But they were on sale!

Darn that HD on the way home from work...

Oh wow that's a lovely lot of plants. Aren't they lucky you were passing? Colleen

Your HD takes a lot better care of their plants than ours do. Our HD plants are almost always scraggly.

Trust me I did pick through to find the best. If you buy them soon after they arrive and before they decline they are usually ok. I tried to find some that were native to S. Africa hoping they could take intense sun.
C

I'm glad you were able to find some nice plants. Maybe the Altman's distribution center used by your area takes better care of their plants.

I've been at our local HD when the plants arrived from Altman's. Believe me, they came off the truck looking scraggly! LOL!

Not the best place to purchase but mostly the plants I have bought from them survived. I just liked the variety this year, a good assortment of mimicry plants and some really cute succulents.

It's a great way to get a large collection going without investing a lot of money. At least if you kill at $1.79 plant it doesn't hurt so much.

Newton - you've been bad! Great collection

The faucaria in the back looks like my F. tuberculosa - 5years old now - and one of my favorates. I give them morning sun only. My Fenestraria gets sun to about 12 or 1pm and sorry to say the Haworthias really do not need much - better to have bright light (summer) or morning sun (winter)!

Our Lowes has been getting some nice succulents the last couple of years. HD doesn't seem to have a good selection of them. Maybe this year they will add more to their inventory.
Ric picked these up for me a few days ago.
Split Rock Pleiospilos nelii
Echeveria Dondo (in bloom)
Crassula perforata variegata
Kalanchoe tomentosa cv. Chocolate Soldier
There is a Kalanchoe tomentosa Panda Plant on that tray that was bought several months ago and I just divided it and got 4 more plants from it.

The choc soldier is looking like a great plant - what about a bit closer pic! Would love to see it from close!

I really like it. It is fuzzy with the brown edges.
I want to do some containers this spring with these and some others I have been collecting.

very very nice - I think it would look great!

LOL-- I too have been bad at HD-- but I am even badder than you Newtonsthird-- I took a seasonal job in the garden dept as "plant specialist" so guess who had the nasty task of opening all those Altmans boxes ;) I brought home around 9. Our store and the one in Springfield Mo (where I went to a meeting) has had a nice selection of aloes and both stores just got one each of a beautifully variegated Gasteria (I bought both) the tag says G. liliputana but I think it is more similar to G. batesiana. Yesterday, well we got a new shipment of Phalenopsis.... the new garden plant varieties that are coming are going to be great too-I should just sign my check over to them...

LOL Hillbilly_Gran, I have been thinking of applying for one of those jobs, too. I know a good bit of my paycheck would go towards plants, too. I was at the Phila Flower Show today and have took a ton of pics, hopefully they will be good and I can take you all on a little tour of the show. I picked up a few more succulents while I was there. So hard to say no to them when they are sitting out there looking so pretty, just saying "Take me home".
Newtonsthirdlaw, I think I forgot to say what nice plants you got. Really they look like they needed a home.

I too have the bug. I bought three plants last week at Lowes. I bought a beautiful Aloe harlana and put it in my basement. Forgot to check the soil. Went down to check on it a few days later and it was rotting. Boo Hoo!!!!! I also bought a P. nelli and Opuntia subulata.
Gary

After seeing these flowers today I remembered what made me want to buy these plants. Wonder what they will look like in a year from now?

LOL HollyAnnS-- I went to the Arkansas flower and garden show and bought succulents there too. My bestest plant buddy and I also spent the day before the show shopping nurseries in Little Rock-- so I have bunches of new babies-- more than I needed for sure. Kroger had cymbidium orchids on clearance-- needed that too. I have almost out grown the new addition to the gh and it isn't even spring yet! I am going to post some of my aloe pictures online for you all to help me Id them (some day soon I hope), since some had no tags. Gary, I bought the O.subulata too, love the red on it, yours is larger than mine tho.

edited to say--Love your Pleiospilos N3rd!!!

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I repotted the first plants I bought but still need to place the group I posted on here. Two more pics, my royal flush with rocks and a batch of lithops I bought at HD last week (I bought 6 last week and 9 yesterday).

So cute, so hard for me to keep alive.

I have never had any of the Split Rocks before didn't even know what they looked like when they bloomed. Very pretty.

Holly, I have the chocolate soldier in a small pot, and it doesn't seem to want to spread--just growing straight up like two stems. Wonder if I should top it? I love this little plant. It really does do its best to grow.
Carol

I was thinking of pinching back my tomentosa Panda Plant. Since I divided it up, it looks a bit tall and thin. I was wondering if I could root the top if I pinched it back and if the plant would spread out a bit. This is the first time for this plant so I wasn't sure how it would look and if it would work. Any advice would be welcome.
Here are the two little pots I picked up at the show. I thought they were both pretty but I have no ID's for any of these. Anyone know what the taller spiky red plants are?

Gary, if I were you I'd take that rotted Aloe harlana right back to Lowe's because they had to have overwatered it before you got it. A few days down in your basement shouldn't have caused it to rot like that.

Yes, I know Nancy, I should have. I already took it out of the pot and tried to save it. I did get the P. nelli to bloom.

Gary, I agree with Nancy. Take it back or if you don't still have it go to customer service and talk to them about it. Our Lowes is pretty accommodating about returns or issues.
Really I need to stop going there. I ran my son down there a few days ago to pic up some molding for his house and ended up bringing home a few new plants.
I brought Senecio Citriformis, Adromischus Cristatus Key Lime Pie, & Sedum Praeltum Cristata

Neet bloom hope mine blooms.

I was just there today and bought two more. Never thought to try and take it back. I bought Gasterole green gold and Argyroderma spp. Can't get the picture to load. I'll try later.

I'm not sure how many of you know how to care for P. nelii. Here is good information on watering them (or I should say NOT watering them) which is crucial to keeping them alive:
http://waterwhendry.blogspot.com/2007/09/pleiospilos-nelii.html

Here they are.

Nancy, Thanks for the watering info.
Gary, They look nice.

Hm I didn't see any Agroderma, might have to check out another HD LOL.

One problem with the split rocks from HD is that they have several pairs of leaves, which I guess means they have been over watered.

They actually arrive that way from Altmans, quite wet. But then there is the problem with people thinking they "know" what they are doing. I told the other "plant specialist" on Thursday that we shouldn't water the succulents for a couple of weeks. She told me yesterday that she gave them a "drink' since some of them were "falling apart" (actually rotting from their cold wet journey) and she wasn't sure that they weren't just rotting from being too dry. AAAAARGH!!! the lithops and pleisospilos were still saturated today. The part that irks me to no end is that in giving the succulents their 'drink" ( I think to prove some sort of point to me) she completely neglected tropicals that actually needed water!

This is why I only buy them if I know they are new. They do seem to go down hill fast. The HD by my house had a few over price adenium that I was keeping an eye on. After a couple weeks they had been watered so much they were getting very soft and dark. It's understandable that many of the people there don't know much about some of the more unusual plants they get in.

I agree with Newton, I also only buy new arrivals. It always gets me that most of the succulents are already about 3y old and have taken care of to get nice and strong only to be killed in a week or so!

Its awful isn't it... almost like a compulsion... why choose one or two when you can have them all on sale... {scary thought}

I got the Adromischus Cristata. It is so peculiar looking. The leaves almost look like some sort of exotic pastry. Mine have little plants with stalks growing next to the main leaves. I got mine from Lamoureaux Greenhouse in MA. Very affordable, even though not the largest selection of indoor plants. Family owned and not a rip-off like Logees in CT.

Oo Oo! My chocolate soldier is doing so well, I had to split the original plant. Its now about 6" tall with multiple crowns :)

This is so addictive. It sounds like you are really getting some nice plants fatcaudex. You definitely have the bug.

I am addicted! I should stay away from Home Depot and their sales!

Here's a pic of the baby Chocolate Soldier. He's now almost half the height of my original plant. I think they're in a spot in the sun they love... and they're going beserk to my utter delight!