Tropicals & Tender Perennials: "The Epis Are Coming, The Epis Are Coming!! 2007", 0 by Happenstance

Happenstance wrote:
Hey sorry for being so tardy in getting back here. :-) Just lotsa gardening and other things to do around here. We did get down to the old house/garden in early Feb and found that nothing had been damaged in the deep freeze that hit all of Northern California in January.

Love your buds Clare! Lots of pretties to come for sure! Karen, ditto on the ugh........I've never lost so many succulents as I did this year here at the new house. Partly the cold, but also they didn't have time to establish themselves and get strong after being put in ground around Nov 1st. It's a learning experience! (Yeah, right.)

I do have lots of buds on the potted Epis I brought up from the old garden, the plants themselves are a little ratty looking from being ignored since October. I do grow them "hard", but they are rattier looking than usual. I hope to find a permanent home for them here in some of the big pots that have been emptied. Am working on a place that they can live happily all year long without being moved around. The trip in the truck and just slinging the pots around moving them does a pruning job on them.

My Epi oxypetalum plants that I moved up here in the fall with us, took a major hit from the cold temps. Hindsight tells me I should have left them in the old garden for the winter. They will survive, but I had to prune at least half of all the growth from these 5' tall plants. Started some cuttings from the trimmings and time will tell whether they will root after being cold for so long. We had low to mid 20's every night for a couple of weeks.

A couple of bud pics, first one is the white.