Succulents and More™

I haven’t done a proper tour of our own garden in a while. Time to fix that. This post shows the front yard at the end of October 2026. I’ll have a tour of the backyard in due time. Look at this Google satellite photo of our property to get your bearing. The tour starts at the far end of the L-shaped sidewalk bed (on the right in the photo below) and then continues in the direction of the arrow: ↷ Our property ends (or begins) at the communal mailboxes on the right: ↷ The apple-green aloe is Aloe vaombe × spectabilis : ↷ The tall orange-red aloe is Aloe ‘Erik the Red’. It's stressed because it didn't receive much water over the summer. As we head into the cool and rainy season, the leaves will turn green and plump up. ↷ The silver leaves belong to Eucalyptus macrocarpa , a mallee (tall shrub with multiple trunks) from Western Australia where it’s commonly known as “mottlecah” or “rose of the west:” ↷ On the right is Agave ovatifolia , in the middle Yucca rostrata : ↷ To...