Re: Mystery succulant decoded

I try, I do.  But not to the extent you do.  Of course I don't have as many
plants as you do either.

Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Mystery succulant decoded


> Better than that, Donna, since Mr. Shrub Jay steals all my labels, I
> title pictures with botanic names and store them in folders with common
> names within folders with general type names. If you can follow that
> sort of confused description. For example, pictures of the variegated
> Portulacaria alba are labeled and stored as "Portulacaria alba01a,"
> "Portulacaria alba01b." and so on [01 being a shoot on a particular
> day] inside a folder titled "Elephant Bush," inside a folder titled
> "Succulents," inside a folder titled "Cactus & Succulents," inside a
> folder titled "Plants," inside a folder... but you get the idea. Whew!
> Kind of compulsive, what? But it seems to work--so far I've always been
> able to find the botanical of plants that I more or less remember.
>
>
> On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 10:40 PM, Donna wrote:
>
> > Hope he makes a tag so he doesn't forget :)
> >
> > So who id it?
> >
> >>
> >> Well, I definitely see the Purslane connection, hadn't realized it
> > before
> >> when we thought it was a sedum.  Feels good to be able to call it by
> > name,
> >> doesn't it?
> >>
> >> Kitty
> >>
> >>> Kitty and others. My succulents were Portulacaria afra, one green,
> > one
> >>> variegated. Colorful [common] names are purslane tree [green] and
> >>> elephant bush [variegated]. Here are sites to my pictures.
> >>>
> >>> http://davesgarden.com/pdb/showimage/52456/
> >>>
> >>> http://davesgarden.com/pdb/showimage/52454/
> >>>
> >>> great little plant., It is a purslane relative, and the leaves look
> > a
> >>> bit like land cress leaves.
> >>>
> >>> Island Jim
> >>> Southwest Florida
> >>> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> >>> Zone 10a
> >>> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> >
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> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> Zone 10a
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
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