Most of my collection are still asleep showing winter stress. Here are a few that looked ok to photo the other day






















And my current fav (hard to capture the colour )

Looking great!
I just moved mine outside, a few are blooming.

Ursula said: Looking great!
I just moved mine outside, a few are blooming.

📢 ahem , clears throat
…shouts piiiiiiiiiCS📢 😀

I just took some pics!
These smaller ones are now on the deck, after spending the whole indoor season in our South facing living room window.

and into afternoon sun

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These two are under the awning/front step



I must say, I really enjoy these plants!

thanks! and Steve, thanks for the !
I just spent 3 days carrying my plants outside for the Summer. Not done in a long shot, but I am enjoying it.

Ursula said: thanks! and Steve, thanks for the !
I just spent 3 days carrying my plants outside for the Summer. Not done in a long shot, but I am enjoying it.

Plants look very happy
You create a nice display environment. A little different than the usual pots in lines
Steve

A mix ?
I moved all C&S outside, I managed to load up the 6 x 20 foot deck along with more stuff in front of the house. Have to take some more pics!

I call it "shoe-horning"!

@Ursula
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
Had so many plants she didn't know what to do!

Tell me about it! 😄
I am looking closely at the size/weight of some of my plants....

Ursula said: Tell me about it! 😄
I am looking closely at the size/weight of some of my plants....

Same here. Don't like it though. I tend to like big plants and the wind here requires heavier containers.

I am resigned to the fact that I cannot be the permanent home for some of my collection. I am just happy to be the custodian for a while . As long as I find them good homes I feel enjoy keeping them now. My footprint is 12 x 18ft I will always be limited to that
@ursula where do all the plants go inside ? Do you have big basement
Steve

I have a greenhouse which was built on top of the garage. In addition, the upstairs front room has large windows and there is some room downstairs too. Nice South and East windows. And the garage is frost free and my Epiphyllum hybrids and nowadays my large Jade overwinter in there without problem.

Ursula said: I have a greenhouse which was built on top of the garage. In addition, the upstairs front room has large windows and there is some room downstairs too. Nice South and East windows. And the garage is frost free and my Epiphyllum hybrids and nowadays my large Jade overwinter in there without problem.

what a fantastic setup

I consider myself lucky!

@Ursula , so in winter time, the plants stay in the garage and the car stayed outside?

TJOE, that garage hasn't seen a car since about 1972!
Yes!

Cars can go in a garage? I think I vaguely remember something about that from some time in the last century, before I ended up with so much stuff. I do know that garages are very fertile areas. Anything put in there will multiply.

My Firecracker, looking happy, healthy, and nicely sun-flushed. I repotted it into the terracotta a little over a year ago, after its previous ceramic pot turned it yellow and sickly. (Whether something toxic leached from the glaze, or the roots just got smothered by the glaze inside and out, I don't know.) I'm glad to see it finally back to its former glory. Just started a bloom stalk, too -- first one since before the repotting.


My hemmingii mystery seedling continues to grow annoyingly slowly but steadily. It's making the shift to rosette form, and the leaves are becoming more triangular and developing teeth.

Slowly waking up ,

Steve, they are gorgeous! Especially the second one, great color and texture!