(I was playing with the picture layout, as you'll see below, but it wasn't cooporating which is why there may be big gaps in places, and it looks messy... I've just run out of time to play with it more.)
Yesterday afternoon while the Little One slept, and Boy Wonder read, I cleaned up the succulent clippings I received on Sunday. I took them outside to my potting "table" (an old small dresser) next to the shed, and spent as much time as I could bare in the heat, mixing my soil, and potting things up.
This isn't all of what I received, just the creme de la creme for photog purposes ;-).
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Lots of sweat, and one slightly sunburnt arm later (the shade provided by the shed slowly fades as the sun moves across the sky, and my arm got the worst of it), here are my plants!
I don't have much skill with arrangements, but at least they're in dirt! Once they're established, and I find out what their growing habits are, I may need to do some rearranging.
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The two large terra cotta pots will stay outside, the rest I brought inside to nurse until I decide what to do with them.
With help from the wonderful people hanging out in the
cacti & succulent forum on Garden Web, I was able to have all of the plants I received identified.
Blue pot: Oscularia deltoides in the back, hen & chick in the center, and either Sedum spurium variegate or Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi in front (waiting on re-confirmation).
Green pot: hen & chick surrounded by Sedum burrito (or burros tail/donkey's tail).
Brown pot: crassula tetragona
Tiny Oscularia deltoides at the back, hen & chick on the right, Sedum burrito front right.
The variegated plant in front is either Sedum spurium variegate or Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi variegate.
The flowering one is Aptenia cordifolia variegata or "ice plant."
Crassula Ovata or "jade." The tiny plant sticking out of the front with yellow flowers is sedum reflexum.
I told myself I was done. Nine pots of plants was enough. After cleaning up, and bringing my haphazardly arranged plants inside, the remaining plants and extra pots wouldn't leave me alone! They needed the love--the acknowledgment their brethren had received. Who was I to ignore their cries?!??! How could I, in all my green thumbedness, ignore their desire to belong? I finally gave in to their pleas. I thought,
with the two big terra cotta pots staying outside, using two more pots for inside will keep things even. Then, my seven year old pointed out, "There needs to be one to grow on." (He big on "one to grow on." It means more marshmallows in hot chocolate, one more piece of candy, an extra kiss... lol)
After these were planted, I had to put the rest of the plant clippings outside. I knew if I saw them, they would end up in a pot--or a few. lol
Here are all the little babies sitting by the window, looking out at the SFG.
Oh. I didn't want to leave this one out of the post. I've had this
kalenchoe blossfeldiana for a few weeks...
Here are the ingredients I used to make my soil. I used equal parts of each, and added a less than recommended amount of 18-4-9 granule fertilizer.
Lastly, I dug these pictures up last night...
Here's to my dear old house plants. The next three pictures show only a few of the 30 some plants we freecycled before we moved. I still miss these guys, and hope they're doing well...
Lots of sweat, and one slightly sunburnt arm later (the shade provided by the shed slowly fades as the sun moves across the sky, and my arm got the worst of it), here are my plants!
I don't have much skill with arrangements, but at least they're in dirt! Once they're established, and I find out what their growing habits are, I may need to do some rearranging.
click the pic
The two large terra cotta pots will stay outside, the rest I brought inside to nurse until I decide what to do with them.
With help from the wonderful people hanging out in the cacti & succulent forum on Garden Web, I was able to have all of the plants I received identified.
Blue pot: Oscularia deltoides in the back, hen & chick in the center, and either Sedum spurium variegate or Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi in front (waiting on re-confirmation).
Green pot: hen & chick surrounded by Sedum burrito (or burros tail/donkey's tail).
Brown pot: crassula tetragona
Tiny Oscularia deltoides at the back, hen & chick on the right, Sedum burrito front right.
The variegated plant in front is either Sedum spurium variegate or Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi variegate.
The flowering one is Aptenia cordifolia variegata or "ice plant."
Crassula Ovata or "jade." The tiny plant sticking out of the front with yellow flowers is sedum reflexum.
I told myself I was done. Nine pots of plants was enough. After cleaning up, and bringing my haphazardly arranged plants inside, the remaining plants and extra pots wouldn't leave me alone! They needed the love--the acknowledgment their brethren had received. Who was I to ignore their cries?!??! How could I, in all my green thumbedness, ignore their desire to belong? I finally gave in to their pleas. I thought, with the two big terra cotta pots staying outside, using two more pots for inside will keep things even. Then, my seven year old pointed out, "There needs to be one to grow on." (He big on "one to grow on." It means more marshmallows in hot chocolate, one more piece of candy, an extra kiss... lol)
After these were planted, I had to put the rest of the plant clippings outside. I knew if I saw them, they would end up in a pot--or a few. lol
Here are all the little babies sitting by the window, looking out at the SFG.
Oh. I didn't want to leave this one out of the post. I've had this kalenchoe blossfeldiana for a few weeks...
Here are the ingredients I used to make my soil. I used equal parts of each, and added a less than recommended amount of 18-4-9 granule fertilizer.
Lastly, I dug these pictures up last night...
Here's to my dear old house plants. The next three pictures show only a few of the 30 some plants we freecycled before we moved. I still miss these guys, and hope they're doing well...
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