Between rain and vet visits, I haven't had much time to work in the garden in the past week. I got started on the to-do list stemming from last Friday's post on Saturday but I haven't finished anything worth sharing. I managed to fertilize our four citrus trees on Monday despite the rain and, after squeezing in an hour cleaning up the area inside and around my lath house yesterday, I had just enough time to replant a succulent container on our side patio.
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It was looking shabby and the metal wok I'd used as a container was decaying rapidly
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The wok's handles fell off 2 months ago and the pot itself was literally falling apart
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The base was made of stronger stuff and is in fine shape, if a little rusty. I inherited it and a prior metal pot from my mother-in-law almost 10 years ago. When her metal pot decayed, I replaced it with a large wok.
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This clay pot was in my lath house. It contained a begonia that had died back, probably due to the colder-than-usual temperatures we've had this winter. I potted up a piece of the begonia in the hope that I can bring it back to life but appropriated the pot because it fit the metal stand perfectly.
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I planted it with 3 clumps of Graptopetalum pachyphyllum from the wok. I added several succulents I had on hand in tiny 2-inch pots (selected for another project I never got around to) and added a few cuttings from my garden. It could use more rock to fill in among the succulents but I'll take care of that another day.
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Clockwise from the upper left are: noID Echeveria, Graptopetalum pachyphyllum, G. paraguayense, Graptosedum 'California Sunset', Graptoveria 'Fred Ives', and Sedum 'Little Missy'
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For a project that took little more than half an hour, it was satisfying to get it done after ignoring the decaying pot for well over two months.
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