Just went out and smelled a plantaginea flower. Might have to cut this scape and bring it inside. I planted this right outside my bedroom window, but it's still too hot to open up the house. Guess I didn't think that one through... It does make me glad that plantaginea is such a good grower! I've got propagation on the brain.

It could be x Gasteraloe "Flow"

My dog and I are puzzled by this big pile of scat we found by the pool this morning and wonder if anyone can help ID it. It is too big a pile and the pieces too large to have come from a tree rat or bunny or other typical yard critters, doesn't look like coyote or raccoon scat (we do have those in the yard once in a while). It was full of what looks like those little nuts found on some palm trees, with some poo material binding it together. Googled it and some links show that it resembles deer scat, but we don't have deer here. I wondered if one of the hawks or crows might have dumped it, but it's too large plus all in a nice pile like something squatted to deposit it. I'm in Los Angeles in the SW part of the San Fernando Valley, up a hill with a nice amount of greenbelt surrounding us but we are in a suburban neighborhood with houses all around, no direct link to the area's wildlife corridors so a bobcat or such seems unlikely, have never seen one of those around here. The pool area is fenced so whatever it was would have had to hop over the fence. Any ideas? I'll try to post photos. Thanks! http://s1125.photobucket.com/user/SBMW/media/Image%201_zpswurr5tr3.jpg.html http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l596/SBMW/Image%202_zpsweaezola.jpg http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l596/SBMW/Image_zpsd7mhv6og.jpg

I can't ID any of them, sorry, but I can tell you those last cacti are planted wayyyyy to deeply inside those pots! Cacti prefer full sun, those poor things can't even see the light they're so low down. The soil needs to be around 1cm below the rim, always. Gill