Got to love those echeverias

Roger Boddaert says:

Do you grow any white flowering Jacarandas?
Thanks
Tree Man of Fallbrook

Posted on May 19, 2011 at 4:45 am.

cinty says:

I am looking for a place to buy the nice, thick grape stakes for a fence.  I do not want the thin ones, redwood or synthetic.  I would love to find some that are 4ft….but they can be cut.  Who knows where to find the classic stakes?

Thank you!

Posted on May 19, 2011 at 8:26 am.

Ron says:

Used to grow Echeveria’s when I was a little kid…only the ones I grew were the old fashioned, common ones,  a green and sort of purplish tip color to them.  My Grandmother had them in her garden and on a visit she sent me home with a few to plant at my home.  I remember well that she called them ‘hen and chick’ plants, mainly because the big main one was the ‘hen’ and the ‘chicks’ were the new little ones that would peek out around the edges, just as the hens and chicks did in her hen house!

Thanks for reminding me of my early beginnings into the world of Horticulture!

Posted on May 19, 2011 at 1:48 pm.

Ron says:

To Roger Boddaert…I used to work at Monrovia Nursery many years ago….almost in a different lifetime ago, and they were trying to grow them at that time.  They couldn’t get them to grow from cuttings, could only grow them from grafting them, which is a pretty slow way to get trees out into the market.  I think they eventually gave up so if you can get one, you will be pretty lucky.  I remember how beautiful the one was that they were getting the graft wood from.  Hope someone else has them on the market by now!

Posted on May 19, 2011 at 2:08 pm.