Pelargonium cotyledonis Recovering

There is a bunch of new growth emerging on the Pelargonium cotyledonis I got in the mail several weeks ago. This plant originates from St Helena - an island in the South Atlantic that is 15 degrees south of the Equator. It is also infamous as the place Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to but that's a different story. It's location is pretty close to the 21 degrees Oahu is North of the Equator that this plant now lives on - we just have our wet-dry cycles opposite. I think I may have mentioned all that previously - but whatever - new leaves are popping out now and I'm looking forward to seeing this grow and develop.

Plant Scores from the VilaVerde Plant Sale

These are the plants I scored today - La picked up a cool ginger plant and some sedums (same as Marlon). We had a blast today!!!

Portulaca molokiniensis at Breakfast

We ate breakfast at one of La's favorite places (Cafe Haleiwa) - and this ihi was in the back. I hope they put it in some well draining soil pretty soon... These are some really special plants and they deserve our proper attention.

Notocactus scopas murielli

These were for sale today at the plant sale. And here's the one I've been growing for several months.

Plant Sale at VilaVerde

We went up to the North Shore today to check out the Yellin's plant sale. La and the kids could not make it last time I got the opportunity to visit - we definitely made up for it this time!!! I took pictures of individual plants (having seen the garden before) - and La took more pictures of the garden (I'll post some of those when she uploads her pictures). I found some more names for some of my unidentified plants - I'll post those shortly.

Noe's Capricorn II Adenium obesum Flowering

This is Noe's first Adenium and it has been flowering for a bit now. She got it last year and it really put on a lot of growth. The thing to really take notice of is the flower - it's a double!!!

A Lot of Progress in a Month

I've posted a bit on this plant lately, but I want to show what a month's time can do for a young Pachypodium brevicaule. Here's a picture from a month ago. And yesterday - lots of leaves and definite added caudex girth! I got this plant late last year and it quickly lot its leaves. At the time I wasn't sure if it was losing leaves to shipping stress or if it was settling in to dormancy, but I figured if it didn't leaf out by June, I could write it off then. I'm really glad my new found 'patience' was able to overcome my desire to cut open the 'dead' plant. In well draining media (mostly dry stall), I end up watering this plant every other day. It'll be interesting to see the development over the coming growing season.

Caralluma schweinfurthii Repotted and Starting to Flower

This plant was crawling out of its previous pot, so I made one of the long cedar plank boxes to repot it. In the process I went ahead and broke it up (it actually fell apart as I gently handled it). It's nice that it is flowering again! When these plants flower is pretty significant as that is the only sure-fire time to identify them (unless you are a scientist that has access to DNA testing equipment - of which I am not). Here is one of the cuttings I got last year and the first flower bud it is pushing.