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Love what you did with your yard. Thanks for the visit.
Stush

Lovely garden. Makes my 6' x 15' balcony look kind of sad!

Thanks Stush, I still haven't been able to complete all of my projects. Which is why portions of the gardens are not photographed. Maybe before first frost.

Thanks jenufa, my patio is so over filled with plants that no one can use it. So I understand completely.

Chad,

Our front room (the salon, as I like to call it) is being taken over by the plants I'm bringing in, a little late this year. Great looking plants you have there and TFS and welcome back.

Great show Chad and great to hear from you. I had a lot of winter death last year too. I have a few still in pots waiting for the next deluge. I have moved them under cover for the fall rains. Maybe that will help. Some of my montanas actually survived after bad athracnose infections. What is your medium that you have them planted in?

The patio was only the beginning. Then I had to buy 6 spice racks. And now plants are spilling out into the grass. Maybe I should stop buying agaves but I cant. Just bought an agave pelona from Jeremy, cant wait to add that one with my albopilosas.

Mara, I try and use everything. I have Utahnesis in 75% dg and they still cant handle my humidity. I have lost a parasana fireball and ovatifolia giant form this summer due to humidity. I have started using garden soil with gravel to see if that works better since I have no problems with plants PIG. Every one seems to be different, so I am trying to determine which will grow here. Neomexicanas are out but parryi love it ( go figure ). Have several about 12" ready to PIG next yr.

I put pumice into the dg and limestone chunks in the grit. I have in under a porch roof getting wind driven rain and morning sun. I have sprayed it but not really watered it all summer and this is TEXAS. It lives. I have killed 5 before this. This is not in the ground and in a pot. It has not grown much. But no athracnose to be seen. I allow it NO winter water. I think it get like 2-5" of rain where it lives in nature. I swear this is the last A. utahensis eborespina that I buy. NO MORE after this, so it better make it. I get the message.