Monday, April 1, 2019

Another Little Prince adventure...

It was a beautiful sunny day when we Portland-area garden bloggers headed to wholesale grower, Little Prince of Oregon Nursery, for our annual visit.

That's Mark Leichty, director of Business Development at LPO and Ann Amato, the Amateur Bot-ann-ist. They're the only people I managed to photograph, despite being there with many of my blogging friends.

On to the plants! This strange, but attractive, pairing was sitting on the floor in their loading area. I have no idea why, but thought I should snap a photo cause it looked so good. Oh and if you're trying to read the name on that gold sempervivum don't bother, it's mislabeled. We'll get to more of them in a bit and I'll give it a name.

Haworthia aristata or Aloe aristata?

All will be revealed soon when those blooms open.

Yucca bacata

Echeveria minima

I kind of wanted to take a nap right here, laying my head on that pillowy green softness of Selaginella tamariscina.

We assumed this beautiful Fatsia wasn't for sale, other wise I think myself, Evan and Ann would have all been fighting over it.

Looking all those greenhouses, for a moment I let myself get overwhelmed, then I just methodically started going through each and every house. Oh, and keep in mind, this is just a small section of them.

Succulent wreaths for the northern states!

These have are made with sedum and sempervivum rather than the tender succulents you normally see used.

Ah, the plant of hour, the one everybody wants but's not for sale...Sempervivum 'Gold Nugget'

Do you love it? Or not so much? I know gold isn't everyone's cup of tea.

So many plants! All so healthy and happy...

Farfugium japonicum 'Gigantea'

Agave 'Blue Glow'

I didn't catch the name of this Abutilon, I was just so impressed with the flower on such a tiny plant! (maybe Abutilon pictum 'Thompsonii')

What a combination! Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' (black mondo grass) with Acorus gramineus 'Minimus Aureus'

Doesn't a sight like this make your plant-loving heart beat faster?

Mossy! Love the shades of green.

These are either pets or plants for kept propagation.

Gorgeous Grevillea which I couldn't find a label on, maybe 'Canberra Gem'?

I think this one maybe Grevillea 'Poorinda Leane'...

There was also a house with tons of tillandisa...

All sizes and shapes!

The final house I spent time in had hundreds of small 2" succulents. The price was right and I needed several for a couple of plantings I've got planned.

I don't recall seeing Echeveria rusbyi before, it's a looker!

And so my haul. Starting in the upper right hand corner: Sempervivum 'Spring Beauty' and another sempervivum I didn't get the name of. Yucca baccata, and yes, in the middle, a pair of baby Sempervivum 'Gold Nugget' (I was gifted these, I feel very lucky), and rounding out this flat an Agave 'Blue Glow'.

Here are the little succulents I ended up with, starting with the dark star in the upper right corner: Haworthia pentagona, Echeveria chroma, a trio of Sedum confusum (these are hardy here), a pair of Echeveria imbricata, a single E. 'Arrow Setosa', a pair of E. 'Canadian' and a pair of the E. rusbyi.  Also included in my haul, but not pictured, were three choice tillandisa...all gifts for deserving friends. It was another excellent Little Prince shopping trip, thanks Mark for inviting us!

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20 comments:

  1. The 'gold nugget' was a huge tease at the garden show, as they were not for sale yet. I wonder when they'll hit nurseries, I'm sure they'll be snapped up. The color of Echeveria rusbyi also is very unusual. I wonder how the color of both will hold up through the season.

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    1. I've heard that 'Gold Nugget' does take on greener tones in the summertime. As for Echeveria rusbyi all the photos I've found online are dark, and I've never known an Echeveria to change its colors much throughout the season.

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  2. What a great day! I managed to snag a S. 'Gold Nugget' last year. It was a tiny rosette that after the summer was minimally larger. I have since read that it is a bit more tender and slower growing than other semps. Has to be placed carefully as it is easily overwelmed by more vigorous growers.

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  3. I am also curious when those gold Semps will start showing up for sale. I was regretting not coming only because I thought we might have been able to buy some, but now I learn not so, so I made the right choice. Every year they seem to have some different things, I don't remember seeing Tillandsia before. That Grevillea does look a lot like my Canberra Gem, although mine isn't flowering so profusely yet.

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    1. I think the golden semps are about a year out, and they've had the tillandsia for awhile now, but they stay in a closed up (temperature controlled) house so they're easy to miss.

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  4. Another great field trip, Loree - it must have taken you hours to peruse all those greenhouses!

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  5. *SIGH* If ever you have occasion to discuss business development with the Little Prince folks, please recommend they consider expanding their (currently very limited) market in SoCal. I know we've got a lot of succulent growers down in San Diego but what's coming into local garden centers is so same old, same old.

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    1. Just this last visit was telling Mark how much you would enjoy having their plants available for you to purchase...

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  6. Great photos! I now realize how much I missed though! So much to look at.

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    1. So much to see! I could have spent twice the time there that I did.

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  7. well, I'd say you did a nice job of choosing your plant haul-and it will be fun to create a combo with 'Gold Nugget'.

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    1. Hmmm...guess I better start thinking about where to plant the superstar....

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  8. The Aloe is definitely aristata although now it has its own genus, Aristaloe. And the plant marked erroneously as Echeveria rusbyi is actually a Graptopetalum, one of the few native to Arizona. :)

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  9. You were pretty restrained in your purchases, though I bet it was a pricey haul nevertheless. I love that initial combo but the Heuchera would want different growing conditions than the other two I'm guessing. Too bad.

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    1. The prices were great, but it does add up. And yes, the first combo could only exist in a greenhouse.

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  10. Another fun visit to Little Prince. Great haul!

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  11. I thought I had gone in every house, but alas, your photos show plants I missed. Great post!

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