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crassula ovata (was sandy potting mix ?)
"Joe" wrote in message . .. I found out what my plant is called thanks to David, it's a crassula ovata aka money tree). This plant is called a "tree that turns into money" in Japan, apparently because the shapes of the leaves look like an old Japanese coin. I suppose the name was translated into English "money tree". Here in Japan they sell special potting mixtures for it. I don't know about Britain. The stuff just looks like vermiculite to me. Personally, I have several pots of Crassula Ovata. They are easy to grow and appear to tolerate most soils and temperatures, except frost. I find that I need to water them all year round. However, mine have never flowered! Mine flowered this winter. Apparently the trick is not to water them! Having said that, my father in Britain has a giant one, which is really ugly, he says he has never watered it, but anyway it never flowers, just keeps getting bigger and bigger and more and more ugly I think. According to my gardening magazine, there are a lot of varieties of the plant, some of which are much better at flowering than others. Mine was out in the garden during the summer, but I didn't do anything to it. It got a little damaged by the cold weather and all the old leaves fell off it, which strangely made it look much nicer. |
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