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Stush2049 Pitts. PA, zone 6

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New solar lights that look like flying saucers gift from new friend. Wife loves them.

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I seem to just kill my big ones. I have a hard time throwing out my trimmings too knowing how much I paid for the mother.I just gave a lot of 4" rooted aloes to a small nursery. I also germinated a hundred Golden leadball trees. I was expecting three to sprout and I read the directions differently with this years bunch of seeds and they ALL sprouted in 4 days. The ones last year took months and I got 2. They loved the little trees because they are the type that grow without added water here in Texas. I think they are from west Texas. They were headed for their pots , the last I saw them. They were not able to find one gallon trees of this sort so they were really happy.

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robinswfl
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LOVE love love your gardening, Stush! Beautiful plants, beautiful yard!
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Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
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Beautiful!
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tsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱
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Nice tour. Thanks.

tj
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Meyermike(Zone 6a Ma.)
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Wonderful yard Stush! Thanks for the stroll)))

Thank God for potted plants to add character.
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Stush2049 Pitts. PA, zone 6
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Walters Gardens in Michigan plants all there Agave and Mangave in the ground every year and then dig them all back up to put in the greenhouse. They have a crew of men and equipment to do that. I don't and getting old and worse every year. Pots are the only way to go. In the middle of re-potting a lot of my plants this year and with even bigger pots to move now. I think I am loosing my mind. Good thing I have miss dolly and mr. wagon to help me.
jstropic (10a)
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Beautiful garden Stush!!

Jody
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wantonamara Z8 CenTex
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So lush, so beautiful. . My Texas drought has burnt my eyeballs.

I know what you mean about the pots getting to big and too heavy. I have that problem. I solved it by moving them in for the winter and forgetting to move them back out, forgetting to water them during my building project. I killed my biggest and best aloes. Sad.
Stush2049 Pitts. PA, zone 6
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You would think succulents should be able to go long periods with out water. Mostly my Agave go most of winter with out water. I know it keeps getting harder ever year wintering over my collection.
wantonamara Z8 CenTex
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Not as long as I needed. then when I watered them all their roots had desicated and they formed rot. No plant lives of total neglect. I have fewer plants to move but I am a sck addicted person. They are being replaced by smaller baby succulents. .
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gardenfanatic2003
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Beautiful!!

Deanna
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wantonamara, what are you looking for right now. I have several different kind of plants that I have to thin out before winter haul in. Sanseveria, Aloes, Haworthia?

Any one else? Message me.
wantonamara Z8 CenTex
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I am looking for Ale capitata var quartzicola. I am being very picky. The one I had was 25 years old. It was abeauty. I can find seed but no plants of it.
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I very much agree with you. With limited space I myself are selecting plants that I want to keep. Not any or all the ones I currently own. I find it hard to dispose of any of my house plants while I have no problem killing weeds. Any plant that you have no use for is a weed. A weed no longer is a weed once you find a use for.
Meyermike(Zone 6a Ma.)
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Stush, it really stinks not having the space. I have had to sell my 25 year old jade to a Bonsai shop because I had no where to put it(

Many of mine I have to keep on the smaller side and if I cut them, I feel horrible throwing out the cuttings. If I owned a greenhouse, I would make a mint on all the babies of plants I have I can n ot bring inside.

Now that the greenhouse is not going to be heated for the winter, I have had to make more room for all of those.

Mike
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I gave my large Jades away also. No room. Keeping most Agave, Mangave, Sansevieria, Aloes, and some Euphorbia. Also a few cactus. Still way too many to care for.

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