It’s halfway through August! How has the summer passed by so swiftly? The Sedum “Autumn Joy” is so full of its green buds and I will welcome the pinkish tinge which will be developing, but I don’t want the summer to be over yet. I haven’t even gone on vacation! But who am I kidding?…
Confessions are good for the soul so I must make a confession. Choosing the Purple Fountain Grass for my garage pots was a pitiful choice. Those garage pots currently look so fried and dried up. More like tumbleweeds. So I have replanted with Sedum Angelina. It is just too hot and sunny out there for…
First of all, I have never tried snake plant propagation, but there is no time like the first time, so I thought I would share the experience in case you wanted to try it too! We all have to start sometime if we want to do it, right? I will be trying water propagation and…
Elephant Bush or Elephant Food? Yes, it sure is. Portulacaria afra is a perennial succulent native to South Africa but it is a great plant for outdoors and indoors over winter here in Ohio. The common name comes from the succulent nature of the plant’s leaves and stout trunk, and also from the fact that…
Recently on a quick stop in Lowe’s Garden Center, I bought a plant that I had not seen before. It was Sedum Sunsparkler Blue Elf. This lovely blue succulent looked like just the type of plant that I love in hypertufa Why you ask? Because it is lower growing, mat forming, and then it blooms…
Looking for a wonderful sedum for your hypertufa or a rock garden? Sedum spurium “John Creech” is one of my favorite flowering succulents. It blooms with pink flowers in summer and grows a thick ground cover mat which helps to suppress weeds. You can also make new plants easily with cuttings! Score! It is sometimes…
Portulacaria afra is such a great succulent to grow. It is fast-growing, forgiving of neglect, simple to plant. What more could I ask of a succulent? Since it is called Elephant Bush as a common name, no wonder it grows fast. After all, when it is munched on by elephants and just grows back again…
OK, I really know the answer to my problem to get finished replanting Hens & Chicks. Stop buying more! I have so many that are waiting for a hypertufa pot to cure or leach, so I need to put on the brakes! But there are hypertufa planters waiting and ready, so I need to buckle…
You all remember my blog post about an easy way to plant up your pots by using sedum sod tiles. If not, see it here. But those little trays seemed nice and useful, but I just didn’t know what I could use them for. So I put them back on the shelves of My Garden…
Growing Hens and Chicks is an easy task for an inexperience gardener, so even if you are a beginner, these little Jewels of the Garden should still be a great pleasure to grow. I love to watch them spread and multiply. Someday I would like to have a whole extended rock garden full of them….