Bionic money plants anyone?


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Many, many years ago I knicked a cutting from a money plant in a Chinese restaurant in Chilwell. I potted it and it grew, and grew and now after about thirty years I've still incarnations of the original. Last year I decided to give the two pot full's I've got a haircut. I kept one and chucked the other outside. We've had a couple of reasonable frosts of late and a particularly bad one today. I thought I'd check to see if the frost had got to the plant but low and behold it was there, smiling at me as though nothing had ever happened. On top of all that it had dropped leaves over the summer and at least half a dozen had self set and were growing fine so:

Crassula ovata, I salute you.

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Does that mean you are going to be rich, Mick? Have you checked that you haven't got that unclaimed Lottery ticket? Only joking - don't think a plant can influence how much money comes your way! I've got a spider plant which has been having babies for about 20 years - I occasionally repot these 'babies' and they all survive, but sometimes there are so many I just have to cut them off and throw them away, although that makes me feel guilty of plant murder!

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We have several "clones" of a money plant dotted about the house.

The original we gave a way' it lived outside for most of the year & was only bought in in November but it got too big for the lounge so we gave it to a friend who had room.

P.S.

I have seen these plans the size of trees in Crete.

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Is there a household in the western hemisphere that isn't inundated with these little boggers?! They are near impossible to kill, being both drought and flood tolerant. AS Mick found out...they are even frost tolerant to some degree. :)

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We had Japanese Knotweed that suddenly appeared from under slabs near the wall of our house, it was like a Triffid. We tried everything to get rid of it, unsuccessfully though. We sold the house in the end, wonder if the new occupants are still fighting it?

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They're probably buried under a massive heap of it. Not been seen for twenty years.

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Grape Hyacinths are a real pain. We had just a few and they were pretty but now they are taking over the garden. They got under the old drive and were making ridges in it! Had the drive dug up and relaid as it was years old. Now it is a constant hyacinth watch in the borders.

The money plant lives in the corner of the conservatory and causes no trouble. It is fine when I forget to water it. It has never flowered.

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I have had knotweed in the garden since I moved here 21yrs ago. Fortunately, our climate is not conducive to knotweed growth so it has remained as just a couple of plants in the hedgrerow and never spread.

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