People in Recovery and Plants! (Part 2)

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Omgosh! I am in LOVE! :heart_eyes: What a gorgeous little cactus and cool looking ceramic jar!

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I’ve given my Gingko a VERY severe haircut.

:speak_no_evil_monkey:

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Watering day. Its so nice out here around 6pm.

Gotta start cutting back the water in a few weeks, for most of them at least.

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Free plants are the best! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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Johnson and Stumpy Pete survived the move, and even are budding new friends!

Here is my question: are they California hedgehogs or Lemon barrels?

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Sorry - not able to help you with your question. – Glad to hear that they survived the move and are thriving… how about the others?

There was a community garden near the gym that hosted the Hyrox Mini comp. :face_holding_back_tears: Can you spot the butterflies in the pictures? I’ve been considering doing something like this in my back yard.

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Such a happy place.

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There were butterflies everywhere. :face_holding_back_tears: :butterfly: I’ve been wanting to do something similar for a year now but I don’t know where on my property. If I do it in the front lawn, I’ll have to keep it tidy otherwise the village will say something.

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Beautiful show @TMAC

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I’m in the office three days a week so I haven’t noticed until now (my work from home day).

About two weeks ago, my coworker gave me a plant that she propagated. The little flowers are blooming! :heart_eyes: According to Dr. Google, this is a holiday cactus — most likely a Thanksgiving cactus. She also added a nice touch with the bunnies. :face_holding_back_tears:

Hopefully I can keep it alive. :sweat_smile: As for Cuervo, the agave, he has been brought inside for the year. I feel so bad for him because he gets so skinny in the wintertime. :pensive_face:

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Posted about dorstenia gigas before. Grow on cliffsides on the island of Socotra, which is just off the coast of Yemen. Managed to find one locally, but just a cutting. Seed-grown generally produces heftier, more impressive specimens but I will take what I can get. It’s from a local nursery, biggest one I know of, about 30 mins from me. I was going there for a few years before I learned that they are apparently a world-renowned desert plant distributor.

Even THEY don’t have anything seed-grown. The owner told me your best chance of finding one is in California, and even then still tricky.

So I have my wee twig that will someday be a beefy tree. Thought I killed it via repotting stress since it dropped all but 1 leaf in the aftermath, but this morning I spy some new growth forming :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

And more pics of specimens in habitat because they’re awesome.

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So awesome!!? Wow…they are massive :heart_eyes:

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Groot! Groot! What amazing plants!

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Might remember when I bought/potted a pair of titanopsis calcarea last autumn.

They’ve grown quite a lot and are just starting their growing season this yr (autumn/winter growers), so it’s a good time to move to something bigger. Bought two new small ones to fill it out. These plants form dense mats of leaves, and even in a year or two this bowl should fill up around the rocks really nicely.

Sept 2024:

Today

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And an update on my yucca that lives on my front stoop. First photo is 3 months ago, and I moved it out here from the greenhouse back in February. It’s doing really well out here! One of my favorite plants that I have. One of my favorite pots, too.

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Oh beautiful growth!

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