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Home & Garden Show Tumbles Our Compost, Flashes Its Protea for Plant Lovers

When the Spring Home & Garden Show rolled into town last weekend, we made a beeline for the Del Mar Fairgrounds and jumped right into the flower-hungry fray. It was our first time at the exhibition. Initially fearing it would skew more “home” (that is, the...

05 March, 2013 / 3 Comments

New Arrivals: A ‘Coppertone Stonecrop’ and Other Rock-Hard Succulents

We usually ascribe human features to our succulents — e.g. the textured fleshiness of our “mama jade,” the zombie pallor of the echeveria — but our newest crop is made of stonier stuff. The stubby, cleaved Lithops marmorata is one of our favorites. “Lithops” comes from the...

21 February, 2013 / 0 Comments