Succulents and More™

I first met Kipp McMichael in May 2024 when he led a calochortus field trip for the California Horticultural Society . A web developer by profession and a naturalist at heart, his knowledge of these native bulbs with exquisite (and ephemeral) flowers is encyclopedic, However, as I have since found out, his expertise goes much further. His streetside crevice garden in Berkeley is a wonderland of succulents combined with cycads, California natives, and all manner of geophytes beyond calochortus. Kipp’s succulent crevice garden along busy Ashby Avenue in Berkeley (March 2025) Note: When I say “Kipp’s garden,” I’m referring to the succulent garden accessible from the street. This is not a large space, but there’s more to see here than in some gardens five times larger. Behind the house is a completely different kind of garden; I’ll show you a few photos in a separate post. March 2025 Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Curator and Director of Outreach of Denver Botanic Gardens and a world-renowned...