variegated euphorbia

[piranha]

few plants they offer at canadian tire over the winter are ever properly labelled beyond "tropical plant" and "fern", so i am guessing. i love the colour combination with the blush.

it was 11°C today, and i made some serious inroads in the backyard (which i totally neglected last year); cut down a lot of the blackberry canes that had grown up through the apple tree, and seriously pruned the tree itself, probably 1/2 of it. the tree is dying, but i don't want the landlord to chop it down. i don't really care about the apples, but the shade is really nice, and the cats like it. they'll like it even better pruned.

i'm considering a sealer for the pruning wounds. i don't generally believe in sealers; i think applied to a wet wound they often crack as everything dries, and are then even more susceptible to wood rotting crap getting in there. but this tree is already so weak that i feel i ought to help it out. i dunno. i should do some reading on what the latest research says.

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

That is gorgeous.

re: variegated euphorbia

[betonica.livejournal.com]

Lovely plant. I never would have guessed Euphorbia (because I think of them as all being those cactus-but-not plants) but the flora parts look like they might be in threes. Any idea whether it has the classic milky sap?

I was just thinking of pruning sealers a few days ago, and noting that I hadn't seen any on anything in many, many years. I was wondering if they'd completely gone out of style, and/or someone had determined that they did more harm than good. But I have no idea.

[pameladean]

For roses, they tell one to use white glue.

P.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

I agree with the euphorbia ID -- not sure of variety, as "Tasmanian Tiger" isn't usually pink-tipped. Pretty.