I bought a snake plant (sanseveria laurentii, don't know if I spelled
that right) at Home Depot the other day. Most of them were kind of
scraggly looking and I picked one from the center of the display. (the
display was indoors). When I got home, I notice some cobwebs on the
leaves, so i brought it back outside, put it on the front porch and
sprayed it with a garden hose. At this point, a frog jumps out from
nowhere. It jumped towards the house, landed on the screen door (which
was still closing in mid-jump) and then leaped back to the plant. After
I went to get my camera, it was gone or was hiding really well. I took
the plant to the backyard, sprayed it again and took it inside the garage
after a while. Today, I was getting ready to repot some plants and when
I go to open the bag of Miracle-gro, there's the frog again. I'm
assuming it's the same one, although I though it was darker, it has the
same single stripe, though. Any ideas on what I should do? I'm inclined
to leave it it's own devices, although I wonder if it left some eggs or
something in the plant (some of the shoots look like they could hold
water, like you see bromeiliads doing on nature shows). Why is it just
hanging around? (it's been dry lately). Frog is about 2 inches long
light green with a yellow/tan lateral stripe. The people at the city's
animal control office didn't think I should be too concerned (since the
plant was from indoors, go figure). I will post a picture in the
alt.binaries.pictures.garden group.

Your frog story sure was riveting!
Did you kiss him to see if he was actually a prince?

BTW, its Sansevieria trifasciata 'Laurentii'

They really must be extra special at your local Home Depot if they have
mastered a way to kill snake plants!!!


"Salty Thumb" wrote in message
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I bought a snake plant (sanseveria laurentii, don't know if I spelled
that right) at Home Depot the other day. Most of them were kind of
scraggly looking and I picked one from the center of the display. (the
display was indoors). When I got home, I notice some cobwebs on the
leaves, so i brought it back outside, put it on the front porch and
sprayed it with a garden hose. At this point, a frog jumps out from
nowhere. It jumped towards the house, landed on the screen door (which
was still closing in mid-jump) and then leaped back to the plant. After
I went to get my camera, it was gone or was hiding really well. I took
the plant to the backyard, sprayed it again and took it inside the garage
after a while. Today, I was getting ready to repot some plants and when
I go to open the bag of Miracle-gro, there's the frog again. I'm
assuming it's the same one, although I though it was darker, it has the
same single stripe, though. Any ideas on what I should do? I'm inclined
to leave it it's own devices, although I wonder if it left some eggs or
something in the plant (some of the shoots look like they could hold
water, like you see bromeiliads doing on nature shows). Why is it just
hanging around? (it's been dry lately). Frog is about 2 inches long
light green with a yellow/tan lateral stripe. The people at the city's
animal control office didn't think I should be too concerned (since the
plant was from indoors, go figure). I will post a picture in the
alt.binaries.pictures.garden group.

"Cereus-validus" wrote in
:

Your frog story sure was riveting!
Did you kiss him to see if he was actually a prince?

BTW, its Sansevieria trifasciata 'Laurentii'

They really must be extra special at your local Home Depot if they
have mastered a way to kill snake plants!!!

ha, very funny. are you sure my story was riveting and not ribbiting?

by scraggly looking I meant having damaged or broken leaves, not knock,
knock, knocking on death's door.

I just went with what was on the upc label, which was Sansevieria
Laurentii. It looks like this:

http://www.desert-
tropicals.com/Plants/Agavaceae/Sansevieria_trifasciata.html

I don't usually play for that team, but for a kingdom, why not? So I ran
inside to get a breath mint, but sadly the frog had disappeared again.
:-(

Subject: buy snake plant, get free frog?
From: Salty Thumb
Date: 4/21/2004 6:39 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id:

I bought a snake plant (sanseveria laurentii, don't know if I spelled
that right) at Home Depot the other day. Most of them were kind of
scraggly looking and I picked one from the center of the display. (the
display was indoors). When I got home, I notice some cobwebs on the
leaves, so i brought it back outside, put it on the front porch and
sprayed it with a garden hose. At this point, a frog jumps out from
nowhere. It jumped towards the house, landed on the screen door (which
was still closing in mid-jump) and then leaped back to the plant. After
I went to get my camera, it was gone or was hiding really well. I took
the plant to the backyard, sprayed it again and took it inside the garage
after a while. Today, I was getting ready to repot some plants and when
I go to open the bag of Miracle-gro, there's the frog again. I'm
assuming it's the same one, although I though it was darker, it has the
same single stripe, though. Any ideas on what I should do? I'm inclined
to leave it it's own devices, although I wonder if it left some eggs or
something in the plant (some of the shoots look like they could hold
water, like you see bromeiliads doing on nature shows). Why is it just
hanging around? (it's been dry lately). Frog is about 2 inches long
light green with a yellow/tan lateral stripe. The people at the city's
animal control office didn't think I should be too concerned (since the
plant was from indoors, go figure). I will post a picture in the
alt.binaries.pictures.garden group.


Sounds like a green treefrog. (Hyla cinerea). They're common throughout the
southeastern U.S.

-


theoneflasehaddock

Subject: buy snake plant, get free frog?
From: "Cereus-validus"
Date: 4/21/2004 9:38 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id:

Your frog story sure was riveting!
Did you kiss him to see if he was actually a prince?

BTW, its Sansevieria trifasciata 'Laurentii'

They really must be extra special at your local Home Depot if they have
mastered a way to kill snake plants!!!



It can take them years, but theu can do that at the Home Depot around here too.
It may take a while. The key is to never, EVER, water anything. The other
important problem is to make sure it doesn't sell before it dies, but
outrageous prices for sick plants can often cure that.

-

theoneflasehaddock

"Salty Thumb" wrote in message
...
I will post a picture in the
alt.binaries.pictures.garden group.

It sure looks green -- more green than any frog I've seen in North America.

Perhaps you could get a better photo and ask about it in a frog-related
newsgroup such as rec.pets.herp.

Cris

"............ Today, I was getting ready to repot some plants and when I go
to open the bag of Miracle-gro, there's the frog again. I'm assuming it's
the same one, although I though it was darker, it has the same single
stripe, though. Any ideas on what I should do? ................"

Take more water with it.

--
David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk

"Christopher Fuhrman" wrote in
:


"Salty Thumb" wrote in message
...
I will post a picture in the alt.binaries.pictures.garden group.

It sure looks green -- more green than any frog I've seen in North
America.

Perhaps you could get a better photo and ask about it in a
frog-related newsgroup such as rec.pets.herp.

Cris

It does look like hyla cinera. I checked and it even has the leg stripe.

Last night when I checked on it, it appeared to have left but today it's
back, but has moved a couple of inches further down on the bag.

The posted picture was taken with a really cheap camera and was the least
fuzzy of 8. The mortar in the background definitely isn't that shiny,
but the frog is about the right color.

I'm just going to leave it be, although I'm still wondering why it's
hanging around.

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:44:40 GMT, Salty Thumb
wrote:

"Cereus-validus" wrote in
m:

Your frog story sure was riveting!
Did you kiss him to see if he was actually a prince?

BTW, its Sansevieria trifasciata 'Laurentii'

They really must be extra special at your local Home Depot if they
have mastered a way to kill snake plants!!!

ha, very funny. are you sure my story was riveting and not ribbiting?

by scraggly looking I meant having damaged or broken leaves, not knock,
knock, knocking on death's door.

I just went with what was on the upc label, which was Sansevieria
Laurentii. It looks like this:

http://www.desert-
tropicals.com/Plants/Agavaceae/Sansevieria_trifasciata.html

I don't usually play for that team, but for a kingdom, why not? So I ran
inside to get a breath mint, but sadly the frog had disappeared again.
:-(

Tree frog might be from the area where the plant was grown/shipped
from, or it could be from the area local to the store where the plant
was bought.. if it had been outside there, or was outside. I've seen
another frog pic posted in one of the garden groups recently similar
looking frog.

I've seen frogs that green here, but smaller and with Dark stripes
rather than light. We have a brown version and a green version of the
same tree frog.

Janice

Subject: buy snake plant, get free frog?
From: Janice
Date: 4/22/2004 10:42 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id:

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:44:40 GMT, Salty Thumb
wrote:

"Cereus-validus" wrote in
:

Your frog story sure was riveting!
Did you kiss him to see if he was actually a prince?

BTW, its Sansevieria trifasciata 'Laurentii'

They really must be extra special at your local Home Depot if they
have mastered a way to kill snake plants!!!

ha, very funny. are you sure my story was riveting and not ribbiting?

by scraggly looking I meant having damaged or broken leaves, not knock,
knock, knocking on death's door.

I just went with what was on the upc label, which was Sansevieria
Laurentii. It looks like this:

http://www.desert-
tropicals.com/Plants/Agavaceae/Sansevieria_trifasciata.html

I don't usually play for that team, but for a kingdom, why not? So I ran
inside to get a breath mint, but sadly the frog had disappeared again.
:-(

Tree frog might be from the area where the plant was grown/shipped
from, or it could be from the area local to the store where the plant
was bought.. if it had been outside there, or was outside. I've seen
another frog pic posted in one of the garden groups recently similar
looking frog.

I've seen frogs that green here, but smaller and with Dark stripes
rather than light. We have a brown version and a green version of the
same tree frog.

No, actually the frog turns color, either green or brown. The stripe doesn't
change.

-

theoneflasehaddock

Janice wrote in
:


Tree frog might be from the area where the plant was grown/shipped
from, or it could be from the area local to the store where the plant
was bought.. if it had been outside there, or was outside. I've seen
another frog pic posted in one of the garden groups recently similar
looking frog.

I've seen frogs that green here, but smaller and with Dark stripes
rather than light. We have a brown version and a green version of the
same tree frog.

Janice


yeah I remember reading about the frog here (rec.gardens) and it's the same
kind of frog. of course I just assumed my own special froggy couldn't be
the same, but it looks like they are both identified as a green tree frog,
hyla cinerea. I think mine has smoother skin, so it would beat the other
frog in a beauty contest (or wait, is bumpy skin better on frogs?)

anyway, I cut open the bag of potting soil yesterday and the frog moved off
to loiter on the stack of buckets the bag was leaning on. Last night/today
it rained and I don't see him/her anymore, after about 3 days of just
hanging around. So maybe it went off for a swim or maybe it just took it
that long to realize a bag of potting soil is not a tree.

"David Hill" wrote in
:

"............ Today, I was getting ready to repot some plants and when
I go to open the bag of Miracle-gro, there's the frog again. I'm
assuming it's the same one, although I though it was darker, it has
the same single stripe, though. Any ideas on what I should do?
................"

Take more water with it.


not sure what you mean, but I dribbled some water (that I left standing for
a while to get rid of some of the chlorine) next to it after it moved to
the stack of buckets. I'm not sure it cared, despite the high temps that
day.

Subject: buy snake plant, get free frog?
From: Salty Thumb
Date: 4/24/2004 5:17 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id:

Janice wrote in
:


Tree frog might be from the area where the plant was grown/shipped
from, or it could be from the area local to the store where the plant
was bought.. if it had been outside there, or was outside. I've seen
another frog pic posted in one of the garden groups recently similar
looking frog.

I've seen frogs that green here, but smaller and with Dark stripes
rather than light. We have a brown version and a green version of the
same tree frog.

Janice


yeah I remember reading about the frog here (rec.gardens) and it's the same
kind of frog. of course I just assumed my own special froggy couldn't be
the same, but it looks like they are both identified as a green tree frog,
hyla cinerea. I think mine has smoother skin, so it would beat the other
frog in a beauty contest (or wait, is bumpy skin better on frogs?)

anyway, I cut open the bag of potting soil yesterday and the frog moved off
to loiter on the stack of buckets the bag was leaning on. Last night/today
it rained and I don't see him/her anymore, after about 3 days of just
hanging around. So maybe it went off for a swim or maybe it just took it
that long to realize a bag of potting soil is not a tree.


It was probably waiting for the rainy day to move somewhere. It would be more
humid, and less sunny, so the frog would be much more active then. It may still
be nearby, or if it wasn't finding many bugs, or if it's ready to breed, it may
have moved on already.

-


-

theoneflasehaddock

Salty Thumb wrote:

I bought a snake plant (sanseveria laurentii, don't know if I spelled
that right) at Home Depot the other day. Most of them were kind of
scraggly looking and I picked one from the center of the display. (the
display was indoors). When I got home, I notice some cobwebs on the
leaves, so i brought it back outside, put it on the front porch and
sprayed it with a garden hose. At this point, a frog jumps out from
nowhere.

My boss had a plant at home that came with a tiny
tree frog. His was much smaller than yours. He
had it for a number of years before it died. It
lived in a bromeliad, I think. He never fed it so
it must have found food somewhere in the house -
insects, I imagine, but knowing his house I can't
imagine there were any. Hmmm?
Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?

Kate Connally wrote in :

Salty Thumb wrote:

I bought a snake plant (sanseveria laurentii, don't know if I spelled
that right) at Home Depot the other day. Most of them were kind of
scraggly looking and I picked one from the center of the display. (the
display was indoors). When I got home, I notice some cobwebs on the
leaves, so i brought it back outside, put it on the front porch and
sprayed it with a garden hose. At this point, a frog jumps out from
nowhere.

My boss had a plant at home that came with a tiny
tree frog. His was much smaller than yours. He
had it for a number of years before it died. It
lived in a bromeliad, I think. He never fed it so
it must have found food somewhere in the house -
insects, I imagine, but knowing his house I can't
imagine there were any. Hmmm?
Kate


That's interesting ... I don't know what I'd have done if mine hadn't made
it outside. I guess having a frog on pest patrol inside would be nice,
but I'd be afraid of accidently crushing it while it was hiding or worse
leaving little frog raisins in inconvenient places.