Cacti and Succulents

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  • ProudMumForever
    ProudMumForever Online Community Member Posts: 233 Empowering
    @woodbine yes thats true . The roses love it 😊
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    @ProudMumForever At the moment my favourites are California poppies and gazanias. Both very hardy and I’m looking forward to seeing them flower again in May/June time, they both last a long time too well into October or until a sharp frost, en they lay dormant til next season. Amazing plants. 

    I do have a rhododendron too and a good friend its been for this last thirty five years, ever since I liberated it from a farmers field surrounded by sheep and looking very poorly. It has blue flowers in May time
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,452 Championing
    We can flip for who goes first @ProudMumForever :D 

    I've got a 'grow your own bonsai tree' kit too, so I need to get a shuffle on really!
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    @Tori_Scope Did you find the bonsai tree kit in the reduced section? 🤣
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 16,672 Championing
    My favourite plants are lavender, aubretia, verbena, lupins, delphiniums, carnations, crocosmia & foxgloves. I also have a lovely buddleia bush I 'inherited.' I discovered begonias last year & really like them too. I have some outdoor succulents, which seem to be doing well.
    Indoors, I like orchids, but my cat has destroyed 3, & a houseplant (mutters, also courgette seedlings), so have given up on anything inside.
    My daughter-in-law has been growing indoor cacti for some time; their cat & dog both behave!
  • ProudMumForever
    ProudMumForever Online Community Member Posts: 233 Empowering
    @leeCal .... I shouldnt tell you have LOL at youre comment about bonsai in the reduced section  🤣😂 because this will only encourage you 😂😂😂
  • ProudMumForever
    ProudMumForever Online Community Member Posts: 233 Empowering
    @chiarieds hiya i also love carnations . My buddleia did really well last year , even though its meant to be a tri colour and only bloomed 2 colours ! But the bees love it 🐝🐝 . I spent about 3 hours gardening yesterday 😊
  • SueHeath
    SueHeath Online Community Member Posts: 12,388 Championing
    Hi @ProudMumForever i helped son in his garden yesterday, i used to do his garden for him, i can't now so i've become his teacher ha ha. Did you enjoy your gardening hope the body not feeling it today.
  • ProudMumForever
    ProudMumForever Online Community Member Posts: 233 Empowering
    Morning @SueHeath .how are you ? I love being out in the front or back  garden . My back garden is like 100ft so theres plenty of space ! I mowed the grass,did some planting and weeding , did a fair bit of pondering 😊 . Moved some pots around,then moved them back !! I need to plant up my outdoor succulents , ive gone a bit mad with buying 😂. Not had outdoor succulents before . Does your son enjoy gardening ? 
  • ProudMumForever
    ProudMumForever Online Community Member Posts: 233 Empowering
    @Teddybear12 hello ! 
    Yes i was so chilled out yesterday afterwards,the time flies by . 
    When my youngest son was a toddler and he had his own gardening tools , he loved to dig holes ... lots and lots of holes !! 
  • SueHeath
    SueHeath Online Community Member Posts: 12,388 Championing
    ProudMumForever said:
    Morning @SueHeath .how are you ? I love being out in the front or back  garden . My back garden is like 100ft so theres plenty of space ! I mowed the grass,did some planting and weeding , did a fair bit of pondering 😊 . Moved some pots around,then moved them back !! I need to plant up my outdoor succulents , ive gone a bit mad with buying 😂. Not had outdoor succulents before . Does your son enjoy gardening ? 
    now i know you've got the gardening bug, i'm also a member of an online garden club, like this site it gives a lot of good advise and helps with problems.

    My son likes a tidy garden to minimalist for me - so just small amount of lawn to cut and feed a bit of weeding and feeding a few shrubs.
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 59,525 Championing
    I've bought some  violas  flowers for the front,  to be honest I thought they were pansies till I read the 
    Label. I still..  need to get some leaves up.
  • ProudMumForever
    ProudMumForever Online Community Member Posts: 233 Empowering

  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,452 Championing
    They definitely look healthy to me @ProudMumForever! Much better than mine :D 
  • ProudMumForever
    ProudMumForever Online Community Member Posts: 233 Empowering
    Thank you both 🌵🌵
    @Tori_Scope haaa haa , now its youre turn to post 😉

  • SueHeath
    SueHeath Online Community Member Posts: 12,388 Championing
    You really do like your cacti and succulents @ProudMumForever ha ha x
  • ProudMumForever
    ProudMumForever Online Community Member Posts: 233 Empowering
    I went a bit mad @SueHeath lol 
  • Sparklebright63
    Sparklebright63 Scope Member Posts: 171 Contributor
    Hi to all,

    I have had a succulent plant bought for Mother's day think its an indoor 1 I will need to buy compost & a bigger pot that is if its kitty proof or not my kittens take a liking to flowers & plants for some strange reason anyone know why cus I sure don't.


    Sparklebright63.
  • ProudMumForever
    ProudMumForever Online Community Member Posts: 233 Empowering
    @Sparklebright63 hiya . I dont have any plants anywhere other than my kitchen window sills because of my cat .A lot of plants and flowers are toxic to cats , so its not worth the risk .
    If you are going to repot youre succulent then you need to buy a bag of compost suitable for succulents and cacti and also mix it 50/50 with suitable grit for drainage ,as they need plenty of drainage . Post a picture 😊 . 
  • Sparklebright63
    Sparklebright63 Scope Member Posts: 171 Contributor
    Hi Proud Mum Forever

    Thankyou for the info I have 2 kittens and they like plants 2 I went in the bathroom the other day and one of the kittens had knocked it over a bamboo plant some of the leaves were missing apparently but no adverse effects on the kittens.
    So I have now put it inside a big colourfull Jug I have had for years so they cannot get to it.

    Sparklebright63

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