Her plants are always so special, and she grows them very well, each one perfect. Norma

Don't know how you left Petra's with only 2 plants. She does have some wonderful things to see!

What size is your pot?

The pot is essentially the same size as those 4" plastic square pots. I took the plant out of one of those, and it fit directly into this pot without having to break up the root ball. I then just filled in the sides of the square with a little pumice since the pot is circular. The diameter of the 'trunk' is a little over an inch.

If I had more bench space (and money), I would have come back with a car full! So many great, well grown plants for sale! Anyway, this gives me an excuse to go back sooner rather than later.

For those of you who've never taken a look, you really should check out her site: Rare Succulents.

You'll have to work on the space and $$, cause this habit can be addicting.

Loved poking around the shelves in the out of the way corners, found some interesting stuff. Too bad she would part with any of it. Was there any more talk of her relocating?

Well, I'm trying to talk my parents into giving me some space at their place to build some raised beds. It is a 45 minute drive from my apartment, but at least then I could bed out some big stuff, which would give me more bench space (and would do wonders for those plants). Although, they rent out that house when they aren't in town, so it might not be accessible for a few weeks at a time. Still, I'm, sure I could find some plants of mine that don't need more attention than that. I've also applied for a plot at out local community garden, but the waiting list is very, very long: it says on average I still have more than a year to go!

She had a less than pleasant neighbor, who forced her to scale back what was at the house. She ended up getting some greenhouse space about 40 minutes from where she lives. I got the impression that she was pretty frustrated not being able to tend to those plants everyday like she could if they were at her house. But, it prevented her from having to reduce the size of her collection, so i guess that is how things will stay.

Have you ever been to her growing range? She might be the only person I know of who's winter growers bench could rival yours!

By growing range I meant her greenhouse space. All I saw was what she has at the house.

I just recieved a ceraria from Petra in the mail.it looks extactly like yours,same size.I don't know if I can take this reading about yous going to these places much longer.really envy. joe

Joe: I'm pretty sure I saw your plant when I visited. She had a few set aside that were already sold, among them a nice Ceraria. Honestly, I think yours was the pick of the litter. It seemed to have a more uniform set of branches, whereas mine has sort of a hole in one place...