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Another ceropegia fanatic joining the ranks...
Comments (19)I had a brief affair with ceropegias in the 70's! It lasted a few years. I had some greenhouse space, provided by my university, where I had these plants along with much of my other collection. There wasn't that much available then, but somehow I built up a nice collection of a dozen or more. Today, from those years, I only have a few sp. including my woodii, which I've had all these years, along with a green leafed species like woodii, which was called carnosum (circa 1973), but from Sage's site, I think was/is mislabeled. Oh, and another from those days, still with me--smithii. I do hold onto plants. But, my favorite one is sandersonii. All it takes is one open flower to make this plant fantastic. For much of the summer it has flowers on it. When I got it, I was given a length of bare leafless stem--that is all this plant usually has (only the occasional leaf on a young new growth). I had no idea what to do with it, and I didn't have much faith that I would root it, since I have so many plants, they don't all get exacting care! So, I laid out the foot plus stem around and around in a pot of pumice and covered slightly. It rooted and grew, long after I had forgotten all about it. When I discovered it again, I didn't know what it was for a minute--this green cord running around other plants on the bench. I potted it up in a mix with a high pumice content. Now, I have it on its own little 30" tall trellis in a six inch pot. Be forwarned Argus. There is one problem with collecting ceropegias! They are twining vines. And, when they twine they don't follow instuctions. Invariably they hunt for the most annoying place to wrap and twine themselves. If you are not aware and not on top of things they will all twine together into the mother of all gordian knots. Then you will spend the next five years trying to untwine them (you thought the rubix cube was difficult....). A small trellis for each plant probably is the best solution. I forget how Sage handled this. The trellis needs to be anchored in the pot so you can move your plants around. You will find that some species are hardy in S. Cal. while others are too tropical--so read up. I grow mine indoors for the most part--in a greenhouse. Finding a small in-pot trellis is not easy. You might need to make your own, using redwood, or bamboo. Make them tall and narrow, since the vines only want to go upwards. Another solution that is very simple is to take a length of thick wire and make a hoop, then train the vines to grow around and around the hoop, with both ends anchored in the pot. But, you will need to be always winding the new fast growing stems, or they will soon find other places to twine. When I had my plants all those years ago, I had youthful hopes of hybridizing them. But, those flowers are really hard to figure out. Figuring out how to make a seed pod was too much for me then. Perhaps this is why there are so few ceropegia hybrids. One other thing--getting these plants at this time of year is good but don't expect much until next spring. For now you will be served well if they root out and establish in their pots before going fully dormant. If indoors they will grow a bit during winter, but outside I would expect them to shut down. At least up here in the SF Bay Area, they would go dormant. I would worry a little about keeping the tropical ones outside. Not growing in your climate I don't know how they will handle the cool nights and rain. They may rot. Good luck. Jon...See MoreMy fauteuil/bergere chairs I ordered on eBay arrived broken
Comments (54)Just wanted to add that where I suspect there was a scam (in fact I might even call it fraud) is in regard to Greyhound and insurance. He insurred each chair for $300 and from the sound of it, was assuming I'd make a claim through Greyhound and get reimbursed for the cost of the chair plus have one functional chair. He did not bet on my taking it to a antique furniture restoration store (which I might not have except that I needed to get my dining room chair fixed) and that person telling me that he saw these types of things all the time in insurance claims and said and put in writing that it was clearly not shipping related damage. When I spoke to Paypal they said this is the type of information they look for when handling a dispute. Now my other issue is if I send it back do I insure it (it's my understanding that Greyhound will insure for $300 for no additional cost). There is a page where the cost of the item is declared. For the damaged chair, I want to declare a cost of $0 since I want to prevent him from filing a Greyhound claim on return. FOr the other chair DH and I were discussing 1/2 the cost I paid--about $100....See MoreDidn't expect to feel this way ...
Comments (22)I won't know what to do with my free time once I get done. This house is a big 'ol giant DIY project that we are in to for around 5 years. We have done all the work from designing the house and drawing the plan, digging the footers by hand, laying the block foundation ourselves, framing, wiring, plumbing, tile work, just laid all the hardwood over the past two weekends. But now we are nearing the end.....finally!! We are installing the cabinets this weekend, with the assistance of our cabinet builder. I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. Every day that passes, this house is beginning to look more like a home and less like a construction site. We will probably move in around christmas this year. And then we will start finishing the sunroom and master bedroom. And THEN I will be done....no more house building for me!! My kind and loving daughter was so concerned that I would get bored with all this free time on my hands she offered to let me build her a new house too. Wasn't that sweet of her?? lol!! I told her no thank you...I have plenty of gardening projects waiting for me. I will miss all the planning and decision making, but it will be nice to relax on the weekends for once in a long, long time....See Moreneed some urgent advice on window seat vs. bay window
Comments (25)Sophie - I disagree. I did not design this. I have no pretensions to being a designer and for many other aspects of the renovation we have indeed had formal plans drawn up. [I also know from experience that having an architect involved is far from a panacea .... but that's another story or stories]. For this room we knew we needed to replace the large leaky picture window and instead of replacing in kind we asked whether it would be possible and reasonable to build a window seat and what would be involved. We showed the contractor many pictures of window seats and shared the required dimension ranges (not exact dimensions) from various articles. He said a bay window would take care of it and no separate plans were required. I include the manufacturer's literature excerpt that says their Bay and Bow windows can be used as window seats. It seemed (and actually still seems) a reasonable solution. Projection Window Bay and Bow windows are like a piece of fine furniture for the façade of your home. These unique windows project from your home, creating additional space that can be used for a variety of purposes, such as a window seat or displaying meaningful trinkets. Our vinyl windows (typically double-hung or casement windows) are inserted into a solid frame to create this unique look that adds style to any home. Bay windows typically have three lites (one central fixed lite and two flanking operational lites) at 20-25-degree angles. Bow windows most commonly consist of four lites, all of which can be fixed or operational, set at 10-15 degree angles. The contractor asked us to describe what we wanted to the window vendor as well and we did. We never used the term bay window. We only talked in terms of window seat. The window vendor also did not dissuade us or suggest we needed an addition instead of a window. The window vendor spec'd the window we needed. Given that we have 8 foot ceilings - this would have been a really good place to catch that a 52" bay window wouldn't be long enough to provide a seat at a reasonable height off the floor. I think that's the key flaw here - plus someone's telling us that (unless I'm wrong) we weren't going to get the wood backing. Tomorrow should be interesting ......See Morelolauren
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