I'm so CHEAP (of course the Politically Correct way to put it is---I'm saving the Earth by recycling these to keep them out of the landfill!
For the past 3 months, whenever I have to go to Lowe's for something, I've wound up checking the plant department for plants on sale...and picking up bits and pieces of cacti and succulents off the floor. I always show them to the cashier in the garden center and ask if it's OK to take them or do the company rules say they HAVE to be thrown away...the cashiers always just smile and say they'd just get swept up and tossed so take them.
I actually managed to pick up a perfectly nice couple of 'Firesticks' pencil cactus, a gallon pot of Sanseveria, and a Baby Variegated Rubber Tree Pepperomia on sale cheap because the dirt had been mostly knocked out of the little pots they were in, as well as some very small branches of jade, varigated jade, gollum jade, variegated string of buttons, mini variegated jade (elephant's food) and three little Rhipsalis pieces. Also got several fallen leaves (some with baby plants already started), couple sections of Thimble cactus, some cobweb hens and chicks, and some pink cactus fruit that had been pulled off a cactus.
I repotted the sans, Pencil cactus, and baby rubber tree--with care and a little cactus fertilizer all are putting out new growth. Most of the rest I laid on the surface of the soil in the pots of the others and my San Pedro...some are starting to root and others are thinking about it.
Anybody else do this (or am I just an oddball?)
