Phoenix Perennials visit

I have found my new home. A few weeks ago I posted a few pictures from Phoenix Perennials at the Pacific Northwest Palm and Exotic Plant Society annual plant sale and I keep finding myself coming up with excuses to go back.  This weekend I had the most legitimate excuse yet, sun! The sun was apparently shining everywhere but at my house (a conspiracy I'm sure).  Not that I needed an excuse to visit a place this wonderful.  I actually find myself overwhelmed when I go.  I walk around aimlessly for hours holding different plants.

Every time I see this trochodendron aralioides I want to plant it at my neighbours house.  You see, I really don't have a home for this, but if it just so happened to land on the other side of the fence, I really would not complain.

This acacia pravissima on the other hand could always find a home in my yard.

And of course an object of plant lust... chamaerops humilis cerifera.

Pineapple guava is a plant that always attracts my attention.  I think its the silvery undersides of the leaves.  I have never grown one of these though I am told they do really well here in the PNW.

 Azara microphylla I believe.  This was a stunner!

Here's where I started to lose it.  I even had dreams about this plant.

aloe striatula

opuntias, yuccas and agaves... I think the owners of Phoenix Perennials are my people

oh but it gets even better...  dasylirion Wheeleri, yucca rigida, and dasylirion longissimum.  I sense a desert bed overhaul in my near future.  I first have to tackle a jungle of ivy and blackberries.

I almost grabbed another aloe polyphylla - apparently squirrels don't only like to hurt my aloe aristatas.  I found one of my beautiful aloe polyphylla desiccated and torn into hundreds of pieces not too long ago when I came home from work.  It wasn't pretty.

More plants to temp me with with.  I have long been an avid fan of eucalyptus trees and Phoenix Perennials has one of the best selections of these beauties around.

But more than anything, I lusted after this planter.  I know just where this belongs... with ME!

I actually felt like my head was spinning after a while.

And my head is still spinning looking back on these pictures.  I don't even know if I can say it, well type it (which theoretically should be easier) ... I didn't buy anything! WHAT?! I know, I don't know what happened. I was so very much overwhelmed.

Don't worry... I'm going back.  But first off I will tackle some ivy and work on the new planting space.