Alas, my plants and I are showing signs of age. I have been a "plant person" since I stopped roaming around and put down tentative roots in Austin back in 1968. Not too long after that a friend was promoted to a Dallas job (I thought it was a demotion to have to leave Austin, but that was not how he felt.) He gave me a couple of plants, a Dracena warnanke and a Mother-in Law plant (also called a Cast Iron Plant). Mom gave me a pot of Ivy. Then I began to visit various nurseries around Austin and got more plants...Chinese Evergreens and various other plants that didn't survive my move to Huntsville. These I still have. In Huntsville, I got a Boston Fern, a Scheflera, Kolanchas, Aloe Vera, Walking Irises, Airplane or Spider plants...They all survived the move to San Angelo 16 years ago.
Some of the plants we knew would not survive and we left them with friends.
Until this year. We had a wonderful cool spring with plentiful rain until the first week or so of July. Then the rain stopped and we had a couple of months of +100 degree weather and no rain. We also had grasshoppers, wasps, spiders, mites of various kinds. My Boston fern which was about 36 inches in diameter early this spring now has about 4 fronds on it. The scheflera and the Walking Irises were attacked and almost destroyed by the grasshoppers. The Aloe Veras look good as does the Night blooming ciris....but most look weary.
Today I moved them all inside...some downstairs, some into the storeroom and the rest into various rooms of the house. I hope they survive. Maybe without the winds, the insects, the constantly changing weather, they will get to feeling better.
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