Morning glory Grandpa Otts: this electric beauty surprises me every morning as its trumpets open at different places on the vine. I managed to keep the slugs off (garlic spray!) when they were babies, so now about a dozen plants are climbing through the August garden. Each flower opens for just one day. But what a day.
Flushing and checking the mini bog. Everything is pretty well anchored in at this point, but I still got pretty nervous when pouring off the water. TDS (total dissolved solids) was creeping up (lower is better) and pH should be acidic, but might have been bit more acidic before flushing than the Pinguiculas actually like (not entirely sure on that though). I swapped the lighting to a lower wattage also.
Haven't posted a pic of my Aloe plants in awhile. In the last few months, the pup "junior" has been struggling. I'm not sure why, but i've moved it into a better window in hopes that it will do better.
The other plants are doing well, to the point where I can no longer tell which one was the weaker one when i first got them. Unfortunately one of them I've forgotten to rotate so it's got a pretty obvious tilt.
Googling potato maturation time (seeing the leaves on my potatoes turning yellow at the bottom [normal] and red at the tips [normal?]) and stumbled across a very wholesome reddit thread where people are learning that you can just slam a potato into the ground and get a lot more potatoes.
A day of discovering delicious food and exploring vibrant plant nurseries @ Sungai Buloh.
This area, once home to the second-largest leprosy settlement called the Valley of Hope, now thrives with beautiful nurseries which were once managed by leprosy patients, some of whom are still tending to the greenery.
Plant Masto, can anyone recommend a good lamp for overwinter for my succulent friend here?
Right now, Mildred is the healthiest she's ever been after spending the summer outside, but she loses color and stretches out bad whe I bring her in for the winter, even with the halo lamp I bought.
Is there a specific one that might be better at mimicking sunlight?
...not for good reasons though. Wish this would stop happening every year. Glad we're finally getting some coverage of it though; you'd think after the arson last year there would've been at least some attention.
It took a while with a few false starts and there were times I almost threw it away thinking it was dead but I'm glad I stuck with it and here's what it looks like now. This time they grew a lot of air roots which looks a bit weird but it seems stable.
Doing some spring pruning today. I usually like to let the plants grow the way they want, but in this case (and with some other plants I'll be trimming) they get too unbalanced and can topple over or stem weakening. This Pachyphytum Oviferum branched and offset/cloned a new smaller plant, and then grew sideways.
It was really cute and I wanted to leave it like this but the head of the original plant was too heavy to support over time.
This Echeveria Lola succulent is about four years old. I had tried before to propagate it with leaf pullings without success. Late last summer it shifted in the pot with a different growth pattern (it looked healthy otherwise) and it seems it was making some room for more. This is the first watering of the year (I think) and I trimmed out the dead leaves that were covering the offsets and replaced it with a light cover of Seramis.
Je donne des graines de calebasse si ça intéresse des gens.
(Y'en a 20 dans chaque paquet. Test de germination concluant)
ça se mange pas mais ça couvre joliment un grillage moche et c'est parfait si on aime passer de longues soirées pluvieuses à bricoler des vases ou autres bols. #plantstodon#jardinage#crafting
Evidently, it’s flowering season for my carnivorous butterworts! This is my favorite - Pinguicula cyclosecta.
This species has purplish leaves arranged in a tidy rosette, complemented by striking deep purple flowers. Unfortunately, the flowers on this particular species tend to fade quickly within two or three days, so have to enjoy it while it lasts.
Some plants are trickier to water than others :) Also, it needs a re-potting and better light setup (it looks like some parts are getting too much light and others too little). This is a Sedum Morganianum aka Donkey or Burro's Tail. In the old location it was hanging from a hook and now it's just kind of draped over a shelf. When the leaves fall off as they do with each move and watering I just drop them back into the pot.