Other items I found on amazon.com were these plastic pot liners
in five different sizes. I thought they'd be quite handy,
so I bought a pack; I like using them . . .
These two pots, with several bits 'n' pieces of Christmas Cactus
that have, over the years, broken off several of the big plants
(and of course, with colors all mixed together) were put into
two new pots, also from amazon.com. The iridescence is lovely.
The Savannah Bird Girl (without her fountain) gets a bit of sun in the early morning.
(No, we don't have the Bird Girl Fountain any more;
we came to the realization that putting a fountain under
a grove of bamboo was a REALLY BAD IDEA [they are MESSY],
and we had no where else to put her, so we gave her to Patricia Y & Henry M.)
(As you can see, this one - the original - is discolored.
When I complained to the manufacturer, I was sent a replacement
and told to keep this one. There is also tar on her right arm
from when our roof was replaced by incompetents in 2019.)
Having left my seat for a few minutes, Emmie decided SHE, too, wanted to play in the dirt . . .
. . . or at least comfortably watch me doing so . . .
Sometime last summer, Jackie I. brought me a Christmas Cactus that wasn't doing well;
it was in a large pot with heavy dirt and had been outside in rain storms.
I let it languish for almost a year, waiting to see what it would do.
Surprisingly, it bloomed and, this spring, began growing and showing some strength.
I thought that perhaps the root system had increased, too,
but I had been too optimistic . . .
So now it's in a much smaller pot,
with some companion plants of other pieces of cacti.
It has much better posture than when it first came here, too.
This is the slightly larger version of the irridescent pots;
I only wish they came in much larger sizes.
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