New backyard Beds

Minime8484 · Post by **Minime8484** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:17 am

Absolutely gorgeous, Tony!
Very well grown and landscaped - some day I'll have to visit your own little Botanical Garden!!

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:52 pm

Thanks everyone!

hoteidoc · Post by **hoteidoc** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:03 am

Great plants, Tony! I try not to dream of 9 mos. of summer

. I'm more in Daiv's environ except probably wetter

. The Aloe arculeata caught my eye because I had just "discovered" this Aloe a couple of weeks ago & it got included in an order from SuccSeed 2 days ago. Using "baggie" method - any tips or caveats?
Peter

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 3:23 pm

hoteidoc wrote:Great plants, Tony! I try not to dream of 9 mos. of summer . I'm more in Daiv's environ except probably wetter . The Aloe arculeata caught my eye because I had just "discovered" this Aloe a couple of weeks ago & it got included in an order from SuccSeed 2 days ago. Using "baggie" method - any tips or caveats?
Peter

Thanks Peter.
The A. aculeata was a few years old when I got it from the HBG, so I dont have any seed growing experience with this species yet.
But I have grown a handful of Aloes from seed and I have had success starting them with the baggie method and then a week or two after germination, totally exposing them and misting them from then on.
My own personal experience with growing most non cacti succulents has been that this method works the best for me here, but Im still learning and experimenting...

jamesfe · Post by **jamesfe** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:26 am

Tony, you have done some fantastic work on your yard. It makes me wish that Michigan was more like California so that I could attempt a project like that. I thoroughly enjoyed your pictures.TFS

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:36 pm

Thanks James!
IT sure makes it easy when you can just plant them in the ground and let them do their thing.
Really the only concerns are the occasional wet, frosty mornings and gophers.

CactusBoss · Post by **CactusBoss** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:27 am

this is the BEST cactus garden(that isn't a public one) that i have seen!!!(pictures of course)

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 2:35 pm

Thanks!

Joel143 · Post by **Joel143** » Thu Nov 22, 2012 2:25 am

Checking back in...always enjoy returning to your post. Any chance of update pics to see how things are going? Bet everything have exploded since first starting the project.

Saxicola · Post by **Saxicola** » Thu Nov 22, 2012 4:10 am

Tony, didn't know about this thread until Joel bumped it. Now I can picture things much better. When I was over you told me about the work you did, but without seeing how it looked before it was hard to relate. Really impressive taking it from that to what you have now!

Joel143 · Post by **Joel143** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 7:27 am

Just checking in to see how your garden is growing....if any additions or changes. Your thread with great transformation pics really gave me ideas. Any chance of more pics to see how your garden is going?

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:20 pm

Joel143 wrote:Just checking in to see how your garden is growing....if any additions or changes. Your thread with great transformation pics really gave me ideas. Any chance of more pics to see how your garden is going?

Yes, I will post more before and after shots when I get a chance. I haven't made many new additions in quite some time, but I have made a few subtractions!

Joel143 · Post by **Joel143** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:31 pm

Subtractions oh no. Hope nothing bad took place whereby you lost plants. Figured some cactus may have outgrew their area of the garden.

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:20 pm

Joel143 wrote:Subtractions oh no. Hope nothing bad took place whereby you lost plants. Figured some cactus may have outgrew their area of the garden.

Well for starters, Cereus peruvianus in all of its forms has been practically banished forever. I still have one monstrose plant, but it wont be around much longer, Aloe dichotoma grew to 6 feet tall in three years so I traded it to out2searob for a three foot tall, 8 headed pachypodium lamerii that will remain in a pot.
There will probably be a lot more moving out in the next year.

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:13 pm

I will try and put together some before and after shots someday but I just dont have the time right now.
Here are some random images of the backyard a few weeks ago after an all night soaking.