstein, owner of California Nursery Specialties in Reseda, describes the ground cover as "the velvet on which to set your garden's jewelry."
To the rest of us, it's the succulent we're seeing everywhere, and with good reason. Though exotic looking, blue senecio (Senecio mandraliscae) is easy to grow. The juicy-leaved plant needs significantly less water than a lawn or flower bed. It does well on slopes and is lovely planted in drifts. Rolling Out the Barrels: With their intriguing texture and color, golden barrel cactuses gain popularity Published in the Los Angeles Times.
Chris Sullivan wishes he hadn’t bothered to install an irrigation system. The “Palm Springs-style” front garden that he and wife Margaret designed and planted 2-1/2 years ago needs no water other than the occasional rainstorm, although “we do hose off the barrel cactuses in summer if they’re dusty,” Chris says.
Published in the San Diego Union-Tribune. Earned an award for newspaper feature writing from the Garden Writers Association of America. Fleshy green monsters in Patrick Anderson's Fallbrook garden look like they might snap him up if he turns his back. They're giant succulents, and Anderson's half-acre hillside showcases hundreds of unusual ones. "I like their huge, sculptural forms," he said during a tour of his garden in January.
Photo essay published in the Los Angeles Times
With its canopy of bayonet-like leaves, a 10-foot dragon tree (Dracaena
draco) appears to explode from a front yard. A threadleaf agave (Agave
schidigera) in the foreground echoes the shape of the dragon tree's clusters.
Behind the agave is Aloe cameronii and at right, forming a thicket of
orange branches, Euphorbia tirucalli 'Sticks on Fire'. The
blue groundcover Senecio serpens flows throughout.
Published in the Dallas Morning News. Won an award for excellence in journalism.
Echeveria agavoides As the name suggests, this looks like an agave.
Leaves are bright green, wedge-shaped and come to a sharp point. The most-showy variety, Echeveria agavoides 'Lipstick', has crimson edges
(the more sun, the more color). Photo from the book, Designing with Succulents.
Published in San Diego Home/Garden magazine.
Outside the large windows of her home in the foothills north of San Diego, hawks surf updrafts as Elisabeth Crouch describes her cactus and succulent garden, and, matter-of-factly, how to kill a rattlesnake. "You need two shovels. One to keep its head pinned down, and the other to slice through it." She is petite and soft-spoken, with a slight German accent: An unlikely rattler rustler.
To view the award-winning Los Angeles Times article, "Did Succulents Save Her Home?", please go to the Firewise Landscaping page.
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