I finally repotted my Jade plants, and I'd love to see yours, too.
I bought both of my Jades back at the beginning of the year, but never got around to repotting them until now. Of course, I had to wait until the hottest time of the year before finally getting around to it. Darn procrastinator-itis...
The only two varieties that I currently own are 'Hummel's Sunset,' & 'Lemon ‘n Lime.' When I cleaned off all of the old potting mix, I split the 'Hummel's Sunset' into two equal halves and potted them up into the two green glazed pots. As for my 'Lemon ‘n Lime,' it all went into the blue glazed pot. I'm not sure why I didn't ever get around to doing this much sooner, because I love the way they turned out. I had some ordinary green Jades, but I gave them away to my sister, so that she could practice fine-tuning her green thumb, HaHa.
I did a search on here for other people's Jades, but most of the threads are old and the photos no longer show up in them. So I just thought that I would extend an invitation to anybody else that would like to share theirs. :)
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niksouthafrica
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoWarning: I live where these plants originate so some of my plants are large because they grow outdoors and some of them are very old. Not trying to rain on your parade or anything ;)
This one is about 1.4 m tall. It is completely neglected and never watered and at least 10 years old. It lives under a pine tree, hence the tassles
Some others with flowes:
Hummel's Sunset in a pot
Silver undulata
Small green undulata (recovering from a recent hail storm)
Gollum. Used to be much bigger until the cats broke it into pieces while fighting
rina_Ontario,Canada 5a
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Comments (13)Tips on setting up a swap if you don't have any in your area already. 1. Pick a date/time and a place. (find a partner or 2 to help you) The date: Your date should be sometime around the average last frost or later and not on a holiday weekend. This gives people time to do the spring bed clean up, and divide perennials that need dividing and pull out extras of what ever they want to pass on, and also get them potted up and labeled. When people take home starts of divided plants they'll want to get them in the ground as soon as they can and give them the best shot at getting established with the least amount of stress possible. The time: Some swaps start at 9am... some later. Its up to you. Try to gage travel time and set up time. Most of the swaps around here are on Saturday to give people time to get things planted on Sunday. But lots of people can't come due to work or children's sports activities. Carrie and I tried Sunday afternoons and it works out just fine. 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6 years ago
greenclaws UK, Zone 8a
6 years agoOk, here's my contribution. Been trying to downsize my plant collection and sold a few. I've whittled the keepers down to two of each, but just realised some have 4! Whether I can narrow them down to one of each, I'm not sure....doubt it!
1. Regular jades, bought back from Spain as small cuttings that were pale and yellow....now they look just the same as my other two regulars!
2.Red Horn Tree, lacking their colours
3.Gollums
4.Hobbits
5. Cr. ovata variegata
6.Hummel's Ghost, small plant was removed from the scar on the larger one
7. Two further cutting grown plants taken from the larger Ghost above, these have none of the striped/reds/greens like the mother plant does
8. Curly Bluebird
9. Crosby's Compact
10. Hummel's Sunsets looking rather plain at this time of the year....
need to do another post for the rest....Gill
marguerite_gw Zone 9a
6 years agogreenclaws UK, Zone 8a
6 years agoAlmost done.....
11. Large Leaved Blue....has it got a proper name?
12 Two more Hobbits I forgot to take with me when I went to the car boot sale and offloaded my threes and fours...
13. One if my two oldest and largest Jades, they're 18 years old.
14. It's sibling...
Think that's all of them, unless there's some more I've missed....how do I downsize this lot?
Gill
greenclaws UK, Zone 8a
6 years agoPhoto Synthesis
6 years agomarguerite_gw Zone 9a
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6 years agooldstumpy1 Long Island ny
6 years agogreenclaws UK, Zone 8a
6 years ago
socks
6 years agoThis one gets heavy branches which pull the whole bush over. That's why it has a rock to keep it from leaning over. It could be getting too much water but it's not rotting
This one sits on the front porch and gets morning sun only. It could take more sun but seems happy enough where it is.
Not a very good picture, sun is too bright. I'm thinking of putting this one in a pot. It's just going to get too big where it is
I like the fullness of these.
I enjoyed seeing everyone else's pictures. The plants in pots look so nice.greenclaws UK, Zone 8a
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6 years ago
Jenna (Massachusetts 6a)