Homeward

After spending yesterday eating, reading, snacking and napping (it was so nice!) today we headed home. We ‘accidentally’ managed to hit Carpinteria for lunch and as long as we were there….

The biggest and oldest Christmas cactus I’ve ever seen -so awesome - plus the 2” succulents that followed us home

Seaside Gardens (here) was our first stop. We’ve been there before - great selection, reasonable prices (much better than other stores in our area) and lots of pretty things to admire.

 Variegated snake plant

They didn’t have the thing I was looking for but we came away with a snake plant ⬆️, big ⬇️ and little cacti, plus a selection of planting pots. 

 The flowers on this Echveria will be orange! Can’t wait.

Gallop and Stribling Orchids, just down the road, was a big surprise. 

 Orchids everywhere 

I knew they had a plant and gift shop but didn’t realize they also had warehouse-size greenhouses packed full of orchids, with a nice sideline in succulents and air plants. 

 Bought more air plants and a piece of driftwood to display them.

Plus one of the largest orchid propagation labs in the US. 

It was amazing. 

We picked up a few things 

 How could we resist lime green orchids?

and if the orchids I already have survive, we’ll be going back for more!