Since I was nearby...

Curses on you Google Blogger! This will be a fun little experiment. We're going through this post backwards, starting at the end, and moving to the beginning. Why? Because no matter how I load a batch of photos using the (stupid) new Blogger platform they sometimes—80% of the time? Not 100% which would at least be logical—load them backwards. When I needed to reorder photos in the old blogger it was easy, I would just click over to the HTML view and do a quick cut and paste, now they've made even that nonsensical. So here you are. This post will start where I wanted to end and then progress to where I wanted to start. Stupid blogger improvements are not improvements.

So this spiky beauty is one of the things I purchased when I stopped by Blooming Junction nursery last week (since I was nearby...). It's an Agave 'Baccarat'...

I also bought this Agave parryi 'JC Raulston' trio. They had charming singles available, but I want extra agaves to play with for 'Upcycle & Plant' offerings next spring, thus I bought these and have already separated them.

Here's my full flat of plants, those two 4" pots of sempervivum were just so good looking I grabbed them as well.

Once my plants were safely stowed in the car I went on a little off-roading hike over to the berm that separates the nursery parking from NW Zion Church Rd as it zooms past the nursery. Again, we're starting at the end, so this photo was summing up what a lovely planting of Agave ovatifolia this is.

While this one was for admiring them close-up...

There are nine or ten of these beauties lined up here, although they didn't always look this good. In April of 2017 I shared a post detailing the carnage after a bad winter (here). I have no idea if these are the same agaves just grown out of the destruction, or new plants planted in nearly the same place. I wish I knew!

There were two other agaves up on the berm, I'm not feeling like hazarding a guess at the ID of either one. The first...

And here's the second...

And the the pair...

Here they are peeking up at the top of the berm.

But it's time to look around the nursery proper. I covet that bowl but would use it as a planter.

I covet that rusty stock tank too.

There were some darling echinacea, this one 'Hot Papaya'...

And here we have 'Green Jewel'...

Sedum!

Bees loving on the Sedum 'Autumn Joy'

It's autum, the grasses are looking good.

Euphorbia x 'Miner's Merlot'

Euphorbia polychroma 'Bonfire'

And in the foreground, Euphorbia 'Ascot Rainbow'

I had no idea I'd managed to capture that little guy going in for a sip, until I looked at my photos on my computer.

Instead I was just transfixed with the color of these kniphofia blooms.

Hebes!

Of course the agaves at Blooming Junction are a big draw for me. This tiny little pup popping out at the center of a trio of Agave parryi 'JC Raulston' was pretty darn cute.

Here we have a bunch of Agave bracteosa labled as A. bracteosa 'Calamar', but the thing is 'Calamar' is supposed to be a solitary agave, no pups. That there is a lot of pups per container...

Wow, that's a large Agave ocahui! $94.89 and it can be yours!

Agave Shira ito no Ohi, $27.99.

A mix of 'Blue Glow, Shira ito no Ohi and 'JC Raulston'

Agave 'Baccarat', I think this is the one I later bought.

On the top shelf are Mangave 'Whale Tail', I didn't check the tags on the bottom shelf.

Agave 'Blue Glow', of course.

Hey, it's the agave section!

I appreciated the fun pumpkin selection. No, I didn't go any closer. If I do end up succumbing to the charms of seasonal decor it won't be for another couple of weeks.

Hey, the nursery entrance, let's go on in and see what we might discover (it's confusing going backwards is it?)...

Of course before entering the nursery proper I had to check out a few plants in their display garden, I don't recall ever seeing a trunking Yucca gloriosa 'Bright Star' before, at least not in my climate.