It's Sunday again - my days off seem to be the best day to observe and record new goings-on in the GH. Some really good news! I put merredithii x. crassicaulis (the clone I got from Ted Green 2 years ago) out on the back deck about a week or so ago. That one has been a struggle for me. It rooted nicely when I got it, and I think even put on a little new growth the first year. But in 2009, it apparently got a little dehydrated and looked like it was failing. So I ended up cutting it back and re-rooting a portion of it and putting it back in the mother pot. It did a little better, and earlier this spring, it even put on one new leaf off thge newly rooted part. But the main plant just never looked quite right to me. So in an attempt to get it going, I put it outside. It may be more about timing, but it has some new growth on it already, so I'm very excited!!

I repotted davidcummingii into one of those 5" hanging pots this week. It looked to be dehydrating - I think it was potbound, plus I found a couple scale on it - grrr. I treated it with BATS. I really fight those buggers on the ones I've gotten from Hawaii... They must be a real nuisance over there.

Check out my first flowers on pubicalyx 'Red Buttons'. I really like the rosey,

mauvish color of the corollas, and I especially like the white, furry rim. My first flowers opened yesterday (6/5/10) - I have other peduncles starting to bud up. Now, if I could just get 'Pink Silver' to bloom! It's such a stingy bloomer - I've let it wander to both ends of the GH, up along the eaves, and it seems quite happy. Maybe I'll hit it a few times with a bloom booster...

My H. carnosa 'Krimson Queen', which I grow in the sunroom, has been putting on new growth. Oh, it's a bit slow, as it typical of variegates, but it looks good. I put the big 'Krimson Princess' out on the fron't porch about 10 days ago. I figured it might bloom for me if I summer it outside. Now, if I can just remember to keep it watered! And here's a cluster of all-cream leaves on my 'KQ'...

It's really beautiful, but I usually end up eventually removing leaves like this because the lack of chlorophyll tends to slow the growth to the rest of the plant at some point. I'll wait until that's apparent, though, and enjoy them in the meantime...

I got up this morning and put three of my carnosa rubras in 5" hanging pots for the sale. I got a box of them from Awanda this week - decided they'll look better and I can get a few more bucks for them in hanging pots. I've also put 3 polyneuras in those pots, too. I figure I'll charge about $12 apiece for them. I was going to charge $10, but I think the pot (which really probably costs me $2 w/shipping) makes them more desirable.