Far Out Flora

Gardening in the Outerlands of San Francisco

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Cambria Coolness

April 8, 2010 by Megan | 0 comments

After leaving Big Sur, we headed south towards Cayucos CA and had to check out the Elephant Seals. We love them. Quite a few of them were molting.

Elephant Seals

Back in January when we last visited they were having babies.

The guy in the lower right hand corner is molting.

Between the seals and Cayucos, we stopped at a cute little town called Cambria.  Their main drag has a several shops; many of them have cool succulent containers.

Cambria

Cambria

Sedum, Aeonium, Crassula, Sempervivum, and more in these succulent boxes.

Many of the succulents were flowering.

We heard about Moonstone Cellars last time we were here.  We just caught the last wine tasting.

Moonstone, Cambria

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April 2, 2010
by Megan
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Nepenthes Adoption

I’m embarrassed to admit that we didn’t get to the last SF Succulent and Cacti Society meeting. To be fair, we also visited Ruth Bancroft Garden, Casper Curto’s Garden, Sackhouse Gardens and Maybeck Cottage, and The Dry Garden all in … Continue reading →

February 26, 2010
by Megan
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Messing Around in the Garden

Yesterday I got done with work a little early, so I spent some time in the garden. We had a different succulent hanging on this wall above, but it was used to nice warm happy indoor conditions at the nursery. … Continue reading →

January 29, 2010
by Megan
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Billions of Bromeliads

Well maybe not billions… Thursday morning while picking up some pot liners at San Francisco Foliage (a sweet interior wholesale plant place)  I  had to take a quick ipic of the bromeliads. It’s bromeliad heaven. I couldn’t even get them … Continue reading →