Thank you, thank you all. It seems others have been thinking along my line of thought too and I'm happy to hear some of you are breaking all the rules with success. I should have also mentioned all the dead foliage at my parents garden is still in place, so I won't have any problems locating what I want to locate. I made some pretty good mental notes earlier in the season too. I've kind of given up on the idea of planting most spring bulbs amongst my other perennials. It just gets too difficult when I want to move something and end up digging up bulbs in the process of moving something else. Since I move things around a lot, I've had this problem often. Bulbs that are planted very deep aren't as big a problem, but those little ones just a few inches below the surface are. That's the reason I'm kind of excited about having this area I can devote to spring bulbs. The hedge in the rear of this area will eventually fill in all the bare spots, but that's going to take a few years. In the meantime I have a blank slate to work with. Kevin

It's a rhipsalis, when I get home I'll see if I can find the name of this one. Angel exotics delivers them to Walmart so you can also check their website for the name. This one is a heavy bloomer for me in the spring and currently still has a lot of tiny fruits on it. I'm addicted to rhips. Morning sun is OK but protect from the mid-day afternoon sun. Keep on the dry side. Propogate from cuttings or seeds. You can divide this one up if you want, AE sticks a bunch of cuttings in one pot to make them full. Mine have a SE position in the yard with shade in mid-day, they will grow in more sun but seem happier with a little shade. They grow along with my hoyas. Tally Ho!

I use Rootone with fungicide. Wet the bottom of the broken limb and dip it in the rooting hormone. Cut off all the leaves, leaving only the "claws" at the tip. I would cut off the inflo as well to let the plant put its energy into rooting instead of blooming, but others disagree. I differ from the plumeria101 site in that I put the plant in a minimum of potting mix, about an inch or so on the bottom of the pot and another inch or so more after putting the cutting into the pot. I also put multiple cuttings in a single pot with this method, and let them develop roots before putting them into their own pot. They need plenty of bottom heat. You can put the pot on concrete or rocks in the sun or use a heat mat. You can tell they have developed roots when they have three or four real leaves. Mike

Thanks for the input about the String of Pearls, I've never had any. Leave the Kalanchoe out on top of your DRY mix. It will grow new roots and a new plant. The old leaves will dry up and die; the new ones will root and grow. Let the jade dry up a little and get as much of the old dirt off as you can before re-planting. Not sure what you mean by "washing" but I wouldn't add any additional water to the roots before then. Succulents cannot tolerate too much water, that's the reason you are having to re-pot in the first place. Let them stay dry, resist the urge to water them and let them do their thing. In the summer it is acceptable to water once a week if they are outside getting plenty of sun.