10 days after surgery...

It's been a little rougher than I anticipated.  The first several days were utter misery.  But it's been gradually better each day for the last few.  Yesterday, I actually said that I can see me graduating to the cane in the not-to-distant future.  Today... well, that doesn't seem as close as it did yesterday, let's just say.  But I was pretty active yesterday, so maybe I'm paying the price today.

I've been diligent about doing my exercises.  A few of them are tough.  I assume they'll get easier as I heal.  And that's about all I have to say about it at this point.  I'll be more "yacky" about it when I have good things to report!

Of course, my best distraction is sitting in the GH (or sunroom) looking around at my plants.  So I snapped a few pics this morning to give me something to blog about.

A few weekends ago, I helped Claude out for a few hours at his estate sale, just to be there for plant-related questions.  I got a couple plants from him, and one of them was a plant that someone didn't want - she wanted to buy the pot it was in but had no interest in the plant.  It's a Rhipsalis I don't have, which is Rhipsalis baccifera ssp. horrida:

It needs a little TLC, but I think it could turn into a nice plant in a few years.  

Another one I got from Claude, but back during the June meeting in the raffle, is one of little artistic bonsai style plantings.  It's a Dorstenia foetida with some sweet little Peperomia prostatus as a ground cover:

I think that might be a BJ pot... BJ was a friend in the club some years back who passed away from cancer.  I have several of her pots, all of which I treasure... Anyway, it has an interesting rock behind the Dorstenia.  The Dorstenia was a big leggy.  I've never whacked a Dorstenia before and asked around about whacking it and no one seemed to have any experience doing so.  So I took a chance and whacked it back and very quickly, some cute little leaves started sprouting all around the top.  And how it's blooming already:

I think by next year, it could be a pretty fabulous looking plant!  

From the Des Moines show, I got a Dioscorea elephantipes that's cute as a bug's ear:

It has lots of vining, delicate foliage that will likely drop this winter.  If I can keep it alive over the winter, next spring, I'll put it outside in a bigger pot and hope for some serious growth of the caudex!d

I whacked back my Crassula ovata Hobbit this spring - I mean, really whacked it back!  I got a couple dozen little starts, but this is what the new growth looks like:

Nice compact new growth.  Another year or two and this may be a show-worthy plant.  This is one that has some pretty spectacular Haworthias as ground cover:

(Notice there is one little mini-Jade growing in there... not sure how that got started!)  In spring, I plan to move this up to the snazzy teal bowl/pot on the front porch.

Haemanthus albifloss decided to shoot a bloom when it came inside.  Too bad it got an ugly sunburned leaf!

It has been an outstanding year for most of my plants, but it's been spectacular for both of my verticillata albomarginatas!  I actually had THREE in early spring, but one started to quickly decline, so I chopped it up and made potted cuttings, all of which took and I've sold.  The other two pots grew nicely and look just amazing:

This is the one in the GH growing in hydroton.  It's happy as a clam and has put on all kinds of new vines and leaves.  I don't think it bloomed this year, but it could still bloom this fall.

Hoya pusilla is one I got from Chuck.  It's been looking a little washed-out, but it was quite large, so I decided to whack it back and restart it.  I kept the mother pot, leaving a little foliage and vines and it's coming back nicely.  I'm keeping the biggest of the pots I made and have a few to sell.  Here's the one I kept:

You can see 4 or 5 of the "washed out" looking leaves, which I will probably trim off if they don't green up like the rest of it.  It seems pretty happy otherwise!

More tomorrow...