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sorry can't hear you losers over the sound of my big beefy jade plant and its shiny ass leaves.
Your houseplants and gardens - Yellow leaf means underwatered AND overwatered?! What a country!
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I love blue mist flowers. I have a few potted and some in the ground, they're great. They're shockingly drought tolerant, too.
Bee balm wins, hands down. I have Monarda punctata bee balm and for the four months that it blooms, it is absolutely swarmed with all kinds of pollinators (except butterflies). It attracts all sorts of bees, wasps, beetles and others. It reseeds beautifully.
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Not impressed until you can get it to bloom.
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Thank you for the link!
I just can't do a whole lot about the light conditions other than moving though. Steven basically has the best seat in the house when it comes to sunlight already.
Putting up growth light is out of the question, because then all my 12 indoor plants will need one as well, and, no. Not doing that. Nope.
I can switch him with the neighbour plant on his shelf to get him about a meter closer to the windows, but that's all.
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well shit, i didn't even know they could bloom. but anyways, hydra is my spoiled princess and i don't know if putting it outside will cause it to instantly shrivel up in disgust after being exposed to the elements (i mostly kid but i am a little nervous about hydra suddenly catching like five different diseases as a cosmic prank. much like those shitass deer who grazed on the brand new hydrangeas i got for my wife but never touched them afterwards).
do blue mists need fuckheug planters for optimal growth? i know they aren't one of those flowers with taproots that get a zillion miles long, but apparently they can still go down to over twelve inches while the shoot system fluffs out.
edited because i meant to say more but didn't when i first posted this and now i can't remember what the rest of the sentence was.
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They do. Similar flowers to stonecrops, as they are related. I kid too, shrub form Crassula's need to reach considerable size before blooming. You would need a greenhouse and overwinter it in sunlight to induce flowering. It would be fine to summer outdoors. Have yet to see anything eating crassula leaves and the heavy wax coating prevents fungal diseases from establishing. Your jade plant would greatly benefit from some time outside. Just make sure you give it increasing amounts of sun before letting it sit in full sun and avoid letting it stay too wet from rain. From the looks from your window, you live in a high rainfall area.
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They definitely need a wide planter; I have some thriving in 6 inch deep pots, but they quickly become crowded with new shoots. I'm going to try repotting mine in a bowl planter.
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i emailed the hoa president about those winged euonymus bushes and he got back with some encouraging news: it's officially on the next yearly meeting's agenda for everyone to discuss since the whole process will probably be pretty costly, but he agreed native, non-invasives are the way to go and we're due for a landscaping update anyways. now the big concern is whether my proposal will get shot down because most of the other residents are either boomers or gen x'ers who only care about superficial appearances and short term costs. like, yeah it's not going to be cheap, but it's better to do this now instead of waiting until you have to dig out dozens of these fucking things, which will be even more expensive.
THE BARE ROOT FOAM FLOWERS ARE STARTING TO SEND UP THEIR FIRST LEAVES I HAVE NEVER FELT MORE MATERNAL IN MY LIFE. I LOVE BABY PLANTS.
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Easy cheat is to get the little pots of living herb from the supermarket. Take cuttings and put them in a little jar of water. After a few weeks they will grow roots. Pot them up and you’ll have herbs fresh all summer. Good way of making them last a lot longer
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Do you have pets that could be chewing on the leaves?
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Pets or insects or both would be my guess. That leaf on the lower left looks like thrip damage.
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I set this up in the rectory garden:
Patch 1 with the lil statue of St Francis is annuals - tomato and zucchini. Patch 2 is perennials, I’ve got asparagus (my MIL brought seeds and planted them in a container last year, but I don’t have full sun anywhere at my house so no reason not to replant them here) and strawberry, and also some peas just to fill the empty space around the asparagus. And then I put marigolds everywhere because those look nice if nothing else.
Patch 1 with the lil statue of St Francis is annuals - tomato and zucchini. Patch 2 is perennials, I’ve got asparagus (my MIL brought seeds and planted them in a container last year, but I don’t have full sun anywhere at my house so no reason not to replant them here) and strawberry, and also some peas just to fill the empty space around the asparagus. And then I put marigolds everywhere because those look nice if nothing else.
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I would also consider how you water it. Do you allow the excess water to drip out thoroughly? Ie not be reabsorbed by the plant causing mineral buildup. I have a pothos in a big vivarium where the water never gets to drip out, eventually causing small leaf defects (that look similar to yours) which I believe to be caused by mineral buildup on the roots.No petsso... insects?
Using systemic granules and insecticidal soap can’t hurt though as a general precaution.
ETA- looking more closely at your leaves in the photo, it does seem like you have some strange black dots. When I googled thrips this image came up which has similar looking black dots.
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Growing asparagus from seed is ambitious! I love asparagus, as a food crop and as an ornamental perennial. I have only ever managed to grow it from crowns, good to see that yours seem to have survived the transplant so far as they can be pretty fragile. Do you know which cultivar your mother in law grew?
Also, good to see how much of the turf in the rectory is white clover. As far as I am concerned all-clover & mixed clover-grass fields are vastly superior to all-grass in all relevant particulars.
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They're a little bit yellow, but idk what else to do now to help them besides let them be and water regularly (but not too much). I hope they will survive, I divided the container of roots into 4 pieces right before transplant and now I'm not so sure that was a good idea.
My MIL gave me stock for a purple cultivar of asparagus, I'm not sure the name of it, but it comes up this indigo-purple color and it has a very sweet taste. I got to try some from her very established bed of it in Beijing, and she says she got the seed from that stock. She also grows a green cultivar that has a higher yield and grows faster, but isn't as tasty.
The clover lawn attracts a lot of bunnies, that's for sure. In principle, this garden is supposed to produce food for the Food Pantry, but most of the time the wildlife gets to the produce before it's fully ripe. That's what the St. Francis statue is about; it's an inside joke about feeding God's critters. It's not a big deal if it doesn't yield a big harvest though, it still looks nice for our 8am outdoor summer services.
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i'm about to shit myself with glee, i happened to go to walmart today while they had a single purslane plant left, so i snapped that faggot up because i've been keeping an eye out for wild purslane to forage.
i also have zero self-control and got two bandana lantanas because their flowers are in my favourite colour -- however, the clearwing moth that visited while i was looking sealed the deal.
i also have zero self-control and got two bandana lantanas because their flowers are in my favourite colour -- however, the clearwing moth that visited while i was looking sealed the deal.
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Looks like a petunia to me but I’m not positive