We've an exciting May ahead! Here's what you can look forward to, succulently speaking, during this merry month.
Sat., May 17: Join me at Wanda's
I'm a docent during the Fallbrook Garden Tour at Wanda Mallen's garden (yes, THE Wanda Mallen, shown above in her garden with yours truly).
Fallbrook Garden Tour 2025
A group of professional landscape designers recently toured her two-acre estate, so that tells you there's more to see at Wanda's than merely (!) her renowned potted collection of rare and oddball succulents. Mature, exotic trees---many in bloom---provide an ideal microclimate for cycads, in-ground succulents, and numerous other lovelies.
Sat., May 24: My Palomar Presentation---Do Come!
At the Palomar Cactus & Succulent Society's spring show-and-sale I'll present Why Aeoniums are Perfect Landscape Succulents. You'll see wildly colorful cultivars, learn their pedigrees, and get cultivation and care tips.
I'm bringing these and more to show-and-tell at the Palomar event.
Notice the new location:
Should you attend a Cactus & Succulent Society show-and-sale near you? Absolutely! Find out why in my recent interview with Fiona Ng, Weekend Editor, LAist (NPR).
Showy hesperaloes
Currently in bloom is a landscape succulent good planted in multiples: Hesperaloe parviflora. These desert natives with upright, slender, gray-green leaves get several feet high. They make great, easy-care, dry-garden filler plants.
Hesperaloe 'Brake Lights' (Monrovia photo)
Flowers that line tall, slender stalks vary from red through shades of pink, orange and yellow. One cultivar with vibrant red blooms is 'Brakelights', perhaps because in Arizona (where it's planted in street medians), drivers slam on their brakes for a closer look.
Ice plants ablaze
Ice plants in bloom now
These ground-cover succulents are low green shrubs until all hues break loose in spring. Now's time to select colors. Find ideas and IDs on my site: Ice Plant Uses, Photos and Varieties.
In your yard now, wow!
Also on my May calendar is "watch for baby birds." You can tell them apart from their same-sized parents by the way they flutter, beg, and cheep-cheep-cheep. Nothing cuter. Enjoy and discover fresh fledglings in my video:
Attending the Fallbrook tour? And/or the Palomar CSS Show-and-Sale? LMK in the Comments!
Coming soon to my YouTube channel: "Collectible Succulents Anyone Can Grow." Insights from engaging experts I interviewed at the recent biennial CSSA convention.
Related Info on this site
Wanda’s Collection of Weird & Wonderful Plants
Wanda Mallen’s collection of weird and wonderful plants on two acres in Fallbrook, CA, is a must-see for succulent enthusiasts. For 25 years she’s directed husband Gary Vincent in planting (sometimes jackhammering) the property’s decomposed granite substrate. “The good thing is DG drains well,” Wanda says. The result is a many-layered landscape unlike any other.…
Red and Pink Aeoniums, Varieties and Care
I was excited to see “Carnival” Aeonium cultivars at Oasis Nursery in Escondido, CA. A spokesperson for Altman Plants (which owns Oasis) told me these pink-and-ruby beauties “are going out to garden centers as a limited item through April.” To create new hybrids striped with red, pink, cream, green, or yellow, breeders likely crossed dark…
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