new stuff

Last weekend, we stopped at a nursery out near my mom's house. We were over there helping her do some assorted chores and so we decided to stop on the way home. This nursery had just bought out another one and so they had tons of new stock. They were selling all their cacti at 50-75% off. Score!! I knew they had the sale and that is why I wanted to go. We are wanting to add some new cacti to the garden we are starting in the backyard. Right now we have two aloe plants, one huge and one medium size. They are both the medicinal aloe, btw. So... we bought a couple new cacti and saved over $100. We bought a prickly pear (the kind that actually fruits. they all bloom, but only one variety has fruit and that's what we got.) and a red torch. The red torch blooms right out the top and its called red torch, because the flowers are bright red. For now we are leaving them in the pots. The prickly pear needs a bigger pot, so we will re-pot that one. We will probably wait until its cooler to actually dig up the yard and plant them. But I wanted to get some nice cacti while they were at a smoken price. Here they are:


The other new stuff to come into our lives are these concrete planters:
One of our neighbors works where they make concrete things and told Chris that he had these planters that were made the wrong size and so they were super cheap. Chris decided to buy them from him and the neighbor brought them over last night. They are freaking heavy. I cannot even move one. He got both of them for $50. Planters like that are not cheap. We are very excited. If you look in the picture with the new cacti, you can see little baby cacti on the ledge. Right now, we have 4 little ones and we are gonna buy a few more and put them in one of the planters. It will be an awesome addition to the cactus garden. Not sure yet what we are gonna do with the other one, but still... pretty neat.