Boxed

All boxed up and ready to go! This is how I was able to receive these donated Agave parryi from the lovely Laurel, a landscape architect. I love how her name goes with her interest... or is that just me.......

So these are added to the other parryi's to congregate and create a mass. Someone told me that centuries ago, these were used as torture and killing tools. I get that. But handled the right way and with the right tools and care, no problem!

I love that in the median are volunteer plants. Among these there are of course nasturtiums (duh), thistle and miner's lettuce. This is the miner's lettuce pictured to the left. Here is what can be seen on wikipedia searching miner's lettuce or Claytonia perfoliata:
The common name miner's lettuce refers to its use by California Gold Rush miners who ate it to get their vitamin C to prevent scurvy. It can be eaten as a leaf vegetable. Most commonly it is eaten raw in salads, but it is not quite as delicate as other lettuce. Sometimes it is boiled like spinach, which it resembles in taste.
It is widely naturalized in western Europe, where it was introduced in 1749. 

Wow, 1749! Very cool, it reminds me that I am a little blip of an existence, right?

Here is not a volunteer, but a sedum that seems quite happy to have been rescued form the O'Shaughnessy Massacre. Its' common name is copper penny, or coral reef sedum. The botanic name is Sedum tectractinum. 

When I did a google search, it popped up on a rare plant nursery web site- odd, as I know that UC Berkeley Botanic Gardens weeds it out from time to time and you can see it in the carts being taken to the green waste- don't ask how I know.

Here is the two Agave parryi from Laurel installed.