Geoff Stein goes by the name palmbob on the website “Dave’s Garden” where he has made massive contributions to the content.
Through the years he has written some amazing articles that are informative yet easily understood.
His main passion is obviously palms and cycads but he also grows and writes about cacti and succulents.
Below are links to some of the succulent articles he has written.
- Agave 101, Part B: Selected Large Species
- Agaves 102- the small, compact species
- Almost Yuccas- the Hesperaloes and Hesperoyucca
- Aloe mite: The hidden scourge of the Mediterranean succulent garden
- Aloe vera- Magic, Mystery and Myth
- An introduction to Aloe Flowers, part 1 of 5: Aloes A-C
- An introduction to Aloe Flowers, part 2 of 5: Aloes D-L
- An introduction to Aloe Flowers, part 3 of 5: Aloes M-R
- An introduction to Aloe Flowers, part 4 of 5: Aloes S-Z
- Blue Cacti for Landscaping
- Botanical Gardens of Note: Introduction to Lotusland, Santa Barbara, California
- Brachychitons, the Australian Bottle Trees
- Building Raised Planters for Succulents, Cacti and Other Exotics
- Cactus Flowers: The OTHER reason to grow cacti
- Cheap and Easy Succulents: Personal Recommendations
- Christmas Cacti Care
- Cold Hardy Euphorbias- the small globoid to columnar species
- Community Succulent Pots: Some Ideas
- Cristate and Monster Succulents
- Dracaenas- the Dragons and the Corn
- Dudleyas: California’s Native Succulent Gems
- Easy Succulents: Bowiea volubilis, the Climbing Onion
- Easy Succulents: Graptoveria ‘Fred Ives’
- Easy Succulents- the Jade Plants
- Euphorbia “Flowers,” an introduction to the amazing Cyathia
- Euphorbias for landscaping – the cold-hardy columnar, tree species
- Flea Markets as a Source for Plants and Garden Supplies
- Graptopetalums, Pachyphytums and their hybrids: Echeveria look-alikes
- Growing Aloes from Seed
- Hardy Mammillaria for pots and the landscape
- Haworthias- the Jewels of the Succulent World
- How Toxic are Euphorbias, Really?
- Introduction of Sansevierias, One of the Premiere Houseplants Available
- Introduction to Aeoniums
- Introduction to Agaves
- Introduction to Aloe Hybrids
- Introduction to Aloes
- Introduction to Caudiciform Plants, Also Known as Fat Plants
- Introduction to Dasylirions (Sotols)
- Introduction to Dyckias and Hechtias
- Introduction to Echeverias- my personal experiences in Southern California
- Introduction to Gasterias, Common and Easy Succulents for the Garden and Pottery
- Introduction to Jatrophas
- Introduction to Kalanchoes
- Introduction to Opuntias: THE Signature Cactus Genus
- Introduction to Puyas, terrestrial bromeliads with spectacular flowers
- Introduction to spotted aloes
- Introduction to Staging Succulents and Cacti
- Introduction to Succulent Senecios
- Introduction to the Furcraeas, the giant Agave Look-alikes
- Introduction to the Medusoid Euphorbias
- Introduction to Tree Aloes, part 1: the solitary, unbranched species
- Introduction to Tree Aloes, part 2: the branching tree aloes
- Introduction to Yuccas
- Invasive Succulents in My Yard
- Investment Planting the Exotic Way
- Looking for Light- Lessons from a Crowded Yard
- Mail ordering succulents and cacti: my experiences
- Monocarpism in question
- Monocots versus Dicots- what’s the big deal?
- Moving Cacti (some tips and suggestions)
- My Toxic, Painful Garden Revisited: pruning considerations
- Oxalis- the most evil weed of succulent and cactus cultivation
- Pachypodiums- THE caudiciform collectors plant- Introduction to the species and cultivational suggestions
- Pencil “Cacti” – The Stick Euphorbias
- Poinsettias- their initial care, and year after year
- Pony Tail Palms: An Introduction to Beaucarneas
- Pot Ideas for Succulent plants
- Quail Botanical Gardens
- Sedums for warm, arid climates
- Selected Weird Succulents- Xerosicyos danguyi
- Sherman Gardens, a little known botanical gem in Southern California
- So that’s NOT a Cactus??!
- Stressed Out Succulents – Good or Bad?
- That’s a Cactus??
- The best trees for a cactus and succulent garden
- The flowering succulents of late spring early summer
- The Huntington Botanical Gardens
- The Joshua Tree
- The Magical Properties of Rainwater
- The Stacked Crassulas- Introduction to these ornamental succulents
- Trailing Succulents for Pots: Some ideas
- Variegated Succulents- the Agaves and their relatives
- What’s Eating Me? Clues to Bug Destruction from a Tropical/Succulent Point of View