Succulent Designs

10/31/2025

Purple and Green 💜💚 really stand out on this front entry, welcoming the home owners and guests here in LaVerne! Orange, yellow, and green 🧡💛💚 greet travelers along the 'Green Belt' walkway between homes. 🖤🩶🤍Topped with black wood mulch really makes the plants color, shape, and texture pop and compliments the grey, charcoal, and white of the home itself. Clients are extremely happy with the tuned up landscape since the old plantings had grown old and were also disturbed by some construction earlier this year. 🤠 Another fun, colorful, low-maintenance landscape in the books this year! Thank you for the support! Enjoy! Like, Share, Comment.

10/31/2025

Big thanks to Shirley Kost-Haskell

for all your support! Congrats for being top fans on a streak 🔥!

10/18/2025

FOR SALE!!! From my personal landscape. A very nice, mature specimen. Will require removal and transportation. I'd rather not sell, but the tree is growing into the eaves of our home, and trimming it or relocating it in our yard is not an option for us. It measures roughly 10' tall, 5.5' across the canopy and 3' at the base. It is a very healthy plant, just now forming inflorescence. Contact me at 323-385-7802 Mike Romero call or text. $3,000.00 o.b.o. Cash is king. Open to negotiation. Located in Montebello, CA 90640

Aloe dichotoma
'Quiver Tree'
"Quiver tree develops amazing trunk, branched crown of blue-grey leaves. Yellow flower clusters.

Aloe dichotoma responds very poorly to heavy soils and should not be planted in anything except sandy or rocky, well drained soil. Clay is a hard no for this plant.
In pots plant in half cactus, mix half pumice or lava rock and be sure the plant doesn’t stop the bottom hole.
Leaves shed cleanly once dry, leaving a trunk that is initially glossy and smooth. Later, the characteristic vertical scales develop.
Pruning Aloe dichotoma will expose the p***y inner structure, and wounds are slow to heal.
Pale yellow flowers in fall, occasionally, but not always, in abundance." -Flora Grubb

10/11/2025

Rest in peace, Diane Keaton. 🕊
She was such a sweet and caring lady. Cactus & Succulents brought me into her life for a few years, I performed plant maintenance at her home pictured here on Roxbury in Beverly Hills. We did installations and designing as well. Jared was just a little boy at the time, I took him to work with me during the summer, and he got to meet her, and he played with her young adopted son Duke when he was around. She was so proud of the restoration on her home and the landscaping that we had the pleasure of contributing to, she had vintage Terra Cotta pottery and 'Sleeping Mexican' statues surrounding a fountain shaded my mature Pepper Trees and Blue Agave. She told Danielle and I a story one time as we walked through her home. She was trying to purchase a vintage clock or sign at an auction. She says, "You'll never guess who outbid me!" Ralph Lauren," she says, laughing and smiling. 🤣 Jokingly, I look at Danielle and reply, "Oh Ralphy!!! As if we knew him. 🤭 That just goes to show how friendly and easygoing she could be. She eventually sold that home to Ryan Murphy and husband David Miller. We continued maintenance for them for a few years. I missed working for Diane then and will definitely miss her more now. My condolences to her family, friends, and fans.

08/19/2025

Help Wanted! Are you interested in plants, gardening, and landscape design? Please contact me 323-385-7802 [email protected] I am currently looking for people to work beside me learning and creating beautiful landscapes and performing meaningful maintenance for our clients. 18+ gardening, irrigation, and maintenance experience is a plus, but if you have a desire to learn, that's a bonus as well. Be healthy and capable of heavy lifting. Located in Montebello, CA.

07/27/2025

Huge Clean Out from last year! 💪🏾🤠 Silverlake, Los Angeles up in the hills above Sunset. Heavy thick weeds plus very mature, decades old Agave americana growth all needed to be cut, removed, and stumps dug out. The largest Agave measured 12' across! This was a ton of work made extra difficult being situated on a very steep slope. Thankfully, I never slipped and fell all the way down, but it definitely put my boots to the test, I needed a new pair because the metal shank busted through the soles. Agave removal was made a bit easier using the Truper Truper Máquinas Agave Coa! This tool is amazingly sharp, sturdy, and well balanced for maximum force to slice through these mature Agave stands. I wish I'd bought one of these years ago!

07/02/2025

What a fun morning with these ladies! I was asked to do a presentation for L.A. County Arboretum Garden Club District Meeting. I brought a large heart-shaped Terra Cotta pot, a variety of Succulent plants that I've propagated and grown in my plant nursery. I talked about landscaping, design, and plant selection as I created the Succulent Container Garden, answering questions as I went along. This meeting consisted of presidents of several local garden clubs. They were very impressed and entertained with my presentation. I am looking forward to doing more presentations and events in the future, helping educate fellow gardeners and plant enthusiasts! Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden Nancy Jean Bird

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04/08/2025

Sanseveria is thee perfect indoor plant, they thrive in low light conditions and I only water once a month.

01/25/2025

Please. Call us for your landscape and design needs. 🤭🤠🌵😳

01/21/2025

Landscapes & Container Gardens we've created over time. 🤠🌵
#1. Peter Sellars ~ "UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Distinguished Professor Peter Sellars is an opera, festival, and theater director who has gained renown worldwide for his groundbreaking and transformative interpretations of artistic masterpieces and collaborative projects."
2. Diane Keaton ~ while working with California Cactus Center we provided the cacti for this Beverly Hills installation. I later provided years of care & maintenance for the other Cactus & Succulent plantings for Diane, she eventually sold this home to Ryan Murphy, I continued my care and maintenance with him as well.
3. Colorful Succulent Container Gardendesigned and planted for a client as a gift.
4. Julie Benz & Rich Orozco ~ West Hollywood, landscape design and installation.
5. Colorful shapes and textures.
6. Agave attenuata variegated specimen staging in Mike Cone pottery.
7. Succulent Wall Pocket Planting. Alhambra, CA
8. Agave Nova with Sedum nussbaumerianum. Alhambra, CA
9. Our own personal Landscape featuring a Palo Verde Desert Museum under planted with Succulents. Montebello, CA.
10. Agave van vanbalenii with lush Succulents to create the Container Garden. Pasadena, CA.

01/19/2025

Flowers are nice, but we focus on designing with unusual foliage, color, and texture of Cactus, Succulents, and California Friendly Plants for long-lasting design and style for home or business landscape.