Showing posts with label nurseries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nurseries. Show all posts

Monday, October 11, 2010

Fall is for PLANT SALES!

I love plants. I love sales. I love plant sales! Squeeeeeeeeeeeeal! This weekend Erin and I went to the Huntington Botanical Gardens plant sale and the Theodore Payne Foundation Fall Festival members' pre-sale. We also realized we may be plant hoarders. Could a cable TV reality series be soon to follow?

Friday, October 8, 2010

Sunset Nursery: Take My Money, Please!


In the past month, I've become completely obsessed with cacti and succulents.  The tiny balcony attached to my apartment is filled to capacity with varieties of aeoniums, agaves, euphorbias, kalanchoes, and tons of other plants whose names I can’t remember right now.  I even started moving specimens to my parents’ house to make space for new ones. 

Since my cactus-hoarding days began, I've been to no less than 10 nurseries in the greater Los Angeles area.  Armstrong is super cute but pricey, and Home Depot has a surprising variety of plants at low prices (I found a dragon fruit tree once!).  The California Cactus Center has an amazing variety of succulents and cacti, but can also be quite expensive. Out of all the places I've visited, Sunset Boulevard Nursery in East Hollywood has the best selection of cacti and succulents at the most reasonable cost.