Dean (amanzed) growing in NE Los Angeles

[Jens]

A nice selection of plants you are growing. Just keep watching them closely and they will be fine.
Thanks for the pictures.

[Cynthia]

I just LUV all the flowering cacti you have, especially the Neoporteria floccosa! Looking at all the different flowering cacti on this forum, I never knew there are so many varieties and botanists are creating more with hybrids. I just don't have the space to put them all, where do you put your cacti Dean?

[amanzed]

I just don't have the space to put them all, where do you put your cacti Dean?

Oh, well, I'm afraid I'm not a terribly good example at present. My backyard is overfull with plants, at least the deck and long driveway. Right now it looks a bit like an absentminded artist's studio…not far from the truth…I'm an artist, I'm absentminded…the only conceit is calling the messy part a "studio".

I aspire to clean it up to the point where the deck & enclosed driveway looks like a small, eccentric nursery. I fear I have too many plants for that part of the backyard to look beautiful or designed.

[Cynthia]

Oh well....as long as they make you happy =)

[amanzed]

The plants entrance me. They captivate me. They put in a state which might be too obsessive to call happy…but yes, they make me happy.

I believe I'll get it in shape. It'll still resemble a nursery more than a landscape, but then again…I love wandering around a nursery.

[Jens]

The plants entrance me. They captivate me. They put in a state which might be too obsessive to call happy…but yes, they make me happy.

I know that feeling, Dean!
As you get more of them your heart won´t bleed as much with one or the other plant perishing away. That´s a good reason to get some more cacti, don´t you think?
It will get much less anoying as soon as you made up a suitable way to keep them savely .

Keep on growing,
Jens

[hoteidoc]

Definitely agree with what both you & Jens are saying I think I've finally hit the saturation point, where, with the new 14 hr/day job, several sets of seedling in & out of the propagators, & a couple of 100 plants, I can now no longer "hover", & when I loose a plant (fairly rarely), I've lived on CF so long now, whatever lesson people keep trying to hammer home, just kicks in & it's "pay closer attention to what the plant really needs.
But as most the "serious" growers have said -- Whatever goes on -- Keep Growing

[amanzed]

Hi Jens & hoteidoc: Jens, nice picture of your benches! Is that bubble wrap on the walls? Or a honeycomb design polycarbonate? Interesting because I've used bubble wrap as a (very) informal diffuser. And what are those blue carrying flats? I've seen black nursery flats used for carrying, but they're much more flimsy than those blue flats in your photo.

Progress! I removed a giant wheelbarrow full of old potting soil and a trash bin full of broken and worn-out containers. Now my potting area looks much better. Still much work to do, but the work week is upon us.

[amanzed]

Lobivia haageana
2012 ex Miles Anderson, Miles2Go.com

[Cynthia]

Dean.....the blue crates come from grocery stores where fruit and vegetables were transported in them. If you go to supermarkets and ask them do they have any, they will probably give them to you for free.