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Re: What's growing on?

Jim;
Glad to hear you and your plants survived the bad weather, if a little
battle-scarred. I've been enjoying your posts and reports on plants in
bloom..I envy your ability to bring your cactus to bloom, something I could
never do, in my brief foray into the world of the spiny.

What prompted this note was your mention of the Echeveria..Am not a big fan
of succulents, although I have a few..But a couple of months ago I saw a
picture of Echeveria 'Superelegans' and fell in love. Do you, or does
anyone on the list, know of a source?

A lot of high wind here at the house last night, along with some
desperately-need rain. No damage to my houseplants that are in summer camp
in the back yard, though a couple of the larger ones had to be set back
upright. My Dipladenia bloomed sopradically all winter inside, and now is
in full bloom. I usually cut it back hard in spring, along with renewing
the soil and digging in Osmacote 14-14-14. But this year got behind in
everything, so just fertilized, pruned lightly. And its going nuts with bloom.

Gerry

At 01:16 PM 6/1/98 -0400, you wrote:
>James Gray wrote:
>> 
>> Let's see, what's looking good on the porch today?
>> 
>
>Here's a post-stormy weekend update on my plants, if you're all
>interested.
>
>> 
>> Various unidentified cacti are growing fine.  I have one that has big
>> lacy yellow flowers and one that's kind of squat with smaller red
>> flowers.  Also, I have one that's got these hairy tumor-things growing
>> out of the top in a ring.  Are these flowerbuds or fruits or just the
>> way it grows?  They seem to be getting bigger...
>>
>
>Turns out the "tumors" are buds.  One of them just exploded into this
>BIG pearly-pink flower on Friday afternoon.  The one with the yellow
>flowers is setting another bud up for opening, and the red-flowered one
>is due for an unfolding today.
> 
>
>> 
>> An echeveria, the Mexican Snowball, I think.  It's kind of
>> bluish-greenish-white with the powdery bloom.
>
>Medic!  The wind blew my newly acquired mandevilla off the ledge on
>Saturday, taking the echeveria with it.  Massive damage to the
>echeveria, but it survived. Looks a little denuded and scarred, but it's
>alive.  The mandevilla, monster that it is, managed just fine, although
>I lost the biggest bud. *sigh*
>
>
>> 
>> A boweia volubilis that I'm pretty much ignoring except for a trickle of
>> water every now and then.  When I paid attention to it, it tried to die
>> on me!
>> 
>As it turns out, this one was suicidal!  One second it was right there
>in the pot and when I came back from the front yard, poof! Gone!  I
>looked around and found it lying on the porch floor about 3 feet in
>front of the pot.  Weird...
>
>> 
>> Purple Wave Petunia...I love this thing!  It's grown about 3 feet in the
>> month since I bought it.  It's in a hanging basket and it's just about
>> to throw about forty-seven bushels of neon purple flowers!
>> 
>Hee hee!  My mom keeps asking me what I gave it.  She apparently thinks
>I tried some kind of mad scientist formula on it or something.  Of
>course, all it is is lots of sun and Peter's Flowering Food...and darn
>good genetics!  Can't do this with a normal petunia... :)
>
>-- 
>Botanical Name of the Week: Knifophia, one of the more nearly perfect
>fittings of name to form.
>
>Jim Gray 
>jjg@c-cor.com
>Altoona, PA: Zone 6A
>
>
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