Well, all the plants are doing fine (though some are a tad bit bronzed from the sun). The only one with any real damage is the S. hallii variegated - the new growth has a large scab on the top surface of the leaf. I hate when that happens, but the plant is fome and growing (if disfigured).

Many of my Sansevierias are staring to send out new growths - this seems early to me. I don't think I';ve ever had my S. masoniana start a new growth before early September in the past, and the S. hallii usually wait until they are indorrs before the new growth breals the soil line. I have gorth showing on both of these, as well as on my S. sp. 'Kenya giant spoon leaf', S. sp 'Kenya dwarf spoon leaf), S. parva ( no suprise here), the S. parva 'white variegated' is sending out a couple of shiits (it took over 5 years to start sending shoots, now it can't seem to stop), the variegated S. cylindrica pautula, hallii, masoniana and kirkii pulchra have growth that is close to, but not through, the soil line yet (any day now),all the S. trifasciata clones (not too suprising), S. sp 'Malawi Bat', S. kirkii kirkii, and S. kirkii pulchra. This is pretty unusual, but I am not complaining. It looks like the S. cylinrica cylindrica is taking a year off (it flowered this year) so I don't expect a new growth to break the soil line until spring, although a new growth is just starting to form. This should take at least a month to start elongating, then all winter to grow the 2 feet it seems to need before it starts a new plant.

This has been a good summer so far - let's see if I can keep things going until fall.

Squirrels have continued to be a garden problem - even digging up some of the Sansevierias this year, but all the affected plants weren't very valuable or damaged much.Sometimes they seem to kile the new plants that have just been potted, but this year they went after a couple of big trifasciata tytpes that are years old, with over 30 plants in the pots. They were very efficient in removing most of the soil, but suprisingly did very little rhizome damage. The plants sprang back great, anbd in fact, may be growing more due to the root disturbande now. Sometrhing to consider next year....

Joe 'I learn something new every day' DeRosa