There was some plant shopping this week. I went with a friend to a local nursery. Pinder’s Nursery grows a large selection of succulents. My strawberry pot needed a little rejuvenation, so I bought a few 2 inch containers. The blue grays are Echeverias (I Think); grey is Graptosedum; brownish is a Haworthia. I am not sure what the green one is. Growing out of the side is a Flapjack Kalanchoe.
In the side yard, a Firesticks Pencil Cactus and Soap Aloe (Aloe saponaria) live in an unirrigated bed.
Desert Roses (Adenium obesum) tower above Flapjack Kalanchoes in a planter by the door. These are just leafing out and flowering after a cold snap in January slowed them down.
Tillandsia ionantha producing pups inside another Bromeliad, these are native to Central American and have hot pink and blue flowers. I bought a couple last year and thought they were gone – hopefully I see some flowers and they will create a colony.
Buds on a Billbergia Bromeliad – not sure which one, though I am thinking it is Purple Haze..
My tower of Nasturtiums and Tropical Red Salvia. I am enjoying the Nasturtiums immensely.
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Happy Spring and Happy Gardening..
The Shrub Queen 
I like the cute little tillandsia pups, and the combo of nasturtium and salvia, they look well together.
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Thanks, Eliza, two happy coincedences.
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Your succulents are doing really well. The nasturtium that I took inside for the freeze is blooming too and I’m really enjoying my only flowering plant.
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Thanks, the ones in the strawberry pot are all new to me. I know you are happy to have that Nasturtium! are you eating the flowers?
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No, I don’t eat them just admire them.
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Oh, have a bite, they are tasty. Arugula lite, I eat them with my greyhounds.
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Imo you have correctly identified your succulents. Here the Haworthia are kept short and not rising like yours. Even when they flower. Is it a special variety?
Otherwise do you eat nasturtium flowers? I love them….And nasturtium capers in vinegar? A good way too…
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Merci, Fred. A friend of mine collects Haworthias and I don’t know which one it is. She gave me several last year, they don’t flower but get taller and produce offshoots. I have been eating the nasturtium flowers. They taste wonderful. How do you make the capers?
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Like pickles if you know: you collect the capers that you put in a dish with a little salt for 24 hours. Then you rinse them well and put them in a jar with tarragon, coriander, pepper, chili. Cover everything with vinegar. You wait a month or so and you can eat them. Ideal with salad or with cold cuts
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Sounds wonderful thank you, I need more Nasturtiums I think.
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like pickles, I often start with around ten. I add the others as and when always with the same process of salt, rinsing etc …
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You know how much I love nasturtiums!
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Me, too. making pickles a la Fred soon.
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I love your succulents. Lucky you going to a nursery, we are still in endless lockdown.
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Thank you, one of the owners of the nursery is a nurse practitioner and they are doing a really good job at safety. I have a question, I have grown a Blue Glitter thistle from seed after admiring the one you had last year, I think? When did it flower?
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Nasturtium is still rad! Because we are not planting spring bedding this year, I secretly plugged nasturtium seed. I hope they grow and bloom soon enough to be worthy of salvage when we plant summer bedding. (Our schedule is determined by the schedule of the facilities here. There is no point in planting while there is no one here to see it. However, we are scheduled to be open for summer, which is pretty soon.)
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Nasturtium is still rad! Because we are not planting spring bedding this year, I secretly plugged nasturtium seed. I hope they grow and bloom soon enough to be worthy of salvage when we plant summer bedding. (Our schedule is determined by the schedule of the facilities here. There is no point in planting while there is no one here to see it. However, we are scheduled to be open for summer, which is pretty soon.)
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I ate Nasturtium flower for lunch.. they are rad!!
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‘For’ lunch, or ‘with’ lunch. They are not at all substantial. They are trendy in salads, but not eaten alone.
When I grew an abundance of them in elevated planter boxes, I wanted to pickle their green seeds as capers, but never got around to it.
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Pictures of lunch will be in a vase on Monday.. Some one sent me a pickle recipe.I have to quit eating the flowers.
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