Green Scene Booty

No, not that kind of booty! Think pirate booty, only for gardeners.

Green Scene at the Fullerton Arboretum looked to be another success judging from the number of members lined up before the 9 a.m. opening. I enjoyed seeing all those smiling faces full of expectation and willingness to spend their hard earned tax refund on more plants they don't need but must have.

Here are a few of my selections. The little aeonium was irresistible. It's flat as a pancake and needs shade.

Fullerton Beautiful's Annual Garden Tour is next weekend. You can get tickets by going to the Horticulture Dept. at Fullerton College to pay $10 and get a map of the houses on the tour. Proceeds benefit the arboretum and various projects in Fullerton.

Kalanchoe, again

On a very rainy day last year the Fullerton Arboretum had a cactus and succulent show. Cold and wet were no match for my current zeal for something new for the garden. One of my purchases was a Kalanchoe Gastonis bonnieri
or Donkey Ear Kalanchoe. I potted it up with another variety of Kalanchoe and a variegated Aeonium. It grew to about 4 ft. tall, including the flower stalk and gave me several plantlets from the tips of the main leaves, as seen at the left.


Once the plantlets have a bit of root coming from the base they are easily pulled off the mother plant to be potted up on their own.
Here is one that I planted a couple of months ago.

There were several others that I added to pots here and there around the garden, but this one, sharing space on a partly shaded iron rack with some cactus I bought at the 99 cent store seems to be doing the best. It's dressed with this very cool black pea sized stone I got from Lowe's last year. The garden guy told me they ordered it by mistake. I bought 10 bags.





Next project is to try to grow some from seed. Patience is a gardener's friend so I resisted snipping off the flower heads in hopes of a future bounty of Donkey Ears. Hee Haw.