Guerilla planting Agaves on the Isabelle Canal

[PalmatierMeg]

We have pots of Agave pups that we were thinking of selling at the local fleamarket. Then the big freeze hit and damaged/killed some of the other plants we planned to sell. We figure things won't recover till April at least.

Our canal ends on the west side of our property and while the end lot has been for sale on/off for years, no one ever bought or built on it. Now with the housing collapse, word is that the Cape Coral real estate market won't recover its former glory for years, possibly even a generation. So we don't figure anyone will build anytime in what's left of our lifetimes.

Last week my husband eyed the brush-covered berm at the end of the canal and decided it would be a good place to guerilla plant some Agaves. So, on Sunday we yanked out the dead scrub and planted 6 on top of the berm. There, with luck, they will grow, intimidate strangers, live, bloom and die. Unless seawall builders get them first.

And while planting the agaves, we noticed scads of a succulent putting up spikes of red flowers. So lovely on a dreary day. Anyone know what this plant is?

Guerilla-planted agaves on canal berm

Mystery succulent

Red flowers

[Peter Pacific]

We have pots of Agave pups that we were thinking of selling at the local fleamarket. Then the big freeze hit and damaged/killed some of the other plants we planned to sell. We figure things won't recover till April at least.

Our canal ends on the west side of our property and while the end lot has been for sale on/off for years, no one ever bought or built on it. Now with the housing collapse, word is that the Cape Coral real estate market won't recover its former glory for years, possibly even a generation. So we don't figure anyone will build anytime in what's left of our lifetimes.

Last week my husband eyed the brush-covered berm at the end of the canal and decided it would be a good place to guerilla plant some Agaves. So, on Sunday we yanked out the dead scrub and planted 6 on top of the berm. There, with luck, they will grow, intimidate strangers, live, bloom and die. Unless seawall builders get them first.

And while planting the agaves, we noticed scads of a succulent putting up spikes of red flowers. So lovely on a dreary day. Anyone know what this plant is?

Guerilla-planted agaves on canal berm

Mystery succulent

Red flowers

Meg, it appears that someone guerilla planted mystery succulents before you got there...and that didn't scare you away either!!! Peter

[Succulentum]

me Agaves. So, on Sunday we yanked out the dead scrub and planted 6 on top of the berm. There, with luck, they will grow, intimidate strangers, live, bloom and die. Unless seawall builders get them first.

And while planting the agaves, we noticed scads of a succulent putting up spikes of red flowers. So lovely on a dreary day. Anyone know what this plant is?

I think it's Kalanchoe x houghtonii ( hybrid daigremontiana x delagoensis )

http://davesgarden.c...owimage/140824/

jean-bernard

[MattyB]

It's definitely a Kalanchoe.