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« Frost in the city tonight: Bring your plants in | Main | Birds and the Garden » November 14, 2007The revival of the old Jade Plant
There is something appealing about the Jade plant. It is also called the friendship tree as well as the money tree. It is considered to be the top feng shui remedy for wealth. Jade plant makes a good house plant, because of its evergreen, succulent nature. It can survive 10 - 20 days without watering in the summer and up to a month in the winter. It supposed to produce beautiful little flowers that I have yet to see, on mine. I always associated Jade plant with some Asian features, because of the Chinese gemstone, Jade. Jade is actually a native of South Africa. My relatively small jade plant did remarkably well for a few years. I thought it was dead when I was away for an extended period this past summer. The plant was left outside under the red Japanese maple in front of the house and I forgot all about it. A few weeks ago while bringing some plants indoors, I found that it had some tiny leaves, growing in opposing pairs along the branches. I brought it indoors and watered it, adding some liquid fertilizer to the water and made sure that it was well-drained. It now shows signs of being fully revived and becoming healthy again. I am not sure if the leaves will get as big as they were before, although I think it looks "pretty neat" right now.
Posted by Pat Feinstein Commentskaren anne | November 16, 2007 5:23 AM link I never had one. It must be a lovely shrub. Thank you for sharing. pat | November 16, 2007 11:31 AM link Jade plant? Why is it that I don't now have one! I used to have one! Another plant for the indoor garden wish list! Thanks for reminding me of that plant! Layanee | November 18, 2007 7:29 AM link Yes - you need to get one. I walked by a shop in the East Side here and saw a relatively big one with flowers on it too. pat | November 18, 2007 9:32 AM link Post a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. |
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On the topic of Plants Revived By Complete Neglect Or Worse :-), I will add a pittosporum tobira I used to have in my yard in CA.
I can't find a good picture of one on the web, they all make it look like a lovely plant. In reality, at least the variety I had, they are a tough leaved, not very attractive shrub.
Mine had gotten very rangy over the years. They can't be pruned effectively, because the plant normally grows in an open fashion, with rather thick branches, and cutting it back just leaves open spaces or obvious growth from the pruned end.
So I decided it's time was up, and sawed all its branches off, so only a stump was left in the ground. I meant to come back and dig out the roots, but it was in an infrequented part of the yard, and by the time I went back to do that, months later, it had regrown, into a nicely shaped, dense bush. I tried the same thing on another one, and the same thing happened.
How they survived this, I do not know. Maybe it's a variation on pruning a lilac, where you have to cut a third of the plant back to the base for three years to shape it up.