Crazy Critters Inc. is a Non-Profit, 501(c)3, Private Exotic Animal Rescue, Sanctuary, and Conservancy.
This Wildlife Facility is located in Eustis, Florida. Crazy Critters Inc. was established to provide non-domestic, non-releasable animals with a safe and permanent home. At the moment the facility houses animals including lizards, turtles, skinks, geckos, and birds.
Animals are not on display as in a zoo setting, instead, we provide animal education during private events.
We are currently hosting a plant sale fundraiser and you are invited! Funds from plant sales will go directly to a construction project for rescued birds.
To meet a few of the birds housed at the facility, click... https://youtu.be/pP4iBE4Syqo
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The Crazy Plants Nursery is a small greenhouse located at 22919 County Road 44a in Eustis, Florida., constructed to raise funds for the 501c3 nonprofit animal facility Crazy Critters Inc.
Hours of operation are Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 am - 3 pm.
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String Of Pearls $5
String Of Turtles $8
String Of Hearts $8
String Of Dolphins $15, $40, and $50
String Of Banana $20 and $35
Tomatoes $3 - $12
Pepper Plants $3 - $20
2" Succulents $1.75
2" Cactus $2
2" Hawthoria and Gasteria $2
3" Succulents and Cactus $2.50
4" Succulents $3.50
4" Cactus $4
Airplants $3.50, $5, and $10
Carnivorous Plants $4 up
Edible Plants $3.50 up
Hanging Plants $9 up
Prayer Plants $7 up
Misc. Plants $4 up
Ferns $6 up
Hoya $5 up
Cash Only
No Discounts
Licensed Nursery
High-Quality Plants
Sales Tax Is Included
We Do Not Ship Plants
We Can Not Hold Plants
Wholesale Prices To All!
Located in Eustis, Florida
Prices Subject To Change
Pick-up and Pick-out Only
Proceeds To Great Cause!
Owner Operated Small Business!
Specialize In Rare and Edible Plants!
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WHAT ARE YOU SUPPORTING WITH A PURCHASE??
Crazy Critters Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization established to provide non-domestic, non-releasable animals with a safe and permanent home. The sanctuary has helped animals that include reptiles, birds, and assorted wildlife.
Crazy Critters Inc. is a self-funded organization that serves as an FWC Amnesty location for some species of animals. Our programs help with the invasive species issues in Florida while we work on our application to do native rehabilitation for release.
The animal facility is not open to the public. Instead, hosting private educational events and using social media to share the facility build and news.
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Please consider coming out to the nursery this weekend because we have a really nice selection of plants and we keep our prices LOW!!!
For the entire month of March, we will be selling raffle tickets for this awesome succulent garden.
The raffle drawing will be live on our FB page on April 01, 2021, at 4 pm,
The prize is pick-up only before the end of April.
The prize can be donated to Crazy Critters Inc. in order to raise additional funds if the winner is out of state.
One Raffle Ticket $5
Five Raffle Tickets $20
Fifteen Raffle Tickets $40
We will have them available during nursery hours or you can purchase tickets on our website.
The Crazy Plants Nursery is a small greenhouse located at 22919 County Road 44a in Eustis, Florida., constructed to raise funds for Crazy Critters Inc.
Hours of operation are Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 am - 3 pm.
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Watch Hunter the Blue and Gold Macaw Parrot begin to learn to paint. It has been fun working with her and you know what? It has calmed her down so much!
In Florida, a fence can be considered a nuisance if its construction was motivated by malice, rather than a legitimate purpose such as preventing trespassing or vandalism.
To develop strong bodies and legs, the rhea must have room to run and exercise. Birds that are provided with lots of room have less chance of developing leg problems and are less apt to eat droppings that are associated with overcrowding.
Check out this video from our Youtube channel. These birds are CRAZY!!!!
The Crazy Plants Nursery is a small greenhouse located at 22919 County Road 44a in Eustis, Florida., constructed to raise funds for Crazy Critters Inc.
Here is our Google Map location so you can see where you are in comparison to us...https://g.page/CrazyPlants?share
We are open normally Thursday thru Saturday from 10-3 but have added November 18th so please come out this weekend!
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We recently acquired two Rhea chicks from a bird sanctuary. We chose to raise them from hatchling so we can form a bond with them. The Rhea eggs are moved from the incubator to the hatcher at 35 days and are no longer turned. Eggs normally hatch at 36-38 days. Chicks are placed in a homemade brooder after one day in the hatcher. Rheas are from South America only and are limited within the continent to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
They are grassland birds and both species prefer open land. The greater rheas live in open grasslands, pampas, and chaco woodlands. We chose the Greater Rhea. The greater rhea is the largest of all South American birds and is related to ostriches and emus. These flightless birds use their long, powerful legs to outrun trouble.
Want to talk about exhausted! I am so tired and to make it worse I was injured by Jamie aka J' Normous the Sulcata Tortoise when I broke a fight up. He just ran right on top of me.
If that sounds bad you would not believe that Ken has been injured once, twice, three, well... I just stopped counting. He has cut himself, stabbed himself, and just worked himself to exhaustion.
Luckily the fence contractor did not get stuck in the sugar sand today like they did yesterday so it is getting done. Slower than we thought the guys from Byers Fence will be back tomorrow.
Slower not as in the workers are slow but just slow as in it seems a job is going to be easier than it is.
Nothing in life is as easy as it seems.
We just found out that the rental of the machine we need to use to dig those turtle ponds is over four hundred dollars a day. Since we need it for at least five days, it is a good thing we are hosting our Fall plant sale fundraiser Fall'n For Crazy Critters this weekend.
It sounds impossible but so did the fact we needed to install an eight-foot fence perimeter that would cost over fifty thousand dollars. But we did. Thanks to people just like you who come out to the nursery.
Thank you for helping us with the fence so we can upgrade our permits with the FWC and thank you for helping us get almost halfway to the goal for the turtle ponds.
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Crazy Critters Inc. was established to provide non-domestic, non-releasable animals with a safe and permanent home. The sanctuary has adopted animals including reptiles, birds, and assorted wildlife.
Once brought to the facility, these exotic animals are housed in naturalistic settings. Allowing propagation that is used for conservation.
Currently, this facility houses species of animals listed on CITES. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora is an international treaty to prevent species from becoming endangered or extinct because of international trade.
Adding, the Crazy Critters organization has produced offspring from species currently found on the IUCN's Red List. Established in 1964, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has evolved to become the world’s most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of animal, fungi and plant species.
Crazy Critters Inc. is a self-funded organization that depends on the greenhouse nursery to pay for the cost of housing exotic animals. The facility grows and sells species of plants such as succulent and cactus to support the care of the animals. Many too are listed on the IUCN's Redlist.
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Sempervivum (sem-per-VEEV-um)are beautiful outdoor succulents prized for their beautiful appearance and extremely resilient nature. Sempervivum literally means “live forever”. Sempervivums were considered sacred to Jupiter in Roman and Thor in Nordic mythology. The flower was said to resemble the beard of the God.
Sempervivum is a genus of hardy monocarpic alpine succulents in the family Crassulaceae.
Their natural habitats are typically 3000 to 8000 ft above sea level in mountainous regions of central and southern Europe and Mediterranean islands. In fact, these plants thrive in lean, fast-draining, gravelly or rocky soils.
Other names include thunder plant, liveforever, Jupiter’s eye, Thor’s beard, Aaron’s rod and hens & chicks.
With over 3,000 named sempervivum cultivars, these succulents are available in all colors, shapes, and sizes. Their colors change drastically throughout the season due to maturity, temperatures, sunlight exposure, and other factors.
Growers Hint:
Succulents need a lot of light, but for Hens and Chicks, there is such thing as too much sun. They are hardy outdoor plants that, once established, can tolerate an amazing amount of climatic extremes and neglect.
Acclimate by gradually move into bright shade, then partial sun, then direct sun over the course of 2 weeks
Try to plant in a location with morning sun and afternoon shade
Use trees or other landscape elements to filter light and shade succulents when temperatures exceed 80F
Water deeply in the morning or evening to cool the soil
Try to avoid excess winter moisture
Where Can Sempivivium Grow?
Hens and Chicks are hardy and can be grown throughout the USA. Sempervivum like cool nights and need a cold-dormant season to be healthy.
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They prefer growing zones 4-8. In colder areas, it may be beneficial to move the plants into a greenhouse or cover them during severe winter weather.
Sempervivum is most vulnerable to sunburn under the following conditions:
Sunlight exposure increases drastically over a short period of time
Plants are young and/or roots have not yet established
Air temperature is high
Soil moisture content is low
Hen & Chick Plant Propagation
Sempervivums reproduce vegetatively by offsetting around the base of the rosette. The quantity and speed at which babies are produced depend on the variety.
Sempervivums can be divided anytime during the spring/summer growing season. The baby chicks can be re-planted elsewhere or left to grow around the mother hen.
Growing from the offsets preserves the characteristics of each cultivar. Each offset will develop roots of its own and become independent of the parent plant as the connecting stolon withers. Some Sempervivums produce offsets on the end of long stolons and this root down at a distance from the parent plant, rather than producing a dense clump.
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Offsets can be removed when root development has begun and grown on separately as a method of propagation. This method preserves the characteristics of a named cultivar, which will not come true from seed. The stolon should be cut off just below the base of the offset to encourage roots to develop from the base of the rosette.
Sempervivums have star-shaped flowers with 8 – 16 petals, typically in pink or red although a few species have pale-yellow flowers. Sempervivum flowers often contain fertile seeds that can be easily be collected and grown. The fruit should be allowed to dry, crushed and the debris sieved to separate the seed.
Stratification after sowing by chilling in the fridge at 39 degrees Farenheight for a few weeks, or outdoors during the winter to improve germination. As hybridization is very common, seedlings are unlikely to breed true to type. However, this provides an opportunity to look for new and unusual forms among the progeny
Sempervivum Life and Death Cycle
Once a hen produces a chick, that chick will begin producing its own babies after only 1 season.
You should water regularly during the first growing season to establish an extensive root system. Once established you can reduce the frequency.
Sempervivum plants generally only live for 3 years, so the plants have 2 productive years before they die. After 3 years and having produced many baby plants a Sempervivum grows a tall center stalk that blooms before the plant dies. Unfortunately, cutting off the center stalk will not prevent the plant from dying.
Just Eat It!
Common Houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) young shoots and chubby leaves are edible raw.
They are crunchy and similar to cucumbers in taste and texture. The leaves can also be juiced to make a drink. This plant stores water in the leaves in a similar way to the aloe vera plant.
In fact, it can be used on sunburn or for other accidental burns in the same way. It is a good aloe vera substitute. Sempervivum leaves and their juice is used for their cooling and astringent effect, being applied externally to soothe many skin conditions. As with many other remedies that are both astringent and soothing, houseleek simultaneously tightens and softens the skin.
Sempevivium Is Medicine?
The fresh leaves are astringent, diuretic, odontalgic, refrigerant, and vulnerary.
They are used as a dressing in much the same way as Aloe vera. It is a great treatment of many skin diseases, burns, scalds, bites, and stings, etc, and has also has used to get rid of warts and corns.
The plant is also sometimes used internally in the treatment of shingles, skin complaints, and hemorrhoids, though some care is required since in excess the plant is emetic and purgative. The leaves are harvested as required and used fresh.
Be careful! In large doses, the houseleek can be purgative and upset the tum so take it easy if trying it for the first time.
Say What???
This European native plant was introduced to North America as a garden plant over 200 years ago.
In some places, Sempervivums are traditionally grown on roofs between thatching, tiles, or timber.
A firm in Germany exports Sempervivums as rolled-up carpets of roofing material.
Folklore tells us that it has the ability to protect a house from lightning and fire. Since it contains a large cache of water, there may be some truth in this.
In ancient times, this was thought to guard against thunderbolts, storms, and sorcery and ensure the prosperity of the occupants.
Traditional medicinal uses described by Pliny the Elder (23 – 79 AD) in his Naturalis Historiae include the use of the juice from crushed Sempervivum leaves to treat skin complaints such as burns, scalds, corns, calluses, warts, ringworm, shingles), insect stings shingles, itching, and burning of the eyes, and earache.
Discorides (40 – 90 AD) wrote in his Materia Medica that Sempervivum leaves crushed with wine would eliminate intestinal worms and flukes.
The Romans also consideredSempervivum juice to be useful against caterpillar infestation of crops.
Scientists at Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University have found that the mineral vaterite, a form (polymorph) of calcium carbonate, is a dominant component of the protective silvery-white crust that forms on the leaves of a number of alpine plants. Naturally occurring vaterite is rarely found on Earth. Small amounts of vaterite crystals have been found in some sea and freshwater crustaceans, bird eggs, the inner ears of salmon, meteorites, and rocks. This is the first time that the rare and unstable mineral has been found in such a large quantity and the first time it has been found to be associated with plants.
There are three common types of Sempervivum Hens and Chicks… but each type produces offspring in a different manner.
Sempervivum
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These grow babies on runners. Just pull off the chicks and plant elsewhere. It is best to remove the babies when the runner has begun to wither.
Offsets root quickly and contact with soil is enough for them to start growing.
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Jovibarba heuffelii
This species does not produce “chicks” on stolons. Instead, the offspring of this plant are produced within the mother plant.
To propagate it must be split with a knife.
Jovibarba Rollers
These types of Hens and Chicks produce lightly attached “chicks” that easily pop off and roll away from the mother plant.
Echeverias, share the common name “hens-and-chicks.”
Another group of rosette-forming succulents from Mexico.
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