Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Dancing Girl Now, 1 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
Jackie,

I don't know the whole history about Callaway Gardens and less about Hills and Dales (first time I ever saw them). I haven't been to Callaway in a few years so maybe I'll venture down there this year. It's just a 1.5 to 2 hour drive one way. Easy, right? Not like the time I took the family to Bellingrath Gardens and Dauphin Island (around Mobile, AL) in one day (it's about a 5 to 6 hour drive one way). My daughters will never let me live that one down.

How many pets do you have? Sounds like you need to stock up instead of weekly trips. Maybe you feeding them too good. We go to Pet Smart once every 6 weeks or so and get a large bag of dry food. Table scraps and some treats along the way.

Place your CL leaf in a cup of a mix of good potting soil and Perlite, moisten, and invert a plastic see through cup over it. That should help a lot. I hate throwing out good leaves but it's got to the point that I throw most of them out lately. I'll return to propagating this summer into fall.

This is the way I am having to grow a lot of mine right now - under makeshift humidity domes (taliensis under a sponge cake cover). It works but it's a pain.