Himalayan Acres Nursery Developing Well!
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A short tour of our Himalayan Acres nursery and specimen tree plantings. Here we’re looking down the rows of about 1,000 pots mostly with agaves, sansveria and a few aloes and cactus, all plants with very low water requirements.
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This sanseveria is a popular ground cover. It started out as just one shoot and has in a few months developed several more. Soon it will fill the pot.
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This is one of the agaves we bought as “tissue culture.” It was a very small plant when it arrived, and has, for unknown reasons, remained so…
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Another of the tissue culture agaves is growing fine.
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as is this one
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At this end we’ve planted “song of India” in 20 gallons plastic bags. This variegated dracaena is very popular.
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Agave geminflora doing well.
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Agaves in the double row to the left, ferns next, geminflora and barefly visible on the right is aloe candy corn.
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aloe candy corn
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