Well, I did it!

Well, here is an all-too-familiar story. The one where you just feel compelled to stop somewhere on your way home from work, just to sort of check out the succulents, and maybe a new pot. Yeah, yeah, yeah...and then you know what happens. I found a nice pot for burying my crested baby, but I also found another crested baby (just like mine), so decided to plant two. Here they are with their stalks buried, to become giant roots. BTW, the new plant I bought was calling my name because it was sitting in a bag of water because they were in an open area, and it has rained every evening for the past week. I HAD to. Had to. Had to. I think they look real nice sharing their new pot together. Of course I removed all of that wet soil around the roots of the new plant, so it is so happy now. I am happy for them both!

Here is a littel orange colored lizard that Doozey and I found on our walk tonight. It is hard to see just how orange he was...he was a sort of bright rust color...quite pretty.

And last I got a shot of Doozey saying "Please don't take me in the house...I want to contine on my smell-o-walk"! That is what we call our leisurely walks where she is allowed to stop and smell all those lovely doggy smells around the neighborhood. When she gets back home again, she stops in her tracks outside on the sidewalk, and refuses to walk to the front door...she has to be carried up, because no good walk can ever last long enough!!!

New succulent plants!

Well, this evening I was over at Home Depot, and I actually found one of those orange sun bromeliads...for 35 dollars! They only had one, and it had a pup attached too, but it was fairly beat up, so I decided to wait and buy some online. I can buy smaller plants in much better condition, and for a lot less money too! As I was leaving, I HAD to pass by the succulents, and upon close inspection I found these 3 rather unique (to me) plants. I potted them up together for now. I think they look nice together in this big clay pot I had.

The little one in the front is called Sempervivum Rebellum Mohogany of "Live Forever"
The purple one is Aeonium arboreum atropurpureum 'Zwartkop'cristata
The taller green on is called Sedum praeltum cristata


You can see that the cristatas are on thick bases and on the side where the growth comes out I got photos of these sides, and you can see how full and bushy they are. They remind me of stegosaurus dinosaurs, with the plates down their backs!! I definately could not resist them. I wonder how they will grow, what they will do as far as size, and growth pattern. That is the beauty of succulents...they are just plain fun!