May 11, 2010
DWR Planters Project | Berkeley.
Our second annual Planters Project is underway. We’ve teamed up with some of the best garden artists and landscape architects in the country to bring you inspiring ideas for your space. Using a DWR planter as their canvas, five teams of creative green thumbs will present their work at a local DWR Studio. First up is Cactus Jungle, Nursery and Garden, a Berkeley business that grows its plants using 100% natural and certified organic fertilizers and ingredients in their soil mixes.
Owners Hap Hollibaugh and Peter Lipson have been growing cactus and succulents for more than 20 years, and Hap’s interest in these plants goes back to when he was living in Alaska and a moose broke into his family’s greenhouse. The succulents survived the attack, and Hap’s been a fan of these hardy plants ever since. For our project, they transformed our illuminated Vaso Rettangolare Planter with different types of succulents. Photos courtesy of Peter Lipson.
The plants used are: Aeonium subplanum; Aeonium decorum “Tricolor”; Aeonium “Schwartzkopf” – Black Rose; Antimima granitica; Crassula nudicaulis; Echeveria imbricata; Echeveria "Metallica"; Euphorbia tirucallii – Pencil Cactus, Milk Bush, Firesticks; Sedum kimnachii; Sedum makinoi “Ogon".
Posted by Gwendolyn Horton at 01:08:16 PM in DWR Events
I love succulents! This is one of the many things that living in SoCal spoiled me to – great landscapes using succulents that can appear at times otherworldly! Love them! Such great strong forms.
Nice post from DWR blogs.