You're bonkers, of course, but I still appreciate the pictures. That thing is one very full plant.

Never can get enough Jade pictures :)

More Jade than I can possibly stand? Why that sounds like a challenge! ;-)
I'm just thrilled that others enjoy this plant as much as I do.

Josh

Colleen: Bonkers, perhaps. I was supposed to go to the beach with hubby and our baby girl (black lab), but I caught a cold Wednesday and spent most of Thursday laid up in bed. I forced myself to take those pics, since I wasn't sure when I'd get another opportunity.

Josh: Wasn't meant as a challenge, but now I'm curious to see what you might come back with. :) I was just worried it would be too many pics for everyone's patience.

And now, seeing as how it's after midnight, and I still feel crappy, I'm off to bed.


*CG*

Holy jade bonsai heaven! You know there is a chunky trunk or two just waiting to be unleashed in there! Great flowers...

Tom

Holy cow....CG....it is beautiful.....wow...wow...
Thank you for taking the time and took those pictures and post to share with us. I don't see many jade's blooms. I enjoyed it a lot.
I hope your mother gets better very very soon.
MT

CG,
Loved the pictures.
Jades are one of my favorite plants, can never get tired looking at them.
Sharon

Quite the exposition. I can see how much you love your mom's plant. I loved being in San Diego for a while and seeing all the jades happily growing tall in the ground outisde. Thanks for the photo work.

Loved the sunlight through the plants. Those were the jades that I had to rip out for various reasons. Seems like everyone around here has them. I don't think you can kill them. Still don't know their name. However, all the cuttings I've taken from the original plants all look different. I suppose they'll all grow up and look like yours.

Penny: They are, without a doubt, absolutely everywhere in SoCal. Although they're not impossible to kill (I've managed it), they are pretty gosh darn hardy. To the best of my knowledge, the kind you find pretty much anywhere is just a regular old C. ovata. Some cuttings do seem to have a strange knack for variations from their parent plants and from each other. The one featured in these photos is just a C. ovata; I have pictures of other ovatas that aren't doing what this one is doing. Some of it is exposure to sunlight and cold. My mom has another jade that's just this gorgeous emerald green, with only a tiny bit of coloring on the one little part that catches direct sunlight. I have a few that used to get 100% full sun and turned a remarkable red-burgundy-brown color. It's fairly odd, some of the things jade will do. :)


*CG*

AWESOME...Thanks for all the great pictures. Really enjoyed them!

Tom: I am considering cutting the jade back, both to encourage even more growth and to get that growth to point upwards (since it's currently pointing sideways). I'm just not sure when I should do that. I figure I should at least wait until the flowers have died - let the pollinators do their thing, y'know?

MT: Thanks so much for the wishes for my mom. She's slowly getting better. She just managed to develop one infection after another (ear infection, sinus infection, etc.) and they all just kinda clobbered her all at the same time.


*CG*

The Jade that ate Chapparralgirl.

Wanton: Ha! Just about! :)