In the last couple weeks I've impulse purchased a couple plants. The first one is Kalanchoe tomentosa 'Chocolate Soldier'. How can you not like this fuzzy little guy with such a strong name? He's just adorable. I've got the panda plant, which is identical except mostly green, and just had to have the Chocolate Soldier variety.
I also had to get Kalanchoe blosfeldiana 'Sarah'. It's the typical Kalanchoe you see sold everywhere, but I just love the bright red-orange blooms. It's such a delightful happy plant. I enjoy seeing it's prolific blooms when I wake up.
I recently obtained a few plants from my mom during my last visit. One of my very first plants was an Airplane Plant (Chlorophytum comosum 'Variegatum') which I named Fred. It was a baby of one of my mom's plants. I took him to college, he survived the terrible Rochester, New York winters, and even the super hot road trip back to Texas, but when I moved into my own apartment, he died from lack of sun, while he lived in the center of my apartment, because I was too lazy to buy hooks to hang my macrame outside! Anyway, my mom gave me another one, and this one is thriving in his new home.
She also gave me a couple Wandering Jew (Tradescantia zebrina) cuttings and a cutting of something I haven't identified. They're all three rooting in water until I can pot them up somewhere.
While my mom and I were talking about each other's plant situations, she mentioned how she was going to pretty much take on stalk of her Aeonium, and then toss the rest. I couldn't let her plants go to waste so I offered to take the mother plant home.
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