Category: Cacti & Succulents
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cactus pouch.
Sean bought me this amazing–and jazzy in champagne leather–cactus pouch from the brilliant Amelie Mancini, for Christmas this year. It’s great in my black leather bag to carry all kinds of odds and ends like travel sized emergency advil, lip balm, and hand cream. I love it. Go, quick. Buy something from her. She’s incredible.
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new.
Gifted to me by a former student; adding to my cactus and succulent collection, and so happy to do so. I can’t live without plants, and I appreciate low maintenance ones.
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sunshine.
I spent Thanksgiving with my guy Sean and his family in sunny Phoenix. These saguaro never get old. Right?
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succulent tending.
I’d always like my collection to be larger, but alas, the ones I do have, are currently doing really well and it makes tending and caring quite easy. What kinds of house plants do you like?
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christmas cactus.
Going through its fourth blooming of the year already. This plant is magical and must just have the perfect amount of light.
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art.
My sister is a talented artist; she can draw and paint anything, but her work as a medical illustrator and animator often plays a huge role in her personal art work, too. She recently gifted me this drawing of the merging between my favorite: a saguaro cactus and the bones of a hand. It’s brilliant…
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spring break.
I spent my spring break on two camping trips–I began in southern Arizona, surrounded by more than 5,000 saguaro cacti, and then flew to Savannah, Georgia to meet my mum and sister to camp along the eastern seacoast all the way home. It was a blast; the weather in Arizona was delicious, and I managed…