I'll just put a cap on my truck with grow lights wired into it & be homeless, driving around w/all my plants in the back. Every morning I'll slide the back cab window open tell them all how much I love them. Don't worry, I'll tell them. Dont think of it as being homeless- think of it as going on an adventure! A safari on tour!! Yeah, that's it- I can pull off the side of the highway each day in a different place & charge admission for onlookers to view my "Wild & winderful world of tropicals & succulents!" Anyone wanna join me? We can quit our jobs, pool our resources, even sell props...& use the money for funding our next trip...and more plants...Wow- I think I have inhaled too much perlite dust & it's gone to my head.

LOL...

Nice plant, I didn't see one like that around. Looks like you have aloe village there :)

LOL is right!! Lol. You know, you could always drive the country and end up in Arizona or something like that. Make sure to bring a sleeping bag, canned food, bottled water, a shovel, and did I mention a table so you could unload your plants for the winter while you wait for the warm weather to come back. Start a Go Fund Me page just for gas and your a psychiatrist to get your sanity back. Ha

Oh. by the way, very nice. You are not alone here. I can send a spit ball to Lowe' s near my house and reach with no problem.lol I am also surrounded by so many greenhouses, that I can;t go in any direction without passing one. So I am not to far off from the poor wagon with you. Oh, I too have been sifting per lite these days. My crazy.

Ok, I am in the program because my wife sent me. It is no fun, day after day looking at the same plants, but it is cool seeing them bloom.

I am 2 miles from a HD and Lowes (both have gone down hill in recent history) and 10 miles from litterally a dozen nurseries, but nobody is carrying the small aloes I seek, or Adromischus. I have to count on one place, the Indoor Sun Shoppe, not great like it used to be, but it has plants I want, Adromischus, Pelargonium, Haworthia, Aloe, anything a collector would want. But you should have seen it twenty years ago. Enter the store, you were surronded by 1500 plants all succulent all raised by the grandaddy of Seattle succulents.

Myermike Yes! Pheonix AZ is gorgeous. The streets are lined with colorful, flowering succs, oleander shrubs, cacti & palms. the sunsets are amazing & painted, w/ the mountains & saguaros in the background & you can see all the stars. Would love to go back. See more "country". I was there during a sandstorm - when I looked out the window & saw this wall of brown coming at me I thought maybe it was the apocalypse!! That was scary!! It was 113F in May. I've been to Yuma in July - it was 120!! Now I like warm weather but lack of hmidity aside- that's just TOO hot! I want to go to the Pacific NW. Havent been there yet.

Rina my aloe village will have to expand it's Corp limits come spring, LOL. That pinto is a hog! Aloes have been the easiest for me to grow, so far. . Myermike - I saw a a giant blue tropical fern today, but sadly, no more room for big plants. Rob- your wife can come too. Maybe she will be the voice of reason & discipline that it seems *ahem* a few of us need- myself included!

Rob also that Sun shoppe sounds both fascinating AND financially dangerous! I have found a decent selection of small aloes at HD. Other day was an AJR (hybrid?) Brevifolia, green/gold gasteria, climbing aloe, aloe pink..something...not blush, hedgehog.. Of course I got my firebird, blizzard, pinto, oik, sleigh, blush & distans there. I have an HD card...big eye roll...

Socks - I thought that I was hitting that point- done- then I saw this ONE PLANT, LOL. I do agree that I also have a pretty good sampling from most geniuses in the succulent family. (Did I say that right? I forget my biology!). You are most def. still in the club! We need more "voices of reason" like yourself.