Plant Shopping: Halloween-ish Home Depot Trip

I was in need of more supplies, so I took a trip to Home Depot. 

And of course, I ended up in my sanctuary, aka the houseplant area. The timing was excellent, they had so many more tropical plants than my last visit. 

So many large green leaves.

And look at those tradescantias hanging above the huge elephant ears.

And this bromeliad is beautiful, I just wish I had the space for it.

Here's all the bags of potting mixes and amendments. This was the real reason for this trip.

Here's some "seasonal" plants. They're easy care houseplants wrapped in Halloween print packaging. I'm tempted to come back after Halloween to see if they go on clearance. 

Here's a flock of false Bird of Paradise (heliconia psittacorum). Get it? Flock?

These appear to be coral cactus. I don't have the right conditions for them, at least not yet.

Speaking of cacti, here's the succulents table (and an unfortunately blurry photo). There was a fresh batch of cute succulents, individual and grouped.

But, among the grouped succulents were these holiday themed ones.

Three assorted succulents packed in cute Halloween skull pots.

It has a Nightmare Before Christmas vibe, and the $6.98 price for 3 succulents is actually pretty good. Plus, the pots actually have a drainage hole, so they're not just a cheap decoration. 

Before I could leave, I spotted the Venus fly trap display. Boxes of carnivorous cuties crying out "take me home!"

So, what did I actually take home?

Well, I did take advantage of the good deal on the skull succulents. 

It just took ages for me to decide on one that had three plants that I actually wanted.

This pot includes a jade plant (crassula ovata)...

...Moonstone (pachyphytum oviferum)...

...and Golden Sedum (sedum adolphi).

I still haven't decided if I want to split them up or keep them potted together. 

And yes, I did bring home one of the Venus fly traps (dionaea muscipula).

I picked one that seemed to have fewer black leaves compared to the rest. It also had few new baby leaves.

As soon as I got it home, I got out the tweesers to carefully remove the black leaves and other debris.

Behold, the fruits of my labor.

I took my new Venus Fly Trap to work and set it up in the breakroom. It will live here for few weeks dealing with a fly problem before settling back at home.

Hopefully this one will survive longer that the last one I had. Oh, what happened to it you ask? That's a story for another day.

Stay green. 

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August Home Depot Plant Hauls

So, I recently got new glasses, and...

The place I got them from happens to be in the same shopping center as my local Home Depot, and...

I haven't browsed their garden center in a long time, so...

I got some new plants!

This first one is a corpuscularia lehmanni, commonly known as an ice plant. It was priced at $4.98. I normally wait until the end of August to buy succulents at Home Depot because they usually have good sales for them then, but I couldn't wait. The shape of the leaves is so cute, they remind me of little crab claws.

The label for this one just said it was a "tropical" plant, annoyingly vague.  Google Lens told me it was a pilea involucrata 'Norfolk', or a Norfolk friendship plant. It was $5.98. The coloring and wrinkled leaves reminds me of my dearly departed hemigraphis alternata, or Purple Waffle Plant. Hopefully, this one will be easier to keep alive.

The label on this one just said "Peperomia", great except there are like thousands of different peperomia plants. Google Lens says it is possibly a peperomia 'hope'. It was $5.98. The leaves are adorable and I love how they're group in threes with the stems growing from the center.

Another succulent, this is a ledebouria socialis, aka a Silver Squill or Leopard Lilly. It was $5.98.  It really caught my eye with the pretty pattern on its long leaves. I was actually surprised to see it with the succulents, it resembles a lot of tropical plants I've seen.

This last plant I actually got on a different trip about a week and a half later.  Same story, I needn't something at a shop that just happened to be near the Home Depot. I actually only intended to buy some seeds, a microgreens mix, more on that later.

I spotted this beauty on the way to checkout, priced at $9.98 with a decorative pot. It's a hoya carnosa 'Freckles Splash'. With those thick shiny deep green leaves and the pretty splash pattern, it just had to come home with me.

I will be sure to share more later about how they are doing and what I've learned about them.

Until then, stay green.

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