I haven't updated the blog since before I left for Manchester, and my collection has grown quite a bit since then. I counted my plants yesterday ... and I have 127 - with a few more on the way!
My so-called Xmas cactus (Schlumbergera truncata, I think) had lost all its flowers whilst I was in Manchester, but there are already tiny buds growing on the tips of the leaves.
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And these are the plants I bought in Manchester. We went to Flourish every day, some days even twice! I managed to pack most of them in two plastic storage boxes, but I had to put a couple in separately (the kalanchoe in a Lindt chocolate box, for instance!), but they all survived the journey home in the suitcase. It took me a few days to get them re-potted, and in fact I still have a few in their original pots, because I'm waiting for some pink pots I ordered on the Internet.
These are the plants in their packing boxes. Because I didn't remove the soil from the pots they were very dirty, but nothing too major.
Unfortunately the ceramic planter wasn't packed too well, plus it was close to the edge of the suitcase, so it now has a crack down the side. (I cut my finger when I took the planter out of the suitcase - ouch!) It's a very thin crack - the other marks are just the light hitting the ceramic. I've superglued the crack and hope it holds, although I'm not using at the moment because I don't have a plant which fits,
Watering the air plants ...
These lithops are also from Manchester. I re-potted them in this "olive bowl", but have since put them in the old Citronella candle pot where I had the sedum pachyphyllum leaves. I've now potted the sedum in their "permanent" terracotta pot and have put them in with the adult succulents, on the shelves in the craft room.
Some of the plants in their new pots -
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More lithops - these are from Gibralflora.
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I have another plant Ang bought me the other day - a pilea with beautiful leaves.
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I've also got more lithops and an echeveria from Etsy, and an order of plants, etc from a German website on the way. I really will have to stop buying plants now! I want to re-arrange the furniture in the living room, so that I have the wall by the door free to hang shelves on, plus I may even bring my shoe cupboard from the bedroom into the living room so I have another surface to put plants on - plus it will then free space up in the bedroom ... just so I'm able to walk around the bed to the wardrobe and not have to jump across/over the bed!