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nancyjane_gardener

Starting jade plants

7 years ago

I moved to a street that is lawn and boxwood....exclusively!

We dug up our ugly, scraggely boxwood and planted just some allysum and lobelia for the time being. That has gotten quite ugly with the several heat waves we've had this year.

That will be coming up, and I've discovered a couple of beautiful jade plants that I've just sprinkled with water from time to time that look beautiful!

I need 12-14 starts to replace the boxwood/alysum in front of our property. I think I have enough branches of the jade to get these starts going.

Should I just plant in the ground (they would get light water), plant the starts in succulent mix and wait for rooting or?????

We will eventually be changing our lawn to succulents and Ca natives.

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  • 7 years ago

    Nancy, if you can, put some in the ground, the soil of which, if needed, improved with the C&S mix - they should be in active growth now in your neck of the woods, and indeed all along the coast south of you. The older ones, of which there are tausends, should be budding up now to flower next month for about a month.

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