Set Back....

Just a small update here. Bit of a set back: due to it being late in the season, my soon-to-be pretties - the Sumatra lily - has been placed on back order. 

The Lily Pad : Sumatra Lily

I won't receive my bulbs for this amazing lily until Mid to late October.

One other pretty is coming my way in mid-to late October, but I'm kinda keeping that one a secret.  

I also have several bulbs that will be harvested from my sister's bucket =^-^= 















They look incredibly whimpy right now.. can't even stand up straight but I really can't wait 'till I can plant these for myself and watch them grow and grow. 






Meanwhile, I have this little one growing. 

Aeonium Kiwi 2012

This cute cactus caught my eye in the store last April (2012).

I adored the little clusters of flowers and the pink tips. However.... 


since the day I bought it... it has not had any pink on its tips....
It's slightly irritating, since that's the reason I bought it.. but I have to wonder if it just isn't liking its environment...

Aeonium Kiwi 2013

This is what it has turned into now:

All the pictures online and all the descriptions show this plant staying close to the ground or staying in a massive cluster. Mine, instead, chooses to no longer have pink tips... aaaaaannnnnddd looks like a weed XD. 


I placed it next to our aloe vera plant and have been experimenting with its watering cycle. Every where I read contradicts each other. One will say "Water only when soil is dry and soak thoroughly"; others will say "water daily to every other day and just barely soak the top." (mind you, these quotes are technically paraphrases....but this isn't a formal document so I can quote things as I please :3 ) I tried the first.... now I'm trying the second. 


My efforts seem to not be in vain. Within a mere week and a half, dark color began to return to the leaves - it's been raining here for over a week, so I held it under the soft sprinkles until it was lightly watered for a few days. We shall see how it develops. 


My main question is how did something so adorable turn into THAT?!??? Ah well, makes things interesting, no? :3



Among some of my other little baby plants:

Chlorophytum comosum

Commonly known as an Airplane plant

 Strange fact about this plant.... Apparently, if you take the little offspring the plant produces, it will have the multicolored leaves that you see here - just like the parent plant. It's a clone. 

However, and this is the odd thing, if you take a seed from this plant and try to grow it, it will produce a wonderful plant, but it will only be a solid green leaves and produce clones with solid green leaves as well. So, if you want to keep a green and white stripe, you have to only plant the little offshoots... 

Here's the parent plant.

Chlorophytum comosum

Commonly known as an Airplane plant

 I want to say that this plant is at least fifteen years old... Could be closer to twenty. Our grandmother had this plant for years. I barely even remember when she didn't have it. She gave my sister one about ten or twelve years ago so, I would almost bet it's between fifteen and twenty years old - especially since it's producing these little offshoots like crazy.





It also produces cute little white flowers on these offshoots. Before the little mini airplane plants appear, the stem is full of those little cute flowers. And at the tip of these stems will either be seed pods or a baby airplane. It's fun to watch as it sprouts off all over the place.












Among a few other plants that we got from our grandmother, the Aloe Vera is one. It is a decently sized plant by now - thriving and happy.

Aloe Vera

SO! I took these three little guys off the top and put them in my own pot to make my own plant!!!!

 Unfortunately, we had a storm come through about three weeks ago and blew this little pot off the porch where I had it sitting... broke a few of the little branches off. It's recovering, but I may lose a few pieces. News on its recovery shall be posted later.











A friend of mine found out that we really wanted to start an herb garden, so she sent my sister a rosemary plant. Well... I wanted one of my own just because I like it so much so we cut a few small pieces off and planted them and so far, they're living!!!!! They live! THEY LIVE!!!
[ pictures coming later... I keep forgetting to take a pic of them.... ^^; ]







And here I said this was a small update... NEVER BELIEVE THAT!
I think I got a little carried away. Ah well. At least it was fun to do ^-^/