Hey! Thanks Jessica. They are planted in the 1.1.1 mix as well as my jades. I love that mix because it outlasts the 5.1.1. mix. Oh, if you pot up your jade into the 1.1.1 mix, believe me when I tell you it will take off on you:-) Thank you for your kind words. Josh! I LOVE your plants. I see how happy they are frolicking in the nice windows you have. Look at what you have done with the CC. I can't believe that it is even flowering again! Bravo. Nice colors. I love that Pichira too. I almost picked one up today. What are the little guys growing next to your CC on the top pic? Cute! I see where you are keeping some of the jades too:-) Nancy! I love those orange flowers too. Did you notice the Hoya flower? That has grown off the Hoya I saved a few months ago! I keep telling them to behave, or I will have to send them the the plant masters for training. They have been good since then. Jodik! Thank you, thank you:-) No worries. I can't wait to see what's up your sleeve..lol I can tell you this. Every time I look at my Clivia flowers, I think of you. I know how much you love flowers like that and they remind me of Ameryllis. God, I can never remember how to spell that name.. Mike

Josh, they sure are pal:-) I knew you would recognize them and I am so grateful for them. I will take a recent pic of them and of others real soon. Thank you again ! Camera, you are welcome and thank you. Hellp Pug! How's yours looking these days?:-) Danielle...Thank you. Keep them growing. Rob, thank you and I hope you are well these days. The plant you sent me is doing great! Had to bring them in again last night. I got an unexpected 32 degree reading this a.m and boy am I grateful it didn't kill them! Mike

Hi, yes also with the japanese names it is quite confusing and besides the fact that we don't perfectly understand their names, even in Japan they are often used synonymious for different cultivars. As Oksana correctly have noted Kagetsu means Moon Flower. However, this is also the general word for a jade tree in Japanese ... so, jade tree = Kagetsu To specify the particular cultivar there is always a second or third word added ... Kagetsu Nishiki = Moon Flower Variegated (normaly this is Tricolor) Ougon Kagetsu = Golden Moon Flower (Hummels Sunset) Hime Ougon Kagetsu = Princess Golden Moon Flower (Small Leaf Hummels Sunset) Hime Kagetsu = Princess Moon Flower (Small leaf Jade = Crosbys Compact) Shin Kagetsu Nishiki = New Moon Flower Variegated (this is actually a synomym for Maruba and some others) Maruba Kagetsu = Round Leaf Moon Flower Maruba Nishiki = Round Leaf Variegated (actually the same as above) As Maruba is already established here and elsewere, I would argue to keep this name for the cultivar. Alternatively one could use ShinKagetsu as I did in the beginning or choose a completely new name. As far as I understood the japanese do not distinguish the simple Maruba (only light sensitive variegation) and the variegated Maruba (light sensitive variegation + green variegation that does not bleach) and use the same name for both. here some older pics of my plants ... common Maruba ... you can see that the whole leaf bleaches out and gets yellow (the middle alway bleaches last) variegated Maruba ... you can see that some parts of the leaf stay green and don't bleach out even though one cannot see a difference when the leaves are not bleached (the green state) in my opinion the difference in the bleached state is big enough to consider both as distinct cultivars. This is also corroborated by Mikes pictures ... maybe he could make another side-by-side view of his two plants for better comparison. Ben

I thought that your photo looked very "California" but knew you weren't in my zone because all days are above 40 here. We usually get a few frosty nights, but no indication of that yet. I'll cover with a sheet if I get worried. We sure had a lovely rain, and I left all the plants out since they were dry and haven't had a bit of water except tap water in 10 months. I also collected a couple buckets of rain water. Precious stuff!