Oooh, TK!

purpleinopp said: Could be. Or cats if you have those roaming loose.

We do.

Here too. IDK who is responsible, but they're not very responsible.

A neighbor down the road thinks some get left behind when people move. I know others are other neighbor's "outside" cats.

I finished the dismantled ring garden the other day. I got this concrete rabbit at Lowes last year for $10. It was regular $28. It's about 14" tall and 10" wide (for scale). I still need to measure the bed.



I found this Vibrunum today on the Facebook marketplace for $5. I was going to wait until next year to plant anything in the ring garden and I had decided on a vitex, but.... for $5, I couldn't pass it up.

Meet "Princess Gigi", she is only 7 months old and 7.5 inches tall grown by Nancy (zone 5b) from the seeds I donated through Victory Seed. She has been germinated and grown under grow lights, and blooming profusely. Her "crown of flowers" look amazing!


Here's more photos of her at the adeniums forum, with her crown of flowers:
https://garden.org/thread/view...

My rescue ZZ Plant has a couple new growths (one isn't visible) and the stems are progressively growing:


The one in front (left) is this fella (remember him?):

My clearance ZZs are suspended in time. Not growing but not rotting. Maybe it needs a bigger pot.

I think they grow slower in lower light. Mine old one would always pop out new growth in the Fall (more light coming into the house).

I finished moving my plants outside!
It seems through the years my ratio of C&S to Orchids and other misc ( like Passifloras) has shifted considerably. I started out with C&S, then added Orchids until Orchids were dominant in my collection, and now the ratio is somewhere around 50:50 %
I took some shots of the mostly C&S on the deck and some etcs. I posted them here:
https://garden.org/thread/view...
Perhaps you enjoy a bit of a look around.

I wasn't sure if I should have posted this into the Cactus and Succulent Chat?

I think either is fine. Most of us frequent both.

Providing the link works! What a great collection and variety of plants you have, Ursula.

Many years of growing, I suppose!

Well, didn't buy much, except for a small bottle of sweet wine. Went to Santorini, a volcano with one of the largest eruptions in Europe, equivalent to Kratau in Indonesia. I will post photos as soon as I am done with posting those from Istanbul though. But volcano though.

These arrived whilst I was away- Favosites coral, stromatolites, and a fossil sequoia leaf.

This one I picked up today afternoon, since I arrived sometime before noon.
Sphalerite var cleiophane.



I managed to find a single agate in the red beach at Akrotiri. Time there was too limited...

My $2 (clearanced) Sunpatiens. It was completely dried out and wilting when I bought it but I figured it just needed a drink. And look at it now.

I planted my snowball bush today:

Hope your sunpatiens will do well for you. It doesn't last for me because I am lazy watering. And I just searched snowball bush perfect for moon garden. 🪴

Like a proud grandma, meet 'Princess Gigi' (named after yours truly), she is just showing off big time. Grown from seed I donated through Victory Seed. Nancy who is zone 5b is growing her under grow lights and she developed buds at 6 months and here she is at 7 months full of blooms!

Hopefully this would really encourage others to try and grow beautiful desert roses from seeds and keep winter blues away.



I will be donating more seeds soon, just waiting for 6 more plants seedpods to ripen. Good thing is, Dave and his team have the patience to truly give everyone mix seeds. I don't have the patience. I collect them, pack by desert rose type and send the pack to him. Glad I could share these beautiful desert roses to anyone who wants to grow them.

I love that you do this Gigi and I love that people are planting these seeds, not to mention naming the offspring after your royal self. I would never have Adenium flowers like that here, the climate is just too cool for them. I am at peace with that eventuality, it is what it is, but when other people show these pictures of plants with lovely textured and tinted flowers in such abundance, it makes my heart go pitter patter.