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Bunch of random stuff I took pictures of recently.

1: Begonia from cutting in front, row of red rose cuttings behind it, confederate rose cutting to the left
2: Red & Pink rose cuttings in front
3. More confederate rose cuttings (theyre so easy and make the coolest flowers in late fall)
4: some liriope that I dug up and separated in one spot to spread here in front of my ficus’s
5: a dusty miller cutting! I have good luck with these too
6 & 7: some Lilly or something that my mom planted many years ago in bloom. Don’t know the type if anyone else does
8: left to right: Dusty Miller cutting, Snake Plant cuttings, Plumeria cutting, mother Snake Plant pot, small Dusty Miller cutting
9: end of driveway, random arrangement. Pumpkin, Mexican heather, roses, hosta in pot, with River rocks and driftwood accents
10: other side with similar stuff with a sago pup I got off of one of my old big sago palms and that other big tropical thing I forget the name of that was propagated decades ago from a MASSIVE mother plant that was about 12’x12’ at my family’s original land about 2 hours south of us in Port Sulphur, Louisiana (currently about an hour north of New Orleans). Mailbox has rose cuttings at the bottom of it.
11-12: close ups
13: huge old rose bush at the end of the driveway in full bloom
14: huge rose bushes along my fence in full bloom
15: my (yellow) Lady Banks Rose along the fence — did a fresh hard cutback a few weeks ago after it bloomed.

First one was the first cutting I took from the mother plants few months ago now, when it first started sprouting up, and it was the biggest/thickest cutting I took. Rather than pencil thick it was more like permanent marker thick. The rest were usual size. The ones that are in the ground were from cuttings made years ago that were just left in a pot together, so this year when they came back up I separated them all out of the pot and planted them. Now they’re almost all about to bloom.. except one that a branch fell on during a rainstorm and I had to cut it back a couple weeks ago lol — last picture is the smallest cutting I had and one of the last I took. I didn’t know there was already a flower Bud on it when I took the cutting. It went on to fully bloom before all the rest developed buds 😆

I will have to get a new picture of the mother plant in a minute. It usually gets about 10ft+ but since I took so many cuttings, it’s VERY bushy now!

Aight so I’ve lurked around the outskirts of Reddit for a while now, and I’ve wanted to make a post like this for a long time. This is a good portion of my front yard. It would take well over 20 pictures to really go through it… but the story about my yard is that it started out as my parents’ at my childhood home. Long story short, I moved back to take care of my elderly (and adoptive) mother & father. My mother needed the most care, and gardening was mainly her thing. Born in 1943 in rural southeastern Louisiana. Tons of knowledge of plants and gardening. I learned a lot from here as a kid just being around it all the time, as well as learning stuff from my two oldest brothers who have degrees in biology/zoology. When I moved back, I took on the task of taking care of the yard, so I learned as much as I could from my mother until her passing this past January. As hard as I’ve worked on it the past 5 years or so, I think I’ve worked even harder in the past 5 weeks.

It’s constantly a work in progress but that’s part of the fun, right? So you’ll see a lot of cuttings in random pots all over the place. I do a TON of propagating of my own already-cool plants. And for friends and family who want stuff, etc.

If y’all want to see more, or have questions about what some stuff is, etc, let me know. Theres tons of roses and hibiscuses and azaleas, and Crepe Myrtles, hostas, Dusty Miller, jasmines, confederate roses, Mexican heathers, wisterias, hidden ginger, sweet olives and heck all sorts of stuff. Plumeria, mother in law’s Tongue… lots of my mom’s favorite stuff! 😁