My plant haul from the 2026 San Francisco Succulent Expo

In my post about the 2026 San Francisco Succulent Expo, I committed a cardinal sin: I didn’t show my plant haul. Let’s remedy that immediately.

I didn’t get a lot because a) I don’t really need more plants (how often have I said that?), and b) little else jumped out at me.

Agave utahensis (especially var. eborispina) is one of my favorite agaves. I found the motherlode on the table of Bay Area grower Mary Parisi:

Four beautiful Agave utahensis (three var. eborispina, one var. utahensis) at a price too good to pass up

Priced at $22.50, I couldn’t resist even though I already have about a dozen Agave utahensis

The remaining three plants I bought came from the table of San Diego County nursery Botanic Wonders (Al Klein and Anthony Neubauer). They have a well-deserved reputation for impeccably grown plants.

Hamatocactus hamatacanthus (left) and yellow-spined form of Ferocactus latispinus (right)

Deuterocohnia brevifolia, a mat-forming terrestrial bromeliad from Argentina and Bolivia. I transplanted it into a hypertufa cube I made in 2014 (post here). As you can see, the container has stood the test of time.

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