The Plant Thread

[BlackCurtains]

Look at my little catnip sprouts!

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They even have little rainbows!

[pinkkittywinks]

The Venus Fly Trap has obviously alive and well as it has CAUGHT SOMETHING! There are legs sticking out of a shut trap, it is a little gruesome, but I am pleased it is feeling well.

That really is excellent news! How exciting!

I was surprised and excited to see it was showing signs of life, other than being green and planty

Guess what... it has CAUGHT SOMETHING ELSE! It must be hungry! Well I am not sure when it last had a meal of an insect.

Love pkw xxx

[Lady Frostbite]

Typical, it catches it when you don't see something going about!

Two of my Peach Ghost Scorpions are productive, I see more new fruits! I love peeling off their flowers that are wrapped around them like ballerina skirts lol The flowers are long dead so all the thing does is hang off the fruit. Looks like I might have more than one fruit off my chillies this year!!

[Taffeta]

PKW, every time you mention it eating something I have shivers.

[Ponyfan]

Here are the mint plants 2 weeks after repotting.  A magazine I looked at today had a short piece on how easy it is to grow mint.  According to that I am doing all of the right things for the mint plants.

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Mint 1

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Mint 2

The long brown things are the bbq skewers.


Ponyfan

[pinkkittywinks]

Those mints are looking good, the leaves look nice and green it is always nice to find information that says you are doing the right thing

Taffeta: it is rather gruesome!

Lady Frostbite; There have been tiny nats/flies buzzing about, but the Venus Flytrap obviously needs something a bit bigger to trigger the traps. ooh I have not heard of Peach Ghost Scorpions and fingers crossed for your chilli pepper

Love pkw xxx

[Taffeta]

Mint 1 is looking a lot happier! I guess it just needed a little time to grow its new leaves

We had a storm today, and some heavy rain, which is probably a good thing. I still had to water the stuff under the grape vine, though. At which point I realised the vine had decided to attach itself to a fuschia and my gooseberry plant. Whoops. Had to detach those.

We've had a full crop of gooseberries from that plant, which we ate yesterday. Good stuff

[Artemesia's Garden]

I got mine in early last week because the blackbirds were already stripping them. Luckily Monty reminded me. Anyone watch Gardener's World?

[Taffeta]

The blackbirds don't eat the gooseberries in our garden, for some reason. They also tend to leave the grapes alone. They will bother apples, but only if they've fallen. They DO dig up the garden a fair bit though.

None of the birds go after our gooseberries, though some do eat the grapes (which we mostly leave for them) and the raspberries (which we don't!).

[MoonstoneMew]

Out of curiosity, what is everyone's favorite personal plant or plant species? 

[pinkkittywinks]

Moonstone: Succulents!

I have noticed that my plants LOVE a good down pour and thunder storm, they are always bristling afterward and if they are small/seedlings/young plants have a growth spurt.

Love pkw xxx

[brightberry]

I really loved the Sunflower that came up last year.  It was huge! Almost 8 ft tall.

[Beth3346]

not much rain lately. my plants really don't like water from the hose as much as they like rainwater. no rain in the upcoming forecast either. the basil plant is looking a little yellow.

[BlackCurtains]

Out of curiosity, what is everyone's favorite personal plant or plant species? 

I love trees, do they count? Old oak trees specifically. I also love ferns, palms (the ponytail palm being a favorite), succulents, snake plants, and I don't know what they're called but they have multi colored leaves, like green and pink. I'm not much for flowers.

Ben is doing really well and he's getting pretty big. My catnip is also doing well and some of the sprouts have sprouts

[Beth3346]

yes old oak trees are wonderful. i like to wonder how much they've seen over their time here. I don't really have a favorite plant. When i was a kid i really thought snapdragons were cool. I like basil because it tastes and smells good