Loving 'Perle Von Nurnberg'! Good finds!

Why, thank you. I'm particularly pleased myself. :)

*CG*

And so you should be - I would love to get my hand a royal flush! Very nice plants.

Nice finds! I may go on the hunt today as well! I for sure need some pots!

~Erin~

Erin, if I was reasonably close to where you are, I'd say you could borrow some of my pots. I keep a collection at hand for just such an occasion - bringing home new babies. :)

I was reading in another thread not too long ago that Wal-Mart has all but decimated their garden centers to make room for all their christmas vomit...er, I mean, all that christmas stuff. The two Wal-Marts near me certainly have, and it's just pitiful how utterly neglected their plant selections are, particularly their succulents. Be wary. (I'm usually not terribly impressed with Home Depot, either, but this time I just really lucked out.)

*CG*

Nice ! love life's little finds !

Yay for new babies! You picked up some awesome ones! I dropped in HD the other day and picked up a few myself :-) I got a split rock, didn't see the purple though! I also had to bring home an "ET's Fingers" Gollum Jade, and a "Wandering Jew" (I had been looking for one for quite sometime, this one was actually reasonably priced!)Then of course I didn't have small pots for the two so I had to go grab a couple lol

I was eyeing a particularly cute Gollum, but it was potted in a nice pot, which jacked the price up by about $10. There were quite a lot of really, really nice arrangements, but they were too expensive for me.

Speaking of pots, I'm trying to decide how to arrange my new lovlies. My first few attempts at container gardening were less than successful, so I've been keeping most of my plants as solitaires; I want to try putting some of these new little guys together, but I'm not sure which ones, and in which container.

Here's what I have: a yellow container and a blue one.

I'm thinking about putting the Baby's Toes, Anacampseros and Lithops together in the yellow dish...

...and the two split stones in the blue one.

I'm not sure, though. I wonder if the colors of the plastic pots are throwing my eye off.

Thoughts, anyone?

*CG*

Apparently Perle von Nurnberg has mealys. *grrrr!* Time to isolate and swab with alcohol. Hopefully they're not in the roots...

CG,

Surface mealies are not the same mealies as root mealies, but the treatment is remarkably the same. Make sure you use something safe for the Crassulaceae - either Diazinon or Malathion harms that plant family.

Cactus,

I used some isopropyl alcohol on a Q-tip. I don't think it's hurt the Perle. Does this sound ok, or do you recommend something else?

*CG*