Far Out Flora Succulents, Bromeliads, and Unusual Plants

Far Out Flora Succulents, Bromeliads, and Unusual Plants: We (Matti and Megan) live in San Francisco next to Ocean Beach and Golden Gate Park, a half block from the N-Judah turnaround. We’re plant nerds, but not “experts” by any means. Succulents, bromeliads, carnivores and other weirdo plants are our faves. Both of us graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with art degrees. Originally from the great state of Wisconsin, we lived in Madison off of Willy Street for many years before moving to San Francisco about four years ago. Our favorite gardening quote by J.C. Raulston: “If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener.”

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Succulent Lawn Experiment

I'm not sure when Matti started his succulent lawn experiment, but it's turned out very cool. I'm thinking he planted it in May/June. We always have mass quantities of certain types of succulents. Dogs played and pooped on it, and it's held up. He's starting another one under the picnic table. Getting these pictures in order is way more difficult than it should be.

Crazy Double Camera Fun

I've been home all day from work with a cold. While lying in bed looking at stuff on etsy.com I learned about shooting a digital picture through another camera lense. I tried it with my Holga and got some cool shots. Click on the pictures to see close ups.

Spinning the salad

We took the salad spinner for a test drive and it rocks. I'm not sure I'd even want one of those fancy $25.00 spinners. The lettuce continues to grow like crazy. I think we can grow it all year round, since it likes cold weather.

Pocket Gopher Capture!

Tonight while watering my new baby plants I noticed some fresh gopher holes in the lawn. About three months ago a "pocket gopher" started ripping up our lawn with a little help from Max freaking out on the holes. Luckily he didn't hit any of my precious plants, but he's really been pissing me off. I decided to hit the fresh holes with the hose (pretty aggressively I admit) and he popped out!!!!! I grabbed a basket, threw it over him and started screaming for Matti. We were able to get him in our glass head and relocate him way the heck up past 30th ave. in the park. According to Wikipedia pocket gophers are solitary vermin, so hopefully we are gopher free. I'm still pretty darn amazed I was able to catch him.

More Plants

We hit up the Half Moon Bay Nursery on Monday and bought a bunch of cool new, and many very cheap plants. I tested out my fancy new sprinkler I bought at Target for $7.99 tonight, and it worked well. We'll take more backyard pictures in the sun soon. Click on the image for a super close up view.