The Donkey's Tail Tale

I love my houseplants. This one, The Donkey's Tail came from a cutting from my mother's plant. She had a bigger one and would grab the tails and lift them up over the plant, and exclaim, this is how they multiply! I am not criticizing her method of propagation, but I am a little more gentler with my plant. She must have given me some that she had potted but I don't recall the incident of receiving the babies, I just know my plant came from hers. I have given a potting of babies to my grand-daughter so the tradition goes on. One plant of donkey's tail down through four generations. I have two ways of propagating them, one is by rooting the stems and the other is by letting the succulent leaves take root. I use a clam shell from the grocery store. That is a plastic see through container with a lid. Store bought potting soil is my choice of potting medium.

kalanchoe

I was at the place I hang out which I have been forbidden to mention on my blog and I found a little snippet of a kalanchoe, this was a few years ago. The snippet was about 2 inches long. I put it in water above my kitchen sink and watched it grow over the years, almost allowing it to die a few times. When it trailed to long, i cut it and and rooted the cutting. I happened to let it dry out a little this fall and it must have been exposed to low light, because it was stimulated in the right way to burst forth into blooms.The cutting looks good too with blooms.