You weed is a kalanchoe :) Loved the pics! I saw a lot of zone pushing too and that was totally awesome. Was it nice and warm there?

Oh I forgot to say that, Kalanchoe, thanks!! Do you think I should put it in a pot today? It's had since Tues AM to dry. Whole stem or try some individual leaves too?

It WAS warm, short sleeves in the daytime, long at night although I'm a total lightweight on temp, plenty of practically naked people all around at all times. We did walk down to the hot tub at our B'n'B at 2 AM wearing nothing but towels and I wasn't cold at all.

It's hard to take it all in, even at walking speed. Probably walked right by some really cool stuff, and might have thought some of the big, cool plants that I have as babies back at home were wild things I've never heard of.

The thing that keeps sticking in my mind is the Pothos with giant and mature leaves, and Syngonium with mature form leaflet leaves growing up the trees. No idea that was possible in NOLA.

Wish there were more actual residents of NOLA using this forum... I don't think they would have many questions, just answers!

I would just stick it in the pot. Did I send you any of those? It's one that produces offsets from the leaves, so soon you'll have plenty of babies.

haha that's what I keep thinking about with your pics too! I never knew that was possible in NO either. So cool. makes me stronger in my resolve to try some things vertically!

Cool, will do, TY! These leaves do look and feel a lot like a clump you sent. Definitely alive but struggling. And, um, if this plant will grow in a crack like that, I've obviously and of course been adding water too often. The big ones of these plants I saw were full of tall dangling red flowers around the pool. If the sun ever comes back out, that should help too. Holy moly, please go away clouds!

Oh yeah, I don't water mine much. They bloom then die. Meanwhile a crop of babies springs up for the year, then it blooms and dies... cycle goes on and on lol.

Oh, that's helpful to know, Thanks! Definitely sounds like a cool plant in action as well as appearance.

"Mother-of-thousands" it is called. Love that plant. I'd like to try my hand at the flowering kalanchoes.

NOLA is my kind of town! Such gorgeous plantings. I grew up in the tropics, and my grandparents' had that giant pothos growing up one side of it - all the way to the roof. It was beautiful.

I used to try getting that gorgeous, full, cascading effect in my windowboxes. Never totally successful, and the last few years my windowboxes have been used for food. Maybe I'll try again this year - your NOLA pics have inspired me! There used to be a forum here called (I think) "Gardening in Small Spaces". There were a number of people there who had or wanted New Orleans style gardens because of the (mostly narrow) small spaces they had. I don't see the forum any more, but it was quite interesting.

This is probably the best effect I've gotten in a windowbox:

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This was my last one:

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I want them so full and lush that the windowbox disappears!

Thanks for the NOLA trip, purpleinopp!

PV

"Mother-of-thousands" it is called. Love that plant. I'd like to try my hand at the flowering kalanchoes.

NOLA is my kind of town! Such gorgeous plantings. I grew up in the tropics, and my grandparents' had that giant pothos growing up one side of it - all the way to the roof. It was beautiful.

I used to try getting that gorgeous, full, cascading effect in my windowboxes. Never totally successful, and the last few years my windowboxes have been used for food. Maybe I'll try again this year - your NOLA pics have inspired me! There used to be a forum here called (I think) "Gardening in Small Spaces". There were a number of people there who had or wanted New Orleans style gardens because of the (mostly narrow) small spaces they had. I don't see the forum any more, but it was quite interesting.

This is probably the best effect I've gotten in a windowbox:

{{gwi:1023}}

This was my last one:

{{gwi:1024}}

I want them so full and lush that the windowbox disappears!

Thanks for the NOLA trip, purpleinopp!

PV

Double posting apparently a GW server error problem - sorry about that!

PV

Love it, Pvick! The fullest window boxes I ever made were at my first apartment in 1999 lol. This year I am also aiming for full and lush.

Not your fault, PV, thanks for the pics - your planters are lovely! Looks like you're up pretty high.

Some "trailers" you might like, variegated Vinca, Bacopa, Lobelia, several Tradescantias, Tahitian bridal veil, thyme, string-of-pearls plant (might need a cache pot so it doesn't drown,)

Installing some plants around the edges much more horizontally can cause plants that would otherwise stand straight up to trail over the sides, like Begonias, Pelargoniums...

The planter can make its' own spot of shade for some of these, and one side or end is probably a lot sunnier than the other.

I think this post made me dream 2 nights ago that I had a huge balcony which was on the 19th or 20th floor of a building. For some reason I decided to make myself a hill, which was about 3 stories high. Then I spent the rest of the dream freaking out about the weight of all that soil and complaining that if I rolled down it, I would simply launch off the balcony lol.

Some annuals like nasturtium can also make good trailers if you have the right climate.

Whoa that's a wild dream! I ended up putting that Kalanchoe in front in the ground. Trying not to water it, the ground was pretty moist...