Kikue's Garden

We got invited to another club member's house - really cool plants everywhere!!!

Thank you Kikue!!!

Update on the Fred - 12/5/2017

It's been a while - I have to dig out the previous post on the FRED to see what changes have occurred.

Three of Four Native Portulacas

I found this plant while at Home Depot - Portulaca villosa

With this addition, I now have three of the four endemic or indigenous Portulacas of the Hawaiian Islands.  I need to find a Portulaca sclerocarpa -

Random Pictures of Pottery from a Local Nursery

Another One Identified!!!

Duvalia sulcata

This one finally flowered two days ago - and checking on it this morning, the flower is still wide open.  I'll try and take another picture this evening.

These asclepiads are especially hard to identify - until they flower that is!!!

Trimming the Big Euphorbias

First off - I know I have been delinquent in posting - life happens and when juggling priorities, blogging is one of the first things to drop off.  I haven't been ignoring my plants though - so I'll try to catch up here with the progress made.

I recently decided to trim up the Euphorbia esculenta and Euphorbia flanaganii that I have had growing (for a little less than two years with me).

I have been reluctant to do this because I didn't know how much I could cut off in a single session without throwing the plant into distress (past the point of no return).  With the cuttings and seedlings I have to back up the parent plant, I figured I'd work on the flanaganii first.

Using a super sharp xacto knife and finding a place to start, I cut my way through the lower arms up to a point that I thought would produce an aesthetic result.

It didn't take as long as I thought, so I decided to go ahead and trim up the esculenta.

There was a lot of sap lost, but several days after the trimming, both plants are doing well!  So don't be afraid to trim your medusa headed Euphorbias.

Seedlings and Cuttings (Euphorbia esculenta and flanaganii - and maybe globosa and gorgonis)

I know these two came from the globosa and gorgonis (or something else - but not the flanaganii or esculenta).

And these seedlings are getting settled in their new pots.

Last but certainly not least - these cuttings are really plumping up