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Wacky results are probable when an Italian-American actor/art model and a free-spirited dancer and choreographer get together to create.

David Mingrino and Tam Warner, my neighbors here in Van Nuys, are now selling Succulent Citi, every Sunday, at the Encino Farmer’s Market on Victory near White Oak.

Thrifty, innovative, artistic, practical and eccentric, the plants are put into a variety of old pots, mustard jars, and vintage pottery.

Succulents are about the most durable plants one can sustain in the San Fernando Valley and unlike flowers, they never seem to die.