The big haul ...
Spent a beautiful Sunday with my local garden club doing what we love most ... Procuring new plants.
Thorny things! Upper left 2 dogtails, lower left monkey tail, upper right euphorbia lactea cristata, center right Boobie cactus. Love those 2 big spined beasts at upper center. All the ball cactus bloom medium to huge! Can’t wait!!
Softer sucus! Crassulas and haworthias and sans, oh my!
4 orchids.
6 hoyas.
Huernia, orbeas, aptenia cordifolia. Not sure if that’s a bromeliad or air plant at bottom right
Euphorbia milii Crown of Thorns in peach, dusty rose, white, yellow.
Oh, my! Stromanthe, calathea, 2 aglaonemas, and a frilly peach amaryllis. Not sure what that is at lower right. It was supposed to be a Citronella but it has no aroma and looks like a Senecio.
Garden decor and a huge bromeliad.
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Comments (3)Good for you and congrats on excellent compost and fabulous leaf hauls. BTW I believe 'hummus' is a Middle Eastern bean dip, whereas compost is 'humus'. Their functions are not interchangeable. LOL...See MoreLotsa Hosta - Now the BIG haul!
Comments (14)Lint Catcher! Now that's a thought. Now I know spots in my yard that Deep Blue Sea probably better not go. I have a couple of messy trees, one of which is always dropping stuff in my birdbath. Thanks for posting the pic. That dark blue makes an awfully nice mix with the other colors :-) No, the mini's won't go in a trough. I've already got a mini-bed part way planned. Right now, so many of my minis just aren't displayed to best advantage, so I was already planning a mass move before I brought this batch home. I have this tree that kind of sits up on a hump. There's nothing around it at the moment, and it's a nuisance to mow around because of the unevenness, with the way the ground slopes down and all. I'm planning a very low cement retaining wall to match the one on the street side of the shade garden in front of my house, all planted with miniature to small size hostas and maybe a few other low growing plants, like the creeping jenny that we had such nice pics of in a post a week or so ago. I hadn't thought of it until just now, but it would make a gorgeous combo with low growing ruby toned sedum like that in my pics above. And maybe even a few small to mid-sized stones... a mix of some dark greyish stones (not sure what kind) and maybe some of that pinkish/purplish granite. You have just started a thought process that I think is going to transform that new mini-bed into something really special. Thank you :-) Hopefully, I'll get going on that in the next week or so, and will have pics to share soon!...See MoreSerenading Hitchhiker
Comments (10)Leaper We have an unused bedroom I call the pink room. There are some lights rigged up to supplement windows where young cuttings and seedlings are wintered after being taken off the prop mat. I have been toying with the idea of bringing in my large bananas and putting them in that room and letting the tree frog hang out in there. I've been reading up on them and might consider trying it. Seems they make a popular pet. I keep the door shut to keep the cats out. I'm not sure how I would respond to my wife's question about the bird chirping sounds though :-). randy...See Morefor you bargain shoppers, this is really funny
Comments (4)Too cute! I think we can all relate! Any excuse to help our "addiction". I was just thinking that I could clear the linens off one shelf in the linen closet so I could put "accessories" for the house in there! LOL Luvs...See More
Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
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Stush2049 Pitts. PA, zone 6
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Edithcolea grandisMaria Elena (Caribbean - USDA Zone 13a)
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I have a bunch of Aloes I want to gift out. too large for me to bring in and out every year. Cost of postage is outrageous even to send. But if you want them, there yours.
I could trim the leaves in half but the stock and growing point should pick up and in a year or so, would not even know. They were seed grown open pollinated noID.
This is how they look being in my cellar window all winter. Aloe striata. Cut most of the leaves off to reduce shipping cost.
Maria Elena (Caribbean - USDA Zone 13a) thanked Stush2049 Pitts. PA, zone 6Stush2049 Pitts. PA, zone 6
last yearMaria Elena (Caribbean - USDA Zone 13a) thanked Stush2049 Pitts. PA, zone 6Maria Elena (Caribbean - USDA Zone 13a)
last yearlast modified: last yearI agree ... USPS shipping costs have gotten outrageous. I am VERY interested in these [especially the 1st two] but am not a fan of the idea of cutting their gorgeous leaves. Can they be gathered and bound neatly for shipping or are they stiff?
Do you have Zelle set up? If so, please send me a private message with your number and final shipping cost.Stush2049 Pitts. PA, zone 6
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