The Plant Thread

[BlackCurtains]

I think the fertilizer is working! So many new leaves on most of the plants.

Areca palm, peacock, hurricane fern and African violet.

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African Violet, I think this is the rose bush, but I won't know until it flowers. The other one died.

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New leaf on the snake plant. I think it's time to put it in a bigger pot.

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Ben isn't doing so well.

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Since I've been watering the ponytail palm more, it has new leaves shooting out everywhere.

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[Ponyfan]

Your plants except  Ben look great BC.

I moved most of the plants outdoors today. I'm going to wait a little longer on moving the lemon thyme and dill outside.


The dill seems to grow more every time I look at it.

Ponyfan

[BlackCurtains]

Thanks Yeah, I think old Ben is getting close to the end. I cut off the dead branches.

Your mom's aloe looks great. I'd like to get one.

[Ponyfan]

It's a Starry Night aloe. 


I put the dill outside and when I went back about an hour later, it looked awful.  It was limp and it looked like part of the new growth had already broken off. I quickly rushed it and the lemon thyme back inside.  I'm thinking now I might have to repot it before putting it outside as I think the stem might be too tall to support it outside.


Ponyfan

[Taffeta]

Some of my summer plants arrived while I was down south and Dad has taken very good care of them all. Everyone is doing fine. The glory lily seedling on my windowsill has put out a second leaf. I am learning from the datura and not putting it in the greenhouse until it is a lot bigger. There are also a bunch of small lewisia plants in the dining room at the moment, which are the ones that arrived while I was away.

My gooseberry plant is covered in flowers and bees. I hope we'll get a crop this year. Bluetits have continued their war against my purple/blue themed plants by beheading the flower stems on my new purple heuchera. The plant is fine, though. No idea what their problem is; they've left the others alone.

We're going to put all last year's begonia tubers into a tub and see what comes up. There should be a mix of colours, it'll be fun to see what we get.

Sorry that Ben is reaching his age, BC. He's had a great innings with you taking care of him.

Ponyfan, that aloe is very pretty. My sister and my parents have aloes (I used to but I have no idea what happened to it). They flower beautifully in the summer.

[Lady Frostbite]

My pink Anthurium that was a Mother's Day sale victim has 'stabilised' I would say. I repotted it in orchid bark in a nice big pot and cut off the dead/diseased leaves and flowers. There's one flower that should be cut off as it's rotted in the middle, but overall I think the plant is doing okay. She needs a lot of care but she's soaking up the light in the kitchen.

I miss not growing chillies ... I have so many seeds and I have a couple of tomato and carrot seeds as well, plus little daisy seeds. I NEED A GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE!

[Ponyfan]

I had plant pics all ready to load in Flickr, but it's looking really strange on my browser.  I tried another one and the site looked fine so I'm not sure what's going on when it looks okay in one browser, but not another.  I checked my Zoom and changing it didn't make a difference.

Edit: It was my Zoom.  It was set so high that it was making the page look weird.

Here's the pics:


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Strawberries


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The aloe looks terrible now. 


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Dill


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Lavender

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Lemon Thyme.  I just put it back outside today.


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Mint 1


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Mint 2


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I forgot to get a pic of the Ficus and poinsettia. 

My dad put some old chairs up on the deck. It makes it a little difficult to  reach the plants.  I managed, but I wish he would have been thinking about what he was doing when he moved the chairs.


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[Ponyfan]

I put a BBQ skewer in the dill pot and used a little piece of twisty tie wire to loosely secure the dill to the skewer.  I'm hoping the skewer will help support the dill better when I put it outside.


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[BlackCurtains]

Oh I wonder what happened to the aloe?

I have gnats! I think they're in the spider plant mainly but I can't tell. Luckily, I have some sticky spikes to put in the dirt.

Everything is growing like crazy.

[Ponyfan]

I put the dill outside and the hailstorm got it.   I was hoping it would survive, but when I checked on it earlier, it was almost uprooted because the broken stems were so heavy, they were trying to pull the dill out.  I cut the broken stems off and I'm hoping that it will be okay.  It looks brown instead of green though.

I think there are too many aloes in the pot.  You can't see them in the pics but there are lots of babies under the big ones.


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