Well, I guess it was inevitable. After having proclaimed here that I have never burned my Sansevieria outdoors, I've suceeded in scorching a couple of them. Nothing that will kill them, but there are definite bronzed areas on some leaves. Just goes to show what a cocky attitude is capable of.

I still have much more trouble with squirels than sun. The little buggers keep on uprooting my plants - not much damage except constant repotting. I don't understand - the little buggers will dig up plants randomly, and will sometimes even gravitate towards the really prickley ones. How they don't lose an eye is beyond me.

All the Sansevierias have started pushing new growth. Most of it is still underground (bulging pots tell the story), or just breaking the surface now. I'll have great growth on the spoon leafed varieties I have, and the Variegates all look to be pushing variegated growth. The variegated masoniana is still rooting, so I don't expect to get any new growth this season, but the variegated hallii has a 5" new growth that is spectacular. Much better than last year's growth.

I've been feeding heavy (for Sans) - about 1/2 strength liquid fertilizer every other watering. Other than the squirels and burning, it looks like a good year.

I was even successful in trading some Sansevieria here on Gardenweb, but the Sansevieria folks don't seem interested in what I have. I've traded off all of my excess for the season, including the S. "wananga station', S. ballyii, S. sufruitcosa, S. hallii, a zillion S. parva, and some assorted S. trifasciata ('Daria', 'Black coral', 'silver queen' and others). I might have a couple more excess plants available in late fall.

Joe 'a productive summer so far' DeRosa