Hello Silver Bloggers and Hivers!
Just recently, I visited my friend Johanna in her garden center to have a look at the cacti and succulents she has for sale. I was meaning to get new succulent plant to add to my Spanish "smuggled" cactus and succulent collection in Vienna and every season I opted to bring one plant simply to add to my growing assortments.
We were giggling when we made this photo, Maria (Left) said we should take our mask off to show our beauty...Lololols! Johanna is on the right, owner of the garden center.
Johanna`s garden center is called Garden Paradise. Now that it´s December and Christmas is just 13 days left , she decorated her shop according to the season. Outside in the garden, she also has huge olive trees, palm trees for sale. I also get my olive firewoods from this shop and they also deliver it to our house.
I also saw that she stocked freshly cut pine trees. In Spain, pine trees were hard to find because there are not much shops selling them and besides, the locals use those fake pine trees to adorn their homes. Some use dried bush as Christmas tree, painted it white and nicely decorate it with lovely Christmas ornaments.
I have chosen the above succulent because it has many newbies on the side which I could repot. Given the space on the ground, they can spread easily . Its flower is similar to the flower of Aloe Vera.
These are the common types of cactus that are also available in garden centers in Vienna, so I do not intend to bring some.
One new arrival is this weird succulent above. I haven´t seen this one before and I am just thinking whether I should "smuggle" one and put it in the luggage.
The shop was full of lovely flowers and I was in awe when I visited because I would like to get each example. Unfortunately, I can´t plant them in my garden because they need some care. I once tried planting bougainvillea, but then it died off because after we left, there was no caretaker that would water the garden.
Our water supply comes from the 30K Liter tank we have in our plot and this is run by electricity which we turn off before flying back home. We do not want risk of water overflowing to the neighbors so we plant cacti and succulents only as they almost do not need water. Our Cactus garden survived the 22 months that we were not here, no watering whatsoever.
This is about for now, I hope you like the flowers. Until next time...see you around!
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