Baby Plant Parts
Remember my sad Succulent Topiary? And how my goal was to take the fallout leaves and pieces and make new plants with them? Well, I have to admit that I started that project with a fair amount of skepticism, watered with a good amount of ignoring the project once it got started. (Which actually means that there was no watering involved at all.)
However, despite all of these factors, I now have baby plants growing. A week or so after I put the leaves in the dirt I pulled a leaf out and noticed tiny baby roots growing from it. And today when I went outside to take pictures of the roots, I saw baby plant parts growing.
Amazing. Here is the bucket of Fallout Leaves, stuck recklessly in the dirt:
And here is a tiny baby plant part. Below the tiny leaves you can see the roots growing down, sucking up - air? - from the dry dirt below.
Here is another growth spot:
Here are some out-of-focus roots growing from the end of a leaf:
Truly amazing. Maybe my succulent topiary has hope for many good topiary hair days after all.