The Plant Thread

[BlackCurtains]

My new plants

Zeb, the snake plant. There are actually two in there. I will eventually have to separate them and put them in their own pots.

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Sheila the ponytail palm! Aster has been trying to eat her. She's non-toxic but I would prefer if Aster stuck to her own cat grass.

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Sorry this one is crooked.

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[HelloGoodbye]

Beautiful!!!  I love that ponytail palm especially!  My cats are also always trying to eat my plants.  Eventually I had to give up and put all my plants in the same room and lock my cats out of it hahaha

[BlackCurtains]

I live in a tiny one bedroom and there's really no place I can put them, unless I hang them all from the ceiling. I can't do that be myself, so. They are grouped by the window. I make sure all my plants are non-toxic to cats so if she does end up munching on them, it won't hurt her.

[Taffeta]

Look at the little Benlets go! They've come on hugely in a really short time frame!

I agree about watering after the sun goes down unless it's an emergency. Also putting them in the shade if you can. Some of them might also like to be misted...though that's worth looking up as not all plants like it. The Ficus might though.

I put my Streptocarpus back on the desk as we had a hottish spell (today is rain though). I'm debating taking off some of her bigger leaves as she has a lot of new growth and it's putting some strain on her.

The dragon tree seems to be doing ok in the new pot - so far, but it takes a long time for stressed leaves to grow out.

My spider plants have been outside since June, so aside checking them occasionally, I don't spend a lot of time interacting with them at the moment. With the rain/sun climate we've been having, it's kept them quite happy. They are flowering, but I will need to remove the stems before they can produce pups.

[BlackCurtains]

Benlets I know, right?! I think I need to put bamboo skewers in with them because they are reaching for the sun and are both very crooked.

Aster learned fast not to chew on the palm tree. All I have to do is say 'no' in a stern voice and she gets spooked. She has her own grass to eat.

I also bought some dandelion seeds and some protein sprouting seeds for my salads and smoothies. I think dandelion is okay for cats? I need to look it up.

[Heart Of Midnight]

Wow, Zeb, the snake plant! I love this plant and would like one for myself! It's so easy to care for that it would be just right for me! In Finnish, it is Anopinkieli (ie, directly translated into English, it would be mother-in-law's tongue. The snake plant is a much better name for it.) 

I also once had a ponytail palm and the cats liked to chew on it.  Fortunately,( as far as I remember,) it is not a poisonous plant. At least the cats didn't get any symptoms from it. 

[Ponyfan]

Thanks BC and Taffeta.  Hopefully my plants will survive. They're all Walmart plants, (except the Ficus. It was a gift).  so I know the quality probably isn't as good as they would be from a home/garden store. Both of the mints turned out so well, that I didn't think twice about buying more plants from Walmart.

The Ficus does seem to like being misted.  I had been watering it by pouring water in the pot, but when my mom was doing for me while I was recovering, she started misting it.  It's put out a bunch of new leaves since then.

My mom repotted the sage for me today. The roots weren't growing out of the drainage holes yet, but it was growing taller in the nursery pot.   I'm still on restrictions after my medical procedure, so she did everything.  Usually, I go out with my mom and try to help her repot plants.


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Edit: Adding the pics of the other plants. 


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Mint 1

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Please ignore my hand.  It was the only way to get a pic  of what the partially dead stems look like.  I don't want to cut the healthy parts of the stems when I'm trying to rid of the dead ones.

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The lavender has the same issue.  Healthy green leaves on top of dead looking stems.


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Mint 2 is looking like a mint bush.


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Strawberry plant

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Extra pic of plants on the deck. 


Also part of the huge mullberry tree that hangs over part of the deck.


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Mom's aloe.  I tried to get a pic so you could see the baby aloes growing in the same pot, but I don't know if I was successful.

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Ficus



BC, your new plants (including the Benlets look great. )


Ponyfan

[Beldarna]

I decided to take in and dry my mint. I love to drink mint tea in the winter . It's kind of a big bouquet.

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Also, showing off my coleus who has grown and is drowning out my ficus.

[BlackCurtains]

Those red plants are gorgeous!

[Beldarna]

Thanks, they are very colourful. They dry up and crumble on the floor so not the tidyest of plants but they're easy to make cutlings off and I love them .

[Ponyfan]

Beldarna, your red plants are really pretty.


Here's this week's pics of the plants. 

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Mint 2

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Mint 1


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Lavender


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Sage

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Strawberries


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Ficus



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Mom's aloe.

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This is mom's other plant.  It's an anthurium.  She is wondering if it is dying.  She's followed the instructions on the little tag with the plant.




Ponyfan

[BlackCurtains]

Mint 2 is gorgeous

In my experience, yellowing is a sign of overwatering but I'm not an expert. I just know all the plants I've killed turned yellow before they died, even my sister's aloe. Who kills aloe in Florida, where it grows wild all over? Me, that's who.

[Taffeta]

Beldarna, I saw the pics and was about to ask if that was coleus when I saw your note underneath. I wanted some of that for the basket this year. I used to have one in the house, too, years ago. They're such pretty plants

Ponyfan, I know nothing about anthurium, but some plants do go through cycles/go dormant at certain times. My sister's calla lilies always do (and at times completely different from when they're meant to). They die down completely then spring up again. The Amaryllis we have downstairs don't quite do that, but they do go through cycles with their leaves, especially after flowering. So they can have quite a lot of dead matter and then start over from the middle. No idea if your mum's plant is like that but it may be so.

It may also be overwatering or underwatering, but the second leaf looks reasonable at the moment?

My Dragon Tree is starting to look better since the repot, thank goodness.

Poinsettia has had another trim so that I can actually see the television without her leaves being in the way again Not sure if she's amused or not.

Our tomato plants outside are now supplying fruit.

Slightly off topic, but as I write this I'm watching the baby bluetits hop all over my buddleia (and around the window). Hopefully they won't collide with the glass, since we lost a baby sparrow a week or two ago from that :/ Two confused baby pigeons in the tree as well. It's a nice time in the garden here

[Ponyfan]

The plants are dying.  That big green leaf fell off the anthurium and two large stems broke off the lavender plant.


Ponyfan

[BlackCurtains]

It's probably the heat