@lyhargr_0 wrote:
There are heaps of other lovely succulents around, that wont 'cause these problems ...... I am amazed that any ethical nursery would sell it
yes, there are many plants available; I am very good at killing them. I was very proud of myself having this doing so well. 😞
It was a huge wholesale nursery somewhere on Mornington Peninsula; "opened to public this week only". I was lost and driving through the farmland with no street name signs, so I went in to ask where I am. They had mostly succulents, and this was one I never seen before. I thought it looked fascinating. It looks like some prehistorical dinosaur plant.
But then again, nurseries also sell Datura, which is also unkillable and toxic. My friend bought a house with Datura growing right next to the house, like an inch from the house, and her cat used it to climb up and jump on the fence. She would get the sap on her feet as she scratched the plant with her claws, and then she would lick it, and got sick. I was sharing the house with my friend and so we decided to cut the Datura down. Not only that the stump kept sprouting, all the branches kept growing on the compost. So we put them nicely spread, over the very hot summer, on the tin roof of the shed, which was in full sun. When we looked at it at the end of the summer, they were still alive. We also spent the summer trying to kill the stump; first by pouring boiling hot water over it, then some tree poisons (to hell with our green aspiration). In the end we, with help of various friends, we dug it out. But there must have been a root left, because few years later it came up. I think it was stil there years later when my friend sold the house. LOL
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