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Hey! a blank canvass, what's wrong with that? as you can get the full visual impact of, what can be, and what will be, or que sara: que sara.

others have said it all

AND GOT BIGGER AND BIGGER

it started to grow in 4004.

is now dead and gone from where I took the fallen pod.

this plant is shown growing in natural mode it does flower at a certain highth I believe, but as I have been growing this plant since 2004 and have had to cut it twice to stop it reaching 10 feet app' it has so far not flowered maybe there is still time????? I hope!!!!!!!!

Hi, the plant at the back seems to be Opuntia Subulata and they will grow up to 10 feet high if it is getting too high just cut it at the highth you want you will not kill it, it will just branch out from the cut point. CAUTION!!! First check out Euphorbia as they look very much the same Euphorbia is much lighter in colour. If you go for the cut just let the cutoff dry for a couple of days and then plant in a pot Hey! Presto you have another one.Dave

Furerteventura, just happed to pass by this garden center and thought I would call in, and ended up with the grand tour of the place on a Electric work bus, believe me it is a BIG place.

Hi Again
My question really was serious, my reasoning may be sophistic, but it seems logical to me that there is an alternative, the alterative answer does not negate the answer given by Owdboggy as his answer on phototropism may be the trigger that sends the message to the plant first, if we look at the facts of the action, then the facts speak for themselves, don’t they? Just like the Sun going round the Earth as it does every day, rises in the east, and goes down in the west, then comes back up in the east giving another day (ad infinitum). Of course the heretic will say, that is not the case, we go round the Sun, and for saying so, I believe some were made to recant on the pain of death, well I have reason to believe that plants do not grow (lean) towards the light.
They actually grow away from the dark. I know you may think it is the same thing but the mechanics would be very different if that is the case.
I many cases we become so blinded by the blatantly obvious much like our car battery, on which there are two terminals one positive and the other negative and that is that. Yet, did you know in actual fact the positive is not positive it is negative and the negative is not negative it is positive, but the obverse became so well entrenched in the mind of the populous it was decided by the powers of the time not to change it over and leave it be, much like a plant growing towards the light. (?????)
I am very new to this gardening game most of my information has been gained from Mrs Green Fingers next door (over the other fence) so I tend to see things just a little differently from the conventional gardener due to first hand observation (some of it in the natural world frightens me, as we are all part of it, and susceptible to the observable vagaries)
What started my thought line was the application of weed and feed the weed part being an accelerant that induces rapid growth on broad leaf plants as I understand it, and so they burn them selves out, much like the dark induced rapid growth under the trampoline?
Consider a round bar (stem) when it bends it has a concave side and a convex side the convex side is the dark side so it must have greater growth than the concave side, or the concave side has retarded growth, “My plants do not bend they lean”. Yes that may be right but to cause them to lean the growth action would be lower down the stem near the root bowl an even darker place so the action would be the same, Hey! I’m not knocking any one just thought I would like to share some of my uninformed thinking on a subject I know little about.

By yellow do you mean dead
Because when I move the trampoline
The grass dies instead.
And at the end of the day
It always leans the same way

Thankyou for your answer, but if this is so
Why is the grass so green
under the trampoline?

had one in my garden some time ago, photo through a rain spotted window so not a lot of good, knowing they do not just take birds I put some traps down and took out a lot of small rodents (mice) the sparrow hawk may have gone but the mice will still be there, if that is what it was after, you may think you have a clean scene, but you are no further away from a rat than six feet, frightening aint it?

not a good photo but it looks like one I have got these plants take on realy random shapes not sure of the name but I will come back to you when I get it next month