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is having fun -- and that this must be stopped.
What is this bush? It has thick succulent leaves, and spent most of the summer looking like a giant green bush on the east wall of my garage. Now it's flowering. Here is some detail of the leaves and flowers:
Any idea? Curious penguins want to know!
-- Badtux the Garden Penguin
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I don't know what it is but it is very stout. The size of the trunk is huge compared to the height.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a Crassula commonly known as a Jade Plant. Here in cold country it is a house plant and seldom seen blossomong like that.
ReplyDeleteNo clue, but I have one outside my door also.
ReplyDeleteYup, what montag said. I checked wikipedia- I've never seen one flowering like that- and the flowers match as well.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_plant
I think you got it, Montag. Looking at the info about it on the Internet, I see why it's doing so well -- it's in a fairly dry well-drained spot (under an eave/gutter that routes rain water elsewhere), it gets direct sunshine from the east to get its daily sunshine quota, but it's on the east wall of the garage under that big overhang so doesn't get the most intense sunshine from noon or the west that can burn the leaves. And talk about an easy plant to propagate... it dropped some of its leaves, and now they're rooting in the dirt around the base of the plant!
ReplyDeleteLockwood, like I said above, it appears that conditions were perfect to have the plant flower like that. My neighbor has one of these by his door, but it doesn't get as much sunshine there and only has a few flower clusters.
- Badtux the Gardening Penguin
That's really pretty. And are those roses growing in the bottom right next to it?
ReplyDeleteNo, that plant to the right is Mandevilla Red Riding Hood, which like the Jade Plant is a warm-weather plant. The rose bush is on the other side of the sidewalk from the two Mandevilla and the Jade Plant, and has huge long-lasting pink roses that slowly fade to white over the course of about three weeks before finally losing their petals, unlike most roses, which only last a few days. One of these days I'd like to figure out just what kind of rose bush that is, because it's a rather nice one...
ReplyDelete- Badtux the Gardening Penguin
You title concerned me. I thought you were having W as a house guest for the holidays.
ReplyDeleteCheers!
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