If you ever visit a Home Depot in Florida during spring, you’ll instantly know it’s a wild place, especially the outdoor gardening section. People are rushing to the aisle with Black Kow manure, loading up carts before others arrive. It’s like the Tickle-Me Elmo craze of Christmas past, but instead of Elmo, it’s bagged cow poop that’s good for plants. Just being in such a crazy environment makes you want to try something new or have a personal project in mind.
On one of my Home Depot weekends, I ended up buying a plant called Lemon Coral Sedum. It seemed like the sort of plant a questionable character like me could manage. I ended up putting a pot of this stuff outside my front door and noticed that, without any real care, it would naturally just spread and grow on the nearby rock beds. I didn’t so much as have to water it. There were just a sort of spongy, small growths that showed up nearby without any real human intervention. I’ve been letting the “weed” spread, collecting the growths, and putting them inside 3D-printed pots:
It’s wild how you can start out 3d printing circuit board enclosures and up with Moai with succulents growing out of their head.