Garden Haven

When I adopted this one, he was about this big when I got him. He was on discount at Lowe's. At first glance, I saw nothing wrong with him. (I adopted him months ago.) After I got home, that's when I first noticed the sheer amount of mealybugs on him. So, not only was he a little light starved, he also had a bad case of mealybugs. On the next warm day, I took him outside and, with some 4" skewers, I very carefully removed each mealybug I could find. I'm gonna guestimate that it took around half an hour to get all of them. But he's in quarantine and I keep a close eye for any new mealybugs and remove them as soon as I can.

Where the first plant is in quarantine is where I had this guy and a few others. He is not happy with this new arrangement. (He was originally in an East facing window but is now in a South facing window after I did some rearranging.) But, I hope he calms down.

Teeny tiny prop! Fingers crossed this works!

There was a bad wind storm that came through, I think, right before I needed to bring everyone inside and long story short, I had to repot this one. Thankfully, he's kept his beautiful dark colors fairly well. 😊

This one is really clear but there are three cacti seedlings in this pot. I forget what kind they are. I'll try to update this again when they get bigger.

There are three little cacti seedlings here, too. I thought that they were a little hard to see in my camera roll so I thought that I would mark them so they'd be easier to see.

There are two cacti seedlings here. They are from a mix (same with the last picture) so, at this point, I have no idea what they are. I think I planted them back in March of this year.

This is the last one I'll talk about in this post. This is an apple seedling. I planted this awhile back and, after a while, it didn't look like it was going to make it. For those of you who don't know, apple seedlings have a high mortality rate during their first year. So, when I saw the health of this one going downhill, I wasn't too surprised but I still didn't want to loose it. (I grew a lot of apple seedlings in my spare time. Most of them didn't make it but that doesn't mean that it didn't still hurt.)

In other people's posts, I've seen water therapy work but it never did when I tried it. I had a clean water bottle and figured that it was worth a shot but still wasn't that confident.

When I started water therapy for this one, that was months ago. I'm surprised and pleased with how far this little one has come.

Wish me luck. I'm gonna try to take good care of them. It has the pot labeled as String of Pearls. Honestly, this is one of the better looking ones I saw. Most were rotting and had mold on them. I hope that I can give them a good, long life. :D

Please let me know if this isn't right. :P

I noticed there's a small cluster of something in between Clairvoyance's leaves.

Another leaf.

There's no update in this post. Just appreciation for how pretty and big these pups got on the mother plant (and how well the rocks look with them).

So this is Obsidian, my Aloewartha. I noticed a light streak on some of her newer leaves (as shown in the picture). I'm wondering is this a variegation?

Oh dear goodness. They were so root bound.

These ones are new but don't have any names. :P

Everyone else looks like they're doing fine. :) I don't know what's up with Sam (my Venus' Flytrap) but every once in awhile, he'll start making a new trap but it'll turn black.

The really long succulent that went over into Obsidian's pot has so about five(?) pups on her. :)

I got a PVN but I haven't named him yet. :/

As I was cleaning one of my plants, I noticed that one of my Venus' Flytraps has three new traps/leaves growing in! :D

They are still very small but they are the little green spikes by the base of the plant.