Don't worry! Three of your four photos appear to show simple mechanical damage. It is common for succulents to have some breakage when they are on display as people pick over them; you may not notice it until you bring them home and it begins to scar over, but it is not going to kill the plant. As it grows, the damaged leaves will eventually be shed. Your cutting is very small, I don't know that it had a great chance of surviving to begin with. Did you water it? What kind of light was it getting? Also, your soil looks very dense. There's a lot you can do with potting mixes for succulents, but I would start with adding perlite or pumice to your soil in a 50/50 ratio.

i dont think GW can delete your PB pix??? planting seems late.. but you are z4 ... presuming you have a base knowledge level.. and have had much success otherwise ... so i dont know why these particular failures [though i had the same as the learning curve got better.. and frankly.. still do] then shouldnt we look to the source of your larger specimens??? field grown... local.. mail order shipping to local nursery ... etc.. etc ... being 'evergreen' .. i swear i could .. in a normal year.. have a dead pine right now.. and it may not brown until winter desiccates it.. in early spring ... the point being.. when you said: koreana Aurea, received it at the end of may and it soon started to loose its needles i dont understand what you could have done.. in a few weeks .. to make it shed needles ... it was probably dead .. when you got it???? always look to blame someone else.. it will make you feel better.. lol ... ken

Thanks Sierra & Toots... yes it is love-in-a-mist, and the white flower is Cilantro. That reminds me, the cilantro is done blooming now, I'd better yank it out... it's seedy! I liked the first one, the inside of a hollyhock, it looks like it's made out of plastic.

You asked for advice, so I am going to tell you that your responses to your neighbor have been aggressive and provocative. Your reactions to the neighbor have added to the conflict. Your goal should instead be to give neutral or calming responses. Snookums2 gave you examples of these. Nan-E-Fan gave you away of thinking of the situation that protects you from thinking that by changing your responses to this family you are "wimping out" or acting like you are weak. By keeping calm and responding to exactly what is said, you keep control of the situation. The woman says, "my husband says he saw you letting your dog pee on our lawn." You say, "I don't let my dog pee on the individual lawns, he only goes on the common area." If the neighbor does not know where the common area is, this gives them the opportunity to ask, "where is this common area?" If the neighbor, instead, insists that you do let your dog pee on her lawn, you ask her to take a picture of it. If she says that she has no camera, remind them of their cell phones or tell her to get a cheep disposable. Or offer to pay half for a disposable. This shows that you are concerned for their issue (you don't really have to be concerned, but acting like you are keeps the peace). By remaining calm, you keep the power in the relationship. If they start getting accusatory toward you, or start complaining to the townhouse management, you can calmly say, "I told them that I only use the common area and asked them to photograph the dog using their lawn as a toilet. I even offered to share the cost of a disposable camera. They never did anything to prove it was my dog, they just continue to harass me every time they see me outside." Or if you can remain calm when they harass you, then YOU can go to management and complain about their treatment of you. It takes practice to remain calm and to learn to respond only to the words people are saying to you. What you have been doing is responding to the emotion behind what the neighbor is saying and making assumptions about what she is staying. Your assumption has been, "This family has something against me and my family." By having this assumption in the background, based on your first few interactions with this family, you have been working from an assumption that you are at war because this other family has decided you are. Nothing could go right after this assumption was made. That is why I suggest that you concentrate only on the words that are said. It keeps you focused on your goal of remaining calm and responding to the situation and the concerns that the person is bringing up. It is too late for you to make this relationship start out right, but you can work on calming it down. That will give you practice for future relationships with other people. I had to do this when I found myself getting all upset talking with insurance companies and the like on the phone. After one set of phone calls when I got mad and frustrated and yelled at the person on the other end of the phone, my eyesight went all wonky. It was like looking through a kaleidoscope that was turning. I thought I was going blind! Through the little bits of clearness, I waited through my dial-up internet and slow page loads and figured out that I was having an ocular migraine. I did not need to go to the ER, but I should see an ophthalmologist soon. So I called my eye doc and they got me in the next day. What is one cause of an ocular migraine? Stress. What else does stress do? Cause high blood pressure and other heart disease, contribute toward diabetes and other diseases. Gotta lower stress!