🌧️Hiding away in the Greenhouse 😃🌵🌧️

 Come in ! Come in and join me in the greenhouse !  🤗

I was up early , doing the laundry , 🧺 hanging it all out on the line 🌤️and then bringing it all in again as it started to drizzle 🧺. Now it's all on the clothes-horse up in the bathroom . 🌧️

I know .....I said I was going to tidy up the Chamaerops humilis .

Anyway , changed my mind .

Today I'm going to repot Barney 🐶 my Dog Tail Cactus - proper name Selenicereus testudo  🐕‍🦺🐶🐕

He is now way too big for his pot and really needs a nice new hanging pot .

I found this in B&Q , not tried it before . I usually do my own mix for my cacti , anyway,  I'm giving it a go . 

I took him out of his pot and you can see the really good drainage I had given it before . This new compost doesn't appear to have much grit in it . Feels sandy and I can see little orange specks .

 Hmmm ...personally , I think it should have more grit .  We'll see how we go . 🤔

           I am using the empty pot to make the correct size/shape hole for the plant .

  Perfect .

This is also to allow for a good top dressing of horticultural grit . 

               He is not too spikey ! Carefully place him into the hole .

    ..... and nestle him in with the last little bit of the compost from the bag . I would have liked a little bit more compost in the bag . This was only enough to pot up one cactus ..I had hoped to have repotted at least two . 

                           Oops ..a little piece fell off !

    I'll stick it in there and it should soon put out roots . There you go little pup !  🐶

I am not watering this now for a couple of weeks . It only has the moisture that is already in the new compost . That is enough moisture for now .

So that just leaves me with the top dressing to do . Which will just have to wait as I can't find horticultural grit anywhere at the moment .

                      Parodia magnifica  ......I think ! 🌻 Has lovely cheerful yellow flowers . 

This is the grit I would like to use .

Echinocereus viereckii ssp. morricalii . 

     Nice strokable cactus - no spines 💚Very lovable . Has lovely big flowers 🌸....apparently.....not seen them yet mind !  

This comes in as second best top dressing , because I think , it is a tad too heavy .

Sometimes I smash up my own !

     My Agave Utahensis looking very handsome with his orange top dressing . 💚 

   This is one very vicious and badly behaved monster ! It spikes , bites and rips !😱

         Now safely at the very back of the greenhouse  . 

Selenicereus testudo has gorgeous arial roots and will put out more as he begins to sprawl out in his new hanging pot .

       His Dog Tail stems will hang down all around and hopefully one day, he will have the most outrageous white blooms !  💮

    🐶That's all from me , Barney and his new pup , in the greenhouse for today .🐕‍🦺            

     The sun has not come out , so my new fountain is sitting there doing nothing !

  I know ! I know ! I really need to get on and tidy up that bramble entangled Chamaerops humilis ! 

                                 Love and hugs  🌧️💚🌧️ Debbie x

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