Succulent Extravaganza in Castroville, CA part 2

Hello again fellow succulent lovers. If you read my previous post you will know why I am excited to get you part 2.  A couple of days ago I posted about the fabulous Succulent Extravaganza event held at the Succulent Gardens in Castroville, CA.  What a wonderful event and I can't wait to mark it on my calendar for next year.  In the last post I show'd you mostly the grounds of this terrific nursery so this time we will go inside the greenhouses to show you what super succulents and displays they have.  I still have a couple of shots of special things I saw outside so I will stick them in too!

Succulent Gardens did not have a lot of cactus but these succulents were quite beautiful.  I am not sure but I think the tall green succulents are euphorbia candelabrum.  Too the left is one of my favorites Alluaudia procera from Madagascar.

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This sleepy ceramic mexican's hat was just stuffed with different color sempervivum, echeveria and crassula.  Check out the pots behind also.  The painted pots with cactus and shrubs were so colorful.  The aeonium 'sunburst' poking out of the pot  on the right really drew me in.  I really wanted to snap one up but alas I didn't have enough money to spend.  I guess I will have to stare at my photos and dream.

  

Again my mouth was hanging open when I saw this incredible planter.  Succulents of all kinds just spilling over the side.  The colors were just incredible.  I wanted to dive right in and swim around.  And look at the echeveria's tucked in between the rocks looking all happy.  The color contrast is eye popping.  And the Euphorbia tirucalli 'Fire stick" on the left just adds to the scene.

 Echeveria Gibbiflora 'Volcano'

Inside the huge greenhouses of Succulent Gardens was a wonderful assortment of beautiful echeveria's.  I don't think I have ever seen a more beautiful collection of hybrids ever.  I don't know the name of this beauty but hopefully Debra Baldwin or Robin at Succulent Gardens can help me out.  I could not find a tag but I went home with a small one.  Hee hee!

I would like to thank Tiffany at Succulent Gardens for the name of this wonderful echeveria!
Thanks!

  Echeveria 'Etna'

Those bumps are called caruncles. My husband gave this succulent another name, Elephant man! He is a funny guy.

Thank you so much Tiffany at Succulent Gardens for the correct name for this beauty!

Near the entrance to Succulent Garden was this large Gazebo.  Each side was covered in this beautiful mosaic carpet of succulents.  So many different varieties and designs.  At lunch time they had a yummy taco vendor.  With so many people all around and the vendor table and canopy I couldn't get a good shot of the whole thing.  So I grabbed a close up of one side.  Such an amazing piece of work.

These succulent wreaths were so perfect.  You could purchase different sizes if I remember right.  They also had kits so you could put them together yourself.  Can you imagine one of these on your front door?  I can!

Keeping along the same subject of vertical gardening as the previous photo this beautiful succulent frame was up for grabs.  It is just stuffed with sempervivums, crassulas and echeverias.

Succulent house

I love this!  This just shows the different shapes you can come up with for vertical gardening.

  

The retail section of Succulent Gardens had great mini displays of wonderful succulents and sculpture. You can see Stan wandering around in the back left of the photo.  Probably trying to find things to hide so I won't buy them! 

This display showcased many varieties of beautiful aloes.  Boy I really wanted the varigated one on the bottom right but darn couldn't get it.    It is called Agave Cornelius.  I may have to look for it! And look at that tall kalanchoe.  I had no idea they could grow so tall.

Birds and dreams of tapestry

Check out this cool garden sculpture. There were a few different birds like this.  Very whimsical.  Now that wall hanging on the left really had me dreaming.  I wanted it soooooo bad.  I have so many succulents in my backyard I know I would have had enough cuttings to fill it up.  Oh well, my dreams will have to wait.

Couple more groups shots of pretties in the retail area.  The pots available were really great.  They even had some talavera items but sorry no pics.  What was I thinking?  That Euphorbia Amak on the left is very tall but there was a bigger one in another area.  They had quite a few Aloe plicatilis 'fan aloe' for sale and planted around the grounds.  See the plant in the front in picture on the right.  I have a little baby and it should take quite a while to get the size of theirs. 

Ferocactus peninsulae

So we are back outside again.  I don't know the name of this barrel shaped cactus.  It was in the front planter at the entrance.  You couldn't avoid seeing the flowers.  I have never seen any like these.  It was cool to see the seed pods that had already formed. 

Yeah thanks to Gerhard at Bamboo and More this cactus has a name!

Macro of the cactus flower.  A little blurry but I still like it.

Spiral aloe (Aloe polyphylla)

One of my favorite aloe's.  This is not mine but I do have one.  It is younger and I have a hard time with it here in Roseville.  They don't like the hot sun we get in the summer.  When these aloes get older that's when you see the perfect spiral.  It can go clockwise and counter clockwise.

I hope you enjoyed the photos and this visual tour of Succulent Gardens.  I am really glad that we made the drive to this wonderful event.  I look forward to next year when they have their 2nd annual Succulent Extravaganza.  If you are in California at the time you should try to stop by.  It's something every succulent lover should see.  

It's Another Beautiful Day!