Cistus Nursery, in mid-March

I usually make at least one winter-time visit to Cistus, this year I went from the wreath making visit last November all the way to March 13th without stopping by. I was obviously long overdue...

This visit was such a mood lifter after a freaky cold and snowy February and early March.

Maytenus boaria 'Green Showers', the mama plant of my tree.

*sigh* another reminder that I need to add some Cyclamen to my garden.

And this! So wish I had room for a Garrya elliptica.

The promise of spring...

Yucca baccata

Arctostaphylos 'Pacific Mist'

Gunnera manicata

Ochagavia carnea

One of these really wanted to come home with me, but since I still get all weepy thinking about the last one I planted, and lost, well. I walked away.

That blue sky!

Edgeworthia papyrifera ‘Akebono Improved’

This looks so reptilian...

Fern magic...

And then there were spikes...

Every color and length imaginable...

"Not necessarily for beginners" a challenge if ever I heard one.

But I want them all!

Okay, must look elsewhere and then come back and make my choices.

Aloe arborescens 'Variegata'

Back in the greenhouses there were several fabulous Echium in bloom...

So lovely!

And then I made my purchases and made my way home. Here's what I left with...

Another Aechmea x Billbergia which I think is maybe a Cryptbergia.

My "not for beginners" cactus...

Echinomastus johnsonii

Echinocereus engelmannii

Aloe aristata, one is a birthday gift for a friend, and I "needed" another. Mine in the ground have done fabulous...

Xerophyta capensis

Which is great for its black coloring on the tips of each leaf and the violet flowers to come.

Finally a pair of Fascicularia pitcairnifolia. On the left is F. pitcairnifolia (Cotswold) and on the right Fascicularia pitcairnifolia 'Spinners Form'.

I'm already scheming on my next visit...

Weather Diary, March 24: Hi 63, Low 44/ Precip 0

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