The Succulents and Pottery Compulsion

My daughter Noe got me interested in succulents in early 2016 and ever since we've been on a quest!!! Naturally with so many new plants around, we needed pots to put all of them into. The typical pots you can buy from the big box stores just don't have character that suits these incredibly interesting plants. So we've both been making our own pottery. And now we're branching out into other plants - Aeroids, Orchids and Citrus!!! Check out what our green thumbs have been doing!!!

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Plant Pirate Booty

Again Nathan was so kind to send a bunch of plants home with us! We kinda gravitated to the ones that interested us and we each repotted the ones we want to take responsibility for - I'm a sucker for caudiciforms now... so these were adopted by me...

The Ficus petiolaris. Nathan said these are from Baja California and we should never plant it in the ground... The leaves are striking but the stems coming off the body - wonderful!!!!

The Pachypodium saundersii. There are two others I still have to repot - these plants intrigue me more and more each time I look at them - the more spines, folds, and dare I say it - the uglier the better!!!

and a type of Euphorbia I'm still working on identifying (UPDATE - I'm pretty sure this is a Euphorbia millotii). And this Euphorbia mililii (it's got white flowers!)