Dawn
Gardening is one amazing hobby. There is so much you can learn from gardening. Everyday you stand amazed at the way nature works. This is my kalanchoe fedtschenkoi tricolor putting out tiny baby plants from mature leaves. These plants have variegated leaves, the green leaf is edged with shades of , white and pink. I usually take off the older leaves when they lose color and turn pinkinsh grey, these them are laid on some moist ( not wet) soil and left in the shade. Within a week they produce a number of tiny plants at their edges and sometimes at the stem.
Begonias, various other varieties of kalanchoes, snake plants, African violets, hoyas, ivy, pepromias and succulents can be reproduces this way. Gardening doesn’t have to be a expensive. You can have hundreds of plants by using various techniques of reproduction.
Hoyas, beogonias, peperomias and various other succulents are so expensive even though they can be reproduced easily. It takes more labor and love but it can be done.
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Gardening is an act of labor and love, right?
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Nature always astonishes us with its miracles , right?
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I totally agree with you. I’ve been gardening for many years, but I always learn and discover something new.
That is the fun part about gardening.
Gardening is truly an amazing hobby one could have. I am glad that you continuously share photos of your garden.
Good to see you Sharon. It is indeed a great hobby , I love sharing pictures from my garden. 😀
Gardening is very therapeutic for sure.
Absolutely Carol , I am in total agreement with you on that.
Gardening is indeed an act of labor and love, this is beautifully put! I have only once reproduced a kind of cactus this way. Eventually, only the new one survived so I am glad I did it.
Almost all succulents and cacti can be reproduced this way.
Not really for me! I can’t seem to grow anything. So nope.
That is what most people think until they try and have their first success.
Gardening is a nice hoby for me, dear friend …. only I deal more with vegetables … I don’t have much garden so there is less space for flowers
I can understand that, I battle with space myself.
Who was it who said that gardening is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration?!
Those leaves are presumably from a plant that is native to tropical forests, where leaves that fall can quickly give rise to new growth in warm damp soils.
They are succulents so I presume they belong to arid regions.
Hm! That is interesting, then. I wonder what their their natural life cycle is? Worth investigating, maybe!
i have no gardening skills for many many reasons. But I love seeing the work and results of others!
I understand Doc, not everyone has the patience nor the interest for gardening.
that is very true, I have neither!
Mum often started plants by growing from leaves as well
Your mother must have been a great gardener Pamela.
Yes, Mum had green thumbs and taught me a lot, I miss her.
I am sure you do, we always miss our mum’s no matter how old we get, more so if they have been our mentors in things we love to do.