Today's deep thoughts about plants

[Stan]

True. I also removed most all E. grandicornis. Only a couple of stems growing away from the sidewalk..all the rest I took out. Maybe others also, soon. Do I need a 4' round clump of A."California"..or maybe put in something more to look at all year? Not all that Aloe removed..just reduced.
I like the slightly more open space or..smaller plants in that space. We all evolve.

[Azuleja]

No deep thoughts, but I've been organizing, cleaning up and generally getting ready for winter. I've already moved my small aloes indoors but it got warm again so I had them out today for watering. I thought the different colors and textures were looking especially nice so I grouped some together for a photo.

[Stan]

I think Azul I have the especially pink one you ID for me..the name I cant recall again. Anyways,I went ahead and planted it out as it was really hating the 10" pot of peat based potting soil..doing well if watered perfectly...dying if I didn't ..or winter rains...so around July I think it went into the ground...and it looked touch and go at first..some serious leaf death.. I think a few were taken...but today I watered and the nice fall temps cool nights and it's looking better than ever. I just bite the bullet it stays put. People around here notice I'm die hard at planting. Still,the newest growth in ground is best I've ever seen.

[Azuleja]

If I remember correctly, you have 'Pink Blush.' It's pretty carefree but can't winter outdoors here. I do wish the fall weather would last a little longer. Things have been growing so happily.

[Kat_W]

Hilarious!

[Stan]

Here's a thought of indescribable depth...Even as my tropical plant season ends..at least the time I spend watering has gone way down..sort of a relief as the growing season routine starts out as "Summer!"..then gets to be, Again? When you have to unwind a 100' Goodyear rubber hose often by July. Never did install an automatic system. I'm the automatic.
All's good. Plants are the best they look after long growing season and yet,almost no care. Garden nirvana.

[Stan]

At what point baby boomer do you stop planting tree's for the future? Seeds of plants that take years to be even plantable? When do you calculate your time left.with the time of the plants. I don't mind container plants that are always small compared to the garden. But when you want to landscape..for what future or right now?
My deep thought along those lines gets shallower and more to the surface by the day.

[Gee.S]

Been calculating time left for quite a while. In many aspects of life.

[abborean]

planted blueberries and PawPaws recently. Guess I'm optimistic at 66.

[mickthecactus]

I'm optimistic at 72! Still sow Ariocarpus.

[Stan]

Here's one: "Some days,life just Succulents". Feel free to put that on T- shirts or posters. Just put the -Stan,thing in there

[Stan]

It came to me. A name for a grower:" Successful Succulents" I'm always thinking.

[toditd]

Plants on the windowsill and house cats don't always play well together.

score: Cat: 4 - 'Cream Spike': 0

The cat won, so this little 'Cream Spike' pup now has a new home and the cat has the entire windowsill to herself (at least for the moment).

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[mickthecactus]

Today's deep thought - how much I enjoy vegetable growing. But I would like some rain. Not a drop in May - literally.

[mcvansoest]

Well, we, uncharacteristically for May, got some drops - I suspect given how the weather radar looked that some people not that far a way got more than drops... Very early for the season to already have had a dust storm. It dropped from 112F in the back yard to high 90s in about 30 minutes...

It came from the wrong direction to get good pictures and it wasn't quite up to the level of some of the classic giant moving walls of dust that occasionally make international news, but a dust storm nonetheless.

[Salguod]

Thankful to get my GH cover on recently, we’ve had rain off and on for 2 weeks and it looks to continue this for a while. Typical for the Gulf Coast. Hard to put treasures in the ground

[Stan]

My deep thought this time of year? How the heck do the tropicals survive our winters? I see them now in 80f weather that's not exactly causing explosive growth..so where the heck did the DNA to survive Hayward's 3 month winter of possible 30's to even freezing..and they do. Why would they? Some plants come from solidly tropical backgrounds hasn't been a cold day in 64 million years there.
I can open my freezer right now and that's what my Cattleya orchids ( and all else) just about take in the last week of December. A wonder.

[abborean]

Much agreed. Particularly weedy kalanchoe from Madagascar. Maybe continental drift explains those though.

[Stan]

As usual,its August and I'm really getting into my tropicalia...mounting on my Trachy palm orchids and epiphytes of all manner. Its the time of year when I feel like I could grow anything tropical outdoors. Happens to me every year about this time. One year I planted a potted coconut. It died by December.
Yet,by March,I'm like my above post..wondering why do I plant them when they look worn and ragged?
Just never fails.
But..most of what I plant does do well. I guess I forget after two months of Dec,Jan lows in the 30's...then that cold wet Feb-March that warm will return.

[Stan]

Test came back negative. I couldn't remember what post it came up before,so here....but they said no corona. But,like I told them,I've never had the flu in August in my life. Dec-Jan like everybody else until this year. Plenty of articles of negatives that really were not..but I'm fine now.

[mcvansoest]

Depending on what test you got, I think the bigger issue is with false positives than false negatives, but you got better, which is all that counts in the end. Now get ready to get your flu shot !

[Stan]

For sure. Every year. Funny that I went from freezing and frozen toes,chattering teeth to broiling at 99.9...and then back and forth for two days. So,it was no cold.

[Azuleja]

No more rhymes. Now I mean it!

Anybody want a peanut?

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[Jkwinston]

No more rhymes. Now I mean it!

Anybody want a peanut?

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Thank you. Truly beautiful. Jkw

[Stan]

Cycads love to pretend they are dying or even dead. But they never do die. AGGRAVATING.