Sea Ranch Flowers

Sea Ranch was in full bloom on a sunny day in March. So many field and wildflowers.

Mushrooms

I love wee little mushrooms! An iPhone Olloclip with a 10x macro lens makes them even more gorgeous and larger than life. All of these were at Sea Ranch back in March.

Repot Fail

I've had this plant for at least a decade and every time it grows longer, I just loop it back up on top of itself. It had grown into and around a seashell hanger so I never dared to repot it and since it always looked good, I just left it.


It started to drop yellow leaves and I decided to repot it. I took it down and cut it out of the seashell hanger. I couldn't untangle it but I did cut off a bunch. Over the next month strands were dying either because I cut them or due to stress. I slowly just kept cutting off the dying part and it got to the point where there were only a few short strands (from the 12-20 foot tendrils) left.


So I rooted some of the cutting and replanted them to help restart it. We begin again!

The whole tangled mess

What was left.

But new sprouts!!

The next generation.

Muir Woods

A hike in Muir Woods this spring was just wonderful. There were so many flowers and fungus looking happy and gorgeous.

Davis Arboretum

Back in March I finally made it out to the Davis Arboretum. It's about a four mile walk all the way around but the plants are just fabulous! There are signs on almost all of them so you can see what they all are. I would highly suggest heading out and seeing some great plants!

Splitting Succulents

I've seen all sorts of pins on Pinterest about splitting succulents and I've done it before but more in a "I broke something off and stuck it in the dirt in the off change it would root" kind of way.

So I thought I would finally take a stab at doing it intentionally. A bunch of my plants were getting leggy and needed to be repotted, split or cut down. I cut everything that was too long and pulled leaves off then trimmed the remaining stalk. I laid them out so that their cut ends could dry out - about a week.

A few leaves dried out right away so those won't work. But many others survived. I just laid them on a tray of damp cactus soil and lo and behold they started sprouting! Some are sprouting with full plants while others are just shooting off roots. Either way, I have a little factory going. I'll update as I can!

Drying out the cut ends.

A whole lot of aloe that was over grown.

Tiny little roots and a wee little plant!