Wow! what a great show, the Huntington is spectacular this time of year. It was another fantastic southern California Summer day and the vendors who turned out had some great bargains. 1000′s of succulent & cactus enthusiast wondered the shady Jacaranda row gathering up all there special prizes, there was truly something for everyone. I saw plants from $4 to $250, every succulent species you could imanigine was available. Soil mixes, top dressing of all colors and some very nice pottery from local vendors rounded out the goodies.

Inside today it was fun and games but last night it was all business as judges meticulously examined this years entries. The big winner this year had to be Peter Walkowiak of Poway, Ca. Peter gathered 4 trophies and High Points. His category wins included Best “Shrub Type” misera, obtusifolia or platyclada with this beautiful field collected Euphorbia misera.

Next week I have scheduled an interview with Peter at his home. I will get some plant pics for the gallery and he promised to share some of his secrets so don’t forget to check back. Until then keep your plants cool it promises to be a scorcher this week.

Welcome serious collectors, plant enthusiast and weekend gardeners.  My name is Michael Klasno, my e-bay friends know me as the West Coast Plant Guy.  I have been growing bonsai for about 25 years and propagating some very nice aloe, cactus & caudiciform plants for the last 5 or 6 years.

As you can see we are just building the Show Quality Plants Catalog, it should be ready in a week or so. Categories will include; “From the Potting Bench” for seedlings and root cuttings, “Growers Choice”  with hold backs from the last season and “Specimen Plants.” with  Super Clones and one of a kind plants. Later I will include some of our favorite growing products, tools  and of coarse our “Perfect Drain” soil mixes.

In addition to marketing my plants  I built this site in an effort to  exchange information for there cultivation and propagation. Our goal is to help educate the novice succulent & cactus grower. That is where this blog will come in and we welcome your constructive comments.

I also want to showcase some mature specimens from collections around the world. In that pursuit I have added a Gallery program that should be ready for you to load your personal galleries soon. More on that in a later post.

I will try to get a Calendar program running soon to keep everyone on the west Coast updated on events in this area of the country.  so as you can see, we have a lot planned so stand by and check back often.

WC Plant Guy