April 2015 what looks good/bad/awful in your garden?
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Comments (45)Hi all, sorry for the late reply, I was away in Santa Fe, NM for a week. Love that town! Great new pics and updates, thanks so much for sharing them all. I too am amazed that you keep that jade happy outside! I have to keep them cowering indoors in summer, LOL. Neat caper pic, Jon, what conditions do you give it and how long have you had it outside? I only recently saw them in a greenhouse a few weeks ago at the terrific Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. Neat! Awesome cacti pics too, Mike. You're obviously doing something right. Awesome pics and great blooms. Love love love! Mswillis, your veggie garden looks so happy and productive. I'm envious! Thanks for posting it and keep us updated! Not fancy, but here's my own-root variegated, contorted Euphorbia lactea outside on the patio, in a "wash pot" or "bean pot". I've become addicted to these pots as they're really hard to tip over. Happy gardening all! Grant...See MoreJanuary 2015 what looks good/bad/awful in your garden?
Comments (23)Neat pics and updates, buggy! They definitely show how important and impactful different microclimates are for our plants! I have some bougies that had branches having over the patio that are fine, but the branches hanging out over open ground got zorched by the chill. Some of my blooming mother of thousands Bryophyllums (formerly kalanchoe) melted and some look perfect, all depending on location. The results are amazing. Yeah the Lachenalia blooms really DO look like aloe blooms don't they? There's even a species L. aloides that is even more aloe-looking. Great easy bulbs here though for sure. My geraniums (Pelargonium) plants all did fine, here's that pot pinky purple in the day of the dead talavera pot on the patio. It had petunias in it, and they survived the frost too, but they were getting leggy so OUT they went, hah! Speaking of bryophyllum, here are some that didn't melt, happily blooming away among some Opuntia quimilo cacti. Some clones of this Bryophyllum just three feet away were liquified by Jack Frost. Orange emu bush, Eremophila carnosa looks great too. Definitely my favorite emu bush: Here's just a random corner of the garden, looking WSW. No damage from the recent chill that I I can see. It drives me insane each winter, LOL, by the way, that a purple hop seed was mixed in with the green hop seed when I planted that hedge, hah. In summer they're all green, but in winter the purple one shows its true colors, literally, LOL! I'll keep it of course. Happy gardening all, keep the updates coming, pics or no. Take care, Grant...See MoreFebruary 2015 what looks good/bad/awful in your garden?
Comments (18)To answer Grant, ASUdevil & Waterbug; the plants you see growing on the fence (The fire stick) were all simply branching parts of a much larger plant from another property we have that were trimmed off (I wanted to get some of it for this purpose as we had sold the other property) for the exact reason of covering the less sightly chain link fence. You can VERY easily propagate these plants (and pencil cactus too) I simply let them "callous" over for about 1 1/2 days (some of the stems that we cut were over an inch across and took a little longer to dry out) to avoid rot - then I just stick them in the moist soil and they root! Mine that I've grown in my own yard here in CenPhx do NOT turn as red as my yard just seems to provide too much of a micro climate so they are mostly green most of the year. . . Couldn't be easier and I've NEVER had ANY summer damage from heat or direct sun - you can leave them unwatered until they start to "wrinkle" in the stems and they will literally bounce back. Only problem I've ever had is from frost . . ....See MoreMay 2015 what looks good/bad/awful in your garden?
Comments (27)Awesome pic of a great looking plant, Harold, thanks for posting it. I'm so thrilled it's doing well for you for so long! I gave one to a former coworker and she's going to give me a baby so I think I'm set. THANK YOU for the wonderful offer though, I doubt any of mine will ever look as great as yours, thanks for posting it! :) As far as garden updates go, here are a few quick-pics. Matucana madisoniorum blooming again. They really DO flower off an on all spring/summer/autumn. If you like cacti flowers, GET SOME. AZ Cactus Sales down in Chandler usually carries them (call first, LOL). This virtually-spineless (bred as cattle feed for arid regions) Opuntia canacapa 'Ellisiana' is making a ton of flowers and buds. So pretty even before they open for the day: Parent/baby of one of my favorite scented "geraniums", Pelargonium 'French Lace'. I rooted the baby directly in soil and just repotted it into the colorful talavera pot. Wilson the tennis ball to show size. Happy gardening all! Grant...See Moregrant_in_arizona
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