I hate pots

[Steve Mac]

I have been trying to get rid of all of my pots for years now. We like to go camping off grid now for weeks at a time. We have over the last few years reduced our propagation, to be free to travel in the van. 

We only grow them to give away to our friends/neighbours and have reduced it from 100's, to scores, to now just dozens of pots. Half of them are ready to give away now.  Being such a mild climate here, plants can go into the ground much earlier than in a lot of other places. After one more summer most of the rest will go and maybe one half a dozen may go into the ground squeezed in somewhere here.

My last ones include, Ch. Arenbergiana (fine leaf form),  Ch. microspadix (M) X radicalis (F), Ch. ernesti-augustii, falcifera, elatior, metalica, microspadix, oblongata, klotzschiana, schiedeana, benzeii and costaricana.  Hedyscepe canterburyana, Howea forsteriana,  Dypsis baronii, Laccospadix australasica,  Syagrus weddelliana,  Ravenea hildebrandtii, Sabal minor, Caryota mitis and Ptychosperma burretianum.  There are a few unknown ones in there too the birds (baby Magpies) and the grandkids take my sticks. 

They all seem to grow quite happily in el-cheapo potting mix. the only mix I amended with about 50% clay balls was for the S. weddelliama which are apparently fussy, they are certainly slow.

Oh yes we grew them all from seed.