Bev you are every so correct about the cacti succulent thing.
I was particularly intrigued by the offer your neighbor made. Sounds like a true 'come on' line. I couldn't have passed on the 'succulent' line, not so much on etchings, that would have sent me running.
And who was the collector/retailer in Cupertino? That sounds interesting. What was he growing at the time?

Serse I am laughing in a way filled will happiness at understanding that we have another true plant lover amongst us.
By the way, I love your avatar, beautiful succulents, that are not cacti.

Aren't we all in great company?

A true sign of just how much we love our semps, is the excitement I am feeling about seeing your photos when the plants come. We love to see baby photos.

You all are cracking me up!! I got my first succulent at like 15 or something (should I just leave it at that and let you all guess the rest?)

I can beat that Greg. I got my first when I was 5 or 6 years old. Well, that is 5 or 6 starting into my second childhood.

Thanks, lynn! Those were my first nursery purchase! They didn't come with a label, however, so I'm not certain what it is

The indoors have changed their color a bit for now (my first lesson in the crazy world of how succulents never stay the same for long!), but I am hoping they gain that lovely frosty appearance back in a couple weeks when they get moved out into the sunshine!

They sure will serse. The sun really brings out there beauty.

Greg, you were precoucious for your age?...

Seriously - what it was is that a friend of my mom's was moving away and had what I would later find out was a Euphorbia, but I called it my "Adam's Family plant" my mom and everyone else just called it that stick plant!! But I loved that little thing! Very much like Charlie Brown's christmas tree! I keep thinking I'll get another one, but now that I'm into other succulents, I'm not as attracted to the stick thing!

Hey, there are some Euphorbias that can out-succulent those other succulents (like I don't know which ones...) any day!!! We don't want to hurt any non-semp people out there in succulent land...

very true (if I understand what you mean!) no offense meant! I love all succulents! and I've since seen 20 foot tall euphorbias in AZ that make it hard to not look at mine and be sad - so scrawny! If I had that plant or if someone gave it to me, I'd totally like it, I just at this point won't go out of my way to own one again! It was a very easy plant to own, and it grew, unlike aeoniums!

Hey, look what i left behind when I left Santa Fe: my plant corner with the two....you got it, your old pal, euphorbia which I had to give to a neighbor and she emailed last year and said she got blooms which I never did when I owned them !!!

Those are gorgeous! Very cool window box too!
The type I had was more like this (I don't know how to do a link so just giving you the plant name)
Euphorbia (Euphorbia alluaudii subsp. alluaudii) just sticks until every now and then it would get a little leaf on the end!

I know which type you mean, Greg! Guy at the U.S. Botanical Gardens in DC told me that with that kind of Euphorbia plant you need to put it on it's side to prune/cut it down because if you do it upright, the white sap that oozes out will drip down itself and can kill itself. Which is why you got to tip it over so that sap drips onto floor or newspaper or on yourself.

Mark (on here) said that this sap is one of the things criteria that makes a euphorbia...but yes it did have that!!

What a cool plant Greg. Euphorbia (Euphorbia alluaudii subsp. alluaudii)

Bev that sun room is beautiful.

Here is a NOID semps from two years ago. Was such a pretty little thing

Very nice Lynn, it looks like 'Red Heart'

Very beautiful, Lynn! Loving the color

I don't have Red Heart, so not sure about it's size. I do know this one is small at maturity.

Oh, okay its not then since red heart is large! Its so hard to tell the sizes in a photo with nothing to gauge, I noticed that several of my plants look big, when actually there teeny still!

So true Greg. Some times I try to add something in the photo, say a coin, as a size reference. Especially on tiny plants.

I tried that with the sedum, but it was legs on these garden finials that I realized only I know how thick or tall they are so it is totally useless for others!