Why thanks David! This was the first year that I've really been into this, and I went all out! I live in an apartment and it sits on a corner, and many people walking by would stop and comment, and tell me that they appreciate the "beautification" of the neighborhood! You know, those living rocks are not for me either! I keep thinking, oh it needs just a touch of water, and bam...rotting I have one that is just barely hanging on! The other plant I don't do well with is the one nicknamed "babies toes" have one of those barely hanging on...yet they won't full out die, which in a way would be better because then I could put something else in their place

Well, this is a VINE.
Originating from Africa.
But I will never see it as a vine but rather what it is now.

The good thing is... referring to the above, is there's so many plants in this world, that if we fail with one there's a bunch waiting to be tried. Greg, can't you just put that pot on the edge, walk by and accidently touch it? Or you don't want to lose the pot?

I sometimes throw away plants that I'm not too fond of anymore.
Cruel, but I DO.

You're very welcome Greg,

I always like seeing projects really well done like that. It basically is a big miniature garden! Just waiting for the tiny stagecoach to roll through...
I'm glad to know its not just me killing those "Rocks". I think they need zero humidity and would probably do better in fish aquarium gravel, so the water just wasps past their roots like a quick short breeze and is then gone!


You are TOOOO Funny Calin!

Calin, I even have trouble throwing away cuttings - even ones I know probably won't root! Let alone a full plant! No I have to have the poor things suffer to the very end, and maybe just maybe make a comeback!
David good idea about the aquaria rocks. I have mine in mostly chicken grit and they seemed to like it - until I insist they take a drink!! Oh well, Calin like you said - not all plants are for all people

>> I sometimes throw away plants that I'm not too fond of anymore.
>> Cruel, but I DO.

A neighbor has a really gorgeous garden. She told me that she only gives plants two chances: if they don't thrive and look like what she wants in their first spot, she'll move them once. After that, (she made a throat-cutting gesture).

I call her Attila the Gardener.

Attila... I have a few friends named Attila

I don't think throwing plants away is cruel.... I think keeping a bonsai going for decades is cruelty

fixpix said:Attila... I have a few friends named Attila

I don't think throwing plants away is cruel.... I think keeping a bonsai going for decades is cruelty :)

I know a few people like that. If there's a spec of life in a plant I will keep trying!

ASPCB:
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Bonsai!

I love it!

I read a science fiction novel once where the protagonists were fleeing someone, but were responsible for someone's bonsai, and kept hauling it along with them despite the difficulty. Finally they are almost killed, a and are taken unconscious into a hospital where they are nursed back to health over months.

Finally they are awakened, all healed. The doctors proudly show them the bonsai that they also figured out how to "heal": re-potted in good soil, well watered, and now several feet tall and becoming less twisted.

Nice Story.

Rick that's hilarious!
Arlene, I am sooo that way! But lately I don't have the energy anymore so less like that! Also its surprising how sometimes something that looks terrible does bounce back!!

Wow... poor bonsai...or... lucky bonsai???
Well, we have a lot of folklore, and whenever a super-baby is born (to a royal femily, or destined to do great things) the narrator always claims "and the boy grew in one year like others in seven" ... so when he was 3, he was actually a grown-up? SOOOO SAD!
Funny...

That's funny! "super baby"

Heres a lucky Bonsai!

A Coleus that has survived the freezes for almost 5 years now. It could have been cooked Spinach a long time ago!

David that is soo cool!

And it's beautiful too!

gg5 said:David that is soo cool!

Don't you mean "cruel" ???

Thanks much Greg, Margaret and Calin!

Oh well, I thought my garden was done for this year. NOPE!
I spotted a spotted thing!
Indeed. I spotted it, but it was already spotted :)
This Tricyrtis (maybe hirta?) proved to be a really nice, although very belated surprise.
I got it in a trade, not sure by what means, and I said to myself, whatever, let's see what it can do.
I have (well, HAD - it didn't come back this spring, and I really have no idea why) this Tricyrtis latifolia with brownish/yellowish blooms. Didn't really fancy it. So when I got another Tricyrtis I wasn't too excited about it.
Planted it in a really shady place, under a plum tree, in poor soil and I let it be.
And here it is, a few days ago... full of buds&blooms!