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At our local Home Depot - an Orchid House!!!

Cool Arrangement and a Look Inside a Broken Succulent Leaf

I was killing time at Home Depot (Iwilei) waiting for traffic to thin out and these things caught my eye. This is the only nursery that I've seen pack a bunch of little semperviviums into a tight space. Makes for a neat display. They had a few of these thick Ice Plants, but the spread on them was larger than the standard plastic pot. That pretty much means some leaves are going to get broken. And here is one of those broken leaves. Same gel interior as your typical Aloe vera and other leaf succulent plants. This makes me want to look at the interior material through a microscope. Definitely a better way to spend time instead of sitting in traffic.

Cactus Flowering Season Here on Oahu

I stopped by the local Home Depot this afternoon - these plants were working it!

Nursery Surfing - Home Depot Iwilei

Living on an island has an unusual effect merchants. You expect the smaller nurseries to have the high quality, locally based plant selections and the Big Box shops to have stock that is acquired using the Big Box economies of scale buying power - but here in Hawaii the Big Boxes get their stocks from the same nurseries that supply the specialty/local shops. On Friday, I made my traffic stop at Home Depot and they had some nice plants. Nice healthy plants!