Potting Plants

Last year's hanging basket of Aloe brevifolia & Sedum spurium 'Tricolor' didn't fair that well.  The sedum completely died out, and the aloe diminished.  So I decided to move the aloe to a pot and replace it with another plant.

I settled on an Agave lophantha 'Quadricolor'.  I may eventually need to add some type of border or cascading plants, though this species is known to pup quite a bit.  For now, I'll just wait and see how it settles in.

As I finished emptying out my pop-up greenhouse, I used the opportunity to finally get some specimens into pots.

Spekboom (Portulacaria afra)

Variegated Soap Aloe (Aloe maculata 'Variegata')

Haworthia coarctata

(replacing Senecio scaposus which struggled)

I also got my last Turk's Cap 'Big Momma' (Malvaviscus drummondii x arboreus 'Big Momma') into one of the garden beds.  The rest of the time was spent watering recent plantings and continuing the excavations.

Variegated Elephant Bush

A finally got around to planting one of my recent succulent purchases: Variegated Elephant Bush (Portulacaria afra 'variegata'). 

About a month ago, I bought the non-variegated form of the plant (which still waits for its planting).  While researching that plant online, I discovered the variegated form and immediately added it to my Gotta Get list.

Then a couple of weekends ago, while shopping during a rare rain shower, I found the variegated form and the perfect pot for it at the same nursery.