6 AM

Since I never really see the outside (or inside) of my house at 6am, I've never really seen it in this light.
From this angle, it almost looks like things are coming together! ;) 

Blooms on my new hydrangea on the front corner. 'Limelight'

Moonflower getting ready to close back up for the day.

My succulents hanging out, looking pretty. :)
At the bottom of the picture, you can just see the little sprigs that were grown from cuttings and recently transplanted into this large metal bowl. So far, so good!

Californ-i-a: Plants

Megan doesn't live too terribly far from Mt. Baldy.
Naturally, we had to take a trip up the mountain to see what it was all about.

Then we get into the Claremont Colleges again and all of their wonderful plants.
I was digging all the succulents..and these huge agave (?) that were easily taller than all of us.

Would hate to be the one to trim all the boxwood.. :/

My red-tipped jade!

HUGE jade! I ended up using my foot for scale in all of these pictures..sue me.

No idea what these trees are..thought they were cool, though.

All the little succulents I have in pots were going crazy all over the place!
Alongside the Pacific Coast Highway was one of the smaller varieties I have at home spread out like a carpet over the entire roadside..it was incredible!

Again..these were over 6' tall!

This is exactly what I was going for with my big bowl planter at home!
Clearly, I failed ;)

I just really like jade..

Bummin' around the house

From the starter I made a couple weeks ago: ciabatta bread!

With the big, beautiful holes I was looking for last time and a nice crusty crust :)

I've also been re-potting some of my new plants. My orchid bloomed again, which I was told would NOT happen.
I chalk it up to good light in the 'greenhouse'

They're everywhere..

Potted Plants EVERYWHERE!

Mom, Grandma, and I went plant shopping yesterday as sort of a pre-Mother's Day/let's-buy-shrubs-for-the-house sort of jaunt. No shrubs to be had, but we did come across some great succulents....and I bought plenty of them!

Red-tipped jade from yesterday, and the snake plant came from mom several weeks ago.

I potted up some of the larger plants in this big metal bowl for outside (once it's warm enough) - we'll see how it does!

This one will be really interesting - the side pockets are all clippings from the other plants. Succulents will take root  in a potting medium even if there aren't roots established. You can end up with a totally new plant just by using a little sprig..

..as I'm attempting here!

Here are a few others from yesterday's trip. As you can tell, I have a tendency toward the weird ones.. :)