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HAPPY MONDAY! My gorgeous Othonna Capensis (ruby necklace) is starting to bloom! This succulent is marvelous. Why?
1) their color changes depending on the amount of light they get.
2) Super easy to propagate. Clip and stick in soil.
3) The flowers are super cute!
4) Super easy to care for.
Do you grow one? Share any tips
Questions? Ask them away!
My Philodendron Imperial Red keeps growing! These are the things that make me smile & cheer me up. Yes, I’m struggling with some of my babies and I’m focusing my energy on them, but damn… we have to appreciate and value the good things happening around us every single day!
Philodendron Care:
Medium indirect light
Let them dry well between watering sessions. Remember to follow the finger test.
Regular Humidity
I haven’t fertilizer this one in the year I’ve grown her. I’ll update my care tips when I do.
Bird of Paradise From Seed Check ✅!!! THEY ARE GROWING!
This is so exciting, but from personal experience, it is still too soon to scream victory! Seedlings are especially sensitive to anything. Too much of this, too little of that, if you miss to check on them one day, then you might lose them.
I’m manually watering them and placing them outside during the day, for them to get full sun. Then taking them back in to protect them from the cold and outsiders
If you haven’t watched them, I posted about 3 videos of the process back in November if I remember right. It took about 8 weeks for them to sprout. This is week 10.
My baby!! I’ve grown this one from seed, a 3.5 year journey so far. Can’t wait for her to keep growing!
Questions? Ask them away!!!
Reorganizing my herbs bed
Most of my herbs are potted and buried in the soil. It makes it so much easier to control, but also easy to move around.
All of these were small when I planted them, the three rosemary bushes grew exponentially and they were keeping the sun from hitting the other herbs, so I moved them around.
I have:
- Rosemary in the back
- Sage on the right side
- Mint & lemon balm next to the sage
- Thyme in the front left side
- Geranium in the middle left side
- More lemon balm in front of the rosemary
Let’s see how they grow!
A little succulent decor I worked up in Photoshop with the mandala tool. The points are an easy way to mark the hours.
https://society6.com/product/mandala-cactus-botanical_wall-clock
I played the organ in Finish Lutheran church today. There was this nice haworthia
Cymbalaria
Green corner in coffee shop
My world is ruining
But still sun is shining and spring will come
Nobody wants this war
Found these guys at the bookstore
She loves plants
Pretty Diffenbachia from plant swap meeting makes roots
Seed parent vs seedling! The pink pigmentation is sensitive to environmental factors (heat, cold, light levels), so it can come and go, especially o young plants that stay shaded all day.
Hostas cycads begonias anoles
Euphorbia francoisiihybrids.
Synandrospadix vermitoxicus.
Amorphophallus impressus (or, more likely, the hybrid Amorphophallus lewalleiximpressus).
Fyi Far Reaches Farm has Boquilia trifoliolatain stock rightnow
Aechmea ‘Perez’.
Amorphophallus konjacxalbus ‘Mary Sizemore’. I was very surprised to see this one bloom, since I just received it in January, and it didn’t seem large enough yet. I presume it’s taking after the albus parent in this regard.
If you want to grow palms from seed, there is one very important thing you need to know: is your species an adjacent or remote germinator? The first kind can be started in shallow pots, or, as in this case of the Dypsis onilahensis seedlings in the top picture, a plastic clamshell container filled with about an inch of damp perlite. They germinated very well over the winter, kept indoors under lights, with nothing more than the occasional spritzing of water to keep humidity up in the closed container. They were in there for months, and finally got moved to a pot today.
The second kind are trickier; they must have a sufficiently deep container to successfully germinate, because if the radicle hits the bottom too soon, it will twist and cease to develop. For the second species here, Sabinaria magnifica, I started the two seeds I had in damp sphagnum, and,then when germination had just begun, transferred them into separate 10 inch tall cymbidium pots, about 2 inches under the surface. Months passed. In February, I dug one up and discovered it was rotten. The other, however, had an eophyll up, pale under the soil. Unfortunately, I broke off the seed in the process, but it was evidently developed enough to survive without it. It’s been growing steadily ever since.
Went to a nursery in Boerne yesterday, which was really fun, since it’s the old school dozen ancient janky greenhouses kind that no longer really exists in Austin. I didn’t actually get many pictures because there were too many things to be distracted by, but this decomposing ceiling fan was too magnificent to not record.
