I'm excited to start some passion flower vines (passiflora edulis, "Fredericks") and finally bought seeds which are winter hardy enough to handle the frosts here and also grow the fruit I like most, with occasional die-back. I'm planning to trellis a fence with the vines, for fruit. I believe they are basically a perennial here, but the frost is right on the edge for them. At any rate, I can start them any time. I know they can take a while to germinate and grow before taking off. I'm in the California Bay Area, towards Wine Country. Popular out here but everyone I know buys from the nursery, which I didn't because they didn't have the cultivar I wanted. Should I start the seeds now and plant out in a few months near to our first frost, or should I wait until Spring? I can start in pots, but really only outside because my house has no light inside, if that matters! I generally try planting almost everything when small because of this, and also my yard is not very big.

@l pinkmountain, I feel you! Your rock mulch and plastic! My property is similar, 1/3 acre of mature trees and the bare ground covered with layers of rock and plastic since 1962. The prior owner (the only other owner besides me) dealt with weeds growing in the rocks by dumping MORE rocks. As I'm removing it, slowly, I'm discovering original flagstone stepping stones covered up by 6 inches of rock, and the flagstone itself is in the original rock, which was just gravel and would have been so much better to deal with than the heavier river stones. The prior owner loved roses, and grew them by digging many very deep holes for big plastic buckets that stuck out of the ground a bit. I am trying to remove them, it is not the look I want, but they just break off in bits so I think I'm going to have to dig up the whole area to get them out. The property was an estate sale so it came "as is" and most of the roses had been dead for awhile but the buckets remain. It's all so much work! At the moment, where I want to put a rose, I scrape away the rocks and make a raised bed, the bottom, in contact with the native soil, lined with wood chips. Right now I'm using what I have. I just today made a raised bed for a miniature rose (Bees Knees) with logs from a tree I removed. Eventually I will replace the logs with nice larger desert rocks. I am planting many native perennials and cactus and yuccas, these do go into the native soil, and I buy small plants so I don't have to injure the extensive tree roots with a big hole. My goal is a desert cottage garden, where there is little need for mulch because native plants cover and shade the ground. And I'm finding I can use some of the rocks as paths. I also just remove the rock and plastic little by little, and any place I do, I mulch heavily with wood chips that I keep damp. This starts to improve the dead soil almost immediately! I do have a lot of pots, although this year I transitioned some of them to a raised bed (new retaining wall). My "secret sauce" to pots is to use the root pouch bags. Sometimes just alone but most of the time, I put the bag inside a pot as a liner. Sometimes if the pot is deep I cut out the bottom of the root pouch bag. I buy them from Greenhousemegastore. The roses don't ever get root bound and their roots stay an even temperature. I had a Julie Child rose in a pot for 4 years, which I just transplanted to the retaining wall, and the root system was amazing, and transplanted incredible easy without breaking a single root, because of how the plant grows in the bag. What I love about the bags is that it also can give you a temporary raised bed! Even just sitting on your rock mulch. But If you scrape away a bag-size area of the rock and plastic, put some organic matter on the soil, and then a bag, with the bottom cut out or intact, depending on your goals, you will already be nurturing soil life with the watering and nutrients that you provide the rose. You can disguise the bag with stacked rocks if you have them, or if you're like me and want something temporary and cheap, just cut bamboo fencing to the right height and cover it. I'm sure there's lots of ways to disguise it. But it will let you easily, temporarily, or somewhat permanently, enjoy a rose even while your property floor is so imperfect per your aesthetic and dreams.. If not roses now, then when?! :D

That's unfortunate. I'm sure you can sell it on FB Marketplace quite easily when you're ready. I have ruggables in my kitchen and my foyer, and I love them. The rest of my house I have genuine antique wool rugs, but in high traffic areas I want washable. There should be little triangles where you can tuck the pad corners into the rug, so I don't have any problem with it rolling up. Mine lay perfectly, and I love them because they're so easy to vacuum and even sweep with a broom. I will agree though that they don't give enough close-up pictures so it's really hard to see the whole pattern and colors. Luckily I was happy with mine when they arrived, but they definitely need more pictures.

Thank you all! this was very helpful as I couldn't find any pictures of this kind of damage anywhere to compare. I was hoping it was just sun damage and I could use it to propagate healthier plants as I've always wanted one of these. The other plant is a purple oxalis and I'll definitely have them in separate pots if the oxalis can be saved too. I think the poor plant was just sitting outside in a porch and no one cared for it ever. It's now indoors waiting for me to have time to take it apart and start anew - I didn't want to propagate any diseases :) And yes, I do agree Sansevieria cylindrica is a better name for it!