Traditional Country Style, 1991

Echeveria 'Lime n' Chile'

This compact Echeveria hybrid combines green rosettes with short flower stalks bearing fiery flowers. It offsets to form a cluster of heads, and makes a colorful display of flowers in spring. An introduction from Altman Plants.

-Brian

Happy National Orchid Day!

Orchid and hummingbird Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904, American ca.1885 Oil on canvas 15 x 20 1/8"

Repository: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States HOLLIS Number: olvwork199203

This image is part of FAL’s Digital Images and Slides Collection (DISC), a collection of images digitized from secondary sources for use in teaching and learning. FAL does not own the original artworks represented in this collection, but you can find more information at HOLLIS Images.

Outside & Inside

Robert Mapplethorpe

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on this episode of Where Are They Now? we check out this SICKASS huernia who has turned into an octopus and has bloomed SO many times since adulthood

Pachyphytum bracteosum

Mexico is home to a large assortment of wonderful succulents belonging to the Crassulaceae, or Stonecrop Family. Among these, the species in the genus Pachyphytum are notable for their cartoonishly balloon-like leaves, often with pallid pastel colors. They usually grow on rocks (often on sheer cliffs), and they have inflorescences that nod at the tips, like a scorpion's tail. This one is Pachyphytum bracteosum, and although it has red flowers, these are almost hidden by the fleshy pale-green sepals that clasp them. From the state of Hidalgo.

-Brian

If you’ve never seen an anthurium inflorescence ready to pop, here’s an anthurium pallidiflorum mother plant literally dropping berries into the floor at my workplace.

Drosera capensis

Lobster and Swan

Sedeveria 'Lilac Mist'