Speaking of Strange Plants...

While I love common and dependable plants I'm also smitten with unusual ones.  Do you remember these lyrics?  "Make new friends but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold."  It applies well to plants as well.  Anyway, here are a few of the strange plants living in my greenhouse.  In some cases, the plants aren't that strange but they're doing strange things.






Euphorbia suzannae sort of sat around doing nothing for a year or two but this year decided to put out some side growth.

Since this Lophoceres schottii came home with me from the Portland Garden Bloggers' Fling in 2014, it's slowly grown taller.  This year, it got a little plant food in the spring and what I thought might be a flower bud appeared.  It's not a flower bud.  Very unusual for this particular plant to put out a side shoot.

This little pup was listed as Agave 'Joe Hoak' mediopicta.  I think it must be Agave desmettiana mediopicta.  Although in looking at pictures on the interweb, 'Joe Hoak' makes bulbils that look just like this.  Time will tell.

I'm pleased as punch that Begonia sizemoreae with it's huge, textured, hairy leaves is happy in the greenhouse and is even blooming this year.  Seems this one  likes to dry out between waterings.

Here's a puzzler.  Both of the following plants were labeled Pachypodium but one has really long leaves


One last strange plant that I thought was dead this winter but must have just been dormant  is Euphorbia decaryi spirosticha.