For those of you not from this part of the country, The Jade Plant will withstand some pretty heavy frost but it will turn a delicious red on the edges of the fleshy "leaves". It is a beautiful plant when it's huge, and some of mine are nearly six feet tall with huge trunks. I love the way one tiny paddle will fall and start another plant. The Jade plant can be trained into a sort of Bonsai, as well. I really love these plants. The plant to the left is a cactus, and the one to the right is a barrel cactus, grown from a seed. It is 24 years old and my mother gave me the seeds. There were two of them in a kit from a nursery in Nevada. Legacy plants, those... They both survived.
Enjoy your gardens. I wish everyone who lives could enjoy the peace of having a plot of land and be able to raise on it what they need for themselves whether, whether it's flowers fruit trees or a kitchen garden. And be able to hold it in UNTROUBLED Peace. Wouldn't that be heavenly?
How lovely - I have only ever seen a Jade Plant grown indoors in the UK and never with that glorious colour. I'm currently in charge of my brother's plant while he is in the US and it was grown from a cutting more than thirty years ago. Quite a responsibility....
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment, Magnusmog. Your brother's Jade plant must be enormous and is indeed, a heritage plant. Here jade plants grow rampantly, filling any space with little (soon to be large) replicas of themselves, if you don't keep an eye on them.
ReplyDeleteI love my Jade plant, which was a year-end close-out at Lowe's. A rather sad specimen, it was. Now, it's thriving in the kitchen window.
ReplyDeleteI've tried, without success, to grow cactus from seed. Bravo to you!
Hi fuzzarelly, thanks for your visit. I'd say that your jade plant loves you. It's the TLC. :) In good weather they can go outside, like summers, if they stay dry enough. Water once a month.
ReplyDeleteAnd cactus seeds are odd. You would think that they need to be dry when sprouting but the little kit had a solid color plastic bottom, a deeper clear snap on plastic lid ( there were a couple of holes in it), and peat moss mix that I wet down, planted the seeds, and closed the lid, setting it in filtered sun on a window sill. After about "forever", the little plants came up. I bet those kits are still around somewhere at cactus garden sites. Three seeds and one died. so sad. we didn't have a funeral though. ;)