There's a ton of building down here as well...always a couple tower cranes up and traffic (although still not bad) seems to be getting worse... I'm tangentially involved in the construction industry so I see some things from that angle as well and yep, things are definitely moving!
I'm looking forward to being able to take the shade cloth down in a month or so and seeing how they do with more temperate weather. I've got a bunch of grit in there, and I'll get another bag and work that in as soon as I can (I've got a couple yard projects I'm trying to balance on a limited budget
so it's a process. Obviously the damaged semps jumped to the top of the priority list as I didn't want to lose them!). So far, the big NOIDs seem to be recovering and the my newest ones (a hookeri and a carmen) are still doing OK, so the cloth/grit/better watering seems to be working - I just hope the little topaz and fire dragons recover. One of the purposes of all this was for me to figure out what would grow well in what parts of the yard, so I expected some loss, but it's still a bummer and I want to avoid it as much as possible.
I love the way they look, but I had some unreasonable expectations going in...for some reason I was thinking they were sturdy like cacti (no idea where I got that idea!). Now that I realize they are not I can plan better going forward. Hopefully!
Thanks so much all for the support and advice, I don't know where I'd be on this project without the internet, and this forum in particular!
Fingers crossed that the next semp pics I upload are the good kind of "after" shots.
