06 October 2018

semi- and succulents, old and new

A few small cuttings and plantlets I got from a friend of the family. I don't know their names, unfortunately. This one has round, flat leaves shaped like my 'ice plant' but a grassy green. It looks like another crassula of some kind.
and these tiny baby plants had grown from leaves that fell on the lady's table. The leaves had actually withered away, and the baby plants were holding themselves up with fine root hairs spread on the tabletop in her sunroom, between trailing stems. Lovely pale blue-green.
Not new- but replacing old. My kalanchoes had grown large enough to sport lots of babies on the leaf margins- and then started looking sickly, just like before. This time I simply cut them down (you can see the trimmed-off stems in here) and planted some of their largest babies.
I threw out the ponytail palm. After a summer languishing outside, it just didn't look like it would recover. Also tossed the string-of-pearls, it looked dead. Bummer. The first set of cuttings off my zebrina plant went into its pot:
I don't know what to do with my lithops anymore. It does not look good. It keeps sprouting new leaf pairs without any of them getting healthy. It's in the brightest window spot I have, yet still looks leggy and needy.
My oldest geranium, the one that's kind-of a bonsai, got its serious trim of the year:
Here's the best of its tops, which I stuck in a small pot to root
Older scion of it is still outside, obviously it loves the sun
Scented geranium is unhappy. I don't know if it was the switch to indoors, or I brought an insect pest in on it? Leaves keep yellowing and dropping. I'm trying to change its watering routine. Think it's too damp. Might move it into a smaller pot. Discouraged as I liked this plant.
Cuban oregano is looking pretty good.
Creeping charlie is glorious.
I am trying to save my elephant bush plant. It got hit really hard with some insect, outside on the porch this summer. It looks terrible. I'm taking cuttings of the few stems with decent-looking leaves, to see if I can restart it, but don't dare bring it inside yet to spread more ill...

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