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Arsenic Lupin posted:At the very least, you'll need to mix the clay half and half with organic matter in an area the size of a bushel basket around the rhododendron, and then it will still be in a 'pot' surrounded by water after each rain My dad treats the North Carolina clay exactly as if he were preparing a potted plant. He'll dig (with a pick and mattock) to create a bowl the size of the plants eventual root system, then use a long drill bit to literally drill drainage holes through the bottom of the clay and back fill with heavily amended soil. You have to make the pot as big as it will be because you can't really "up-pot" something, and the clay is a completely impermeable barrier. He's using Daikon radish to try and break up then self compost, but this is their second year there so we'll see if it does anything.
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Is this Euonymus Japonicus?  I've never seen flower or fruit but I love it in that corner
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Soul Dentist posted:Is this Euonymus Japonicus? Anybody got a guess? ID app has it as "probably a box" of some sort
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I think I might have the only two healthy Bradford pears in the whole world: They need a ton of thinning out and to be trimmed up a hair but they are huge and sturdy and won't even drop a twig in 50 knot wind. Unfortunately they do smell like poo poo and drop gross fruit but here's a neighbor's tree from that same windstorm:  It may help that they are original Bradford and not the hybridized Callery versions that grow wild but not much. I can't wait until I can tear them down and open the southeast side of my house to sunlight.
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Fair, but I think the Bradfords are at the end of their expected life so I'm gonna need to pull em soonish
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Brawnfire posted:After today's hot spell and massive rainstorm, I think I can probably promise some really nice iris blooming pics tomorrow. Very excited to see these in action! Those are star-of-bethlehem and I love seeing them pop up!
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OSU_Matthew posted:Thanks! I'll poke around some nurseries, that's a good thought. I was worried that might be a bit too broad to ask, but I'm basically looking for 6'ish tall and narrow plants and possibly shrubs. Oh, I'd also say it's about 60-40 shade/sun there I like Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't for entertainment value as well as an intense blizzard of knowledge. Heard about it in this very thread too.
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Thanks to this thread I went to the home depots and picked up every decent echeveria I could find and a pot to stick them in with gritty mix: Clockwise from top: Echeveria subsessilis Echeveria Hybrid 'Rico' Echeveria Hybrid 'Sleepy' Echeveria Hybrid 'Licorice' Echeveria 'Artic Ice' PP29584 My wife got an echeveria a while ago that got super etiolated before it came into our care and died when we tried to repot without looking up info so this is like an apology. I brushed out all the roots I felt comfortable and kept a couple pups while clearing all the lovely petals. Question: will they fight for space in this situation?
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Unless you got wood burning a hold in your pocket go with the wire shelves. Woods expensive nowadays, and if the shelves you were going to build are the ones I'm imagining the jank factor is the same either way
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Crosspost from the Costco thread:Soul Dentist posted:Went to church to pick up my colonoscopy prep and found incredibly cheap 5" succulents to sweeten the deal:
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Jhet posted:Those are really neat looking. But your church sure has different services than I've ever seen if they do colonoscopy prep. $19 for those cute little pots without the plants is a good deal. Lol that's a thread joke. PBUC
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Here's what I did with those Costco succccs:
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Try tulips. I hear they're more stable
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Yeah make them actually plant your tree. Take pictures and be prepared to be bewildered about what is supposed to be included in transplanting a tree. That's some bullshit
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Do you want stumps in the middle of your generic suburban arborvitae?
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Join your local arboretum
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I've pulled my succulents but not my spiny yucca or potted chilies. Hoping for second summer like always happens here in Kentucky
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Help! My Christmas tree (decorated, in the house for two weeks) has a cinara aphid infestation. Is there something I can do that won't ruin the ornaments or (secondarily) the tree? I have neem oil, soap, sprayers, etc...
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Well I shook out like two hundred or so, vacuumed up and sprayed as much as I could with just Dawn and water. Update in the morning! P.S. these fuckers look like halfway between a bedbug and a tick at first glance and there were so many: 
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Christmas tree update: removed ornaments and left to sit in the cold: E:  Some festive yucca elephantipes instead Soul Dentist fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Dec 23, 2022 |
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Horticulture: Soiling Yourself Inside and Out
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I. M. Gei posted:I forgot if fruit tree poo poo goes in this thread or the Gardening thread. You don't follow advice super well so I'll follow you here to say again: mischief posted:Choose violence. I'm perfectly happy with all kinds of critters on our property but the little bushy tailed assholes get the dirt nap.
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This year both trees are putting out a lot more fruits and I wanna keep em all from getting stoled by fuckin rodents or whatever the gently caress else steals peaches so I can actually eat one of them this time.
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They're better than roses on your piano no matter where you put them!
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That's some saturation
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Another ID question! I got some free plants from a swap about a month ago that were just labeled "daylily." The foliage and bulbs looked like it to me, but one just bloomed and it looks like none I've seen:  The clusters of blooms still look like a daylily, but the ID app says it's spiderwort. Any ideas?
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Yeah leaves and flowers definitely look like a tradescantia of some sort. There are a gazillion of them and they are pretty weedy around here. Is it a rogue spiderwort that happed to be chilling out in the middle of a clump of daylilies? There is a good chance the goober who put a five gallon bucket full of "daylilies" on the ground at a plant swap at this upcycling hobby shop had absolutely no idea what they were. It's pretty and most of them didn't survive because I had to wait out a frost with them in the bucket. I'll probably see what pops up next spring and interplant lilies or irises that I buy myself. It's on the easement anyways so there's no high hopes
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Ugh on Hosta Day of all days too
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Yeah if I even brush the poppy seeds off a bagel into a prepared bed they'll germinate, but I've never tried to transplant them
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Real hurthling! posted:Tyvm! I asked the 
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Soul Dentist posted:Another ID question! Turns out I've got some really nice daylilies in the back yard already that could use some splitting. They are on the shady side of a fence so they popped up really late: 
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Get moldy, probably
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It does not(!) like being transplanted once it's established a tap root though
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I mean, three hundred years from now it might start to get nice
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I planted some hostas this weekend, along with a camellia (Kramer Supreme) and a mountain Laurel (Olympic Fire):
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That kind of spiny yucca doesn't do well in 7b. You could just cram the new piece in the base of the old pot and start lower layers
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kid sinister posted:There's a reason an alternate name for them is "mother in law's tongue". The reason is they are sharp/pointed
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