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| Perennials! |
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142 | 20.91% |
| Annuals! |
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30 | 4.42% |
| Woody plants! |
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62 | 9.13% |
| Succulent plants! |
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171 | 25.18% |
| Tropical plants! |
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60 | 8.84% |
| Non-vascular plants are the best! |
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31 | 4.57% |
| Screw you, I'd rather eat them! |
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183 | 26.95% |
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7thBatallion posted:Any idea how I can get a few kudzu seeds? I'd like to try growing in indoors, fry some leaves up, make a salad, and generally have a houseplant that grows faster than bamboo.. Does it grow wild near you? Most of the kudzu around here has fruit right now. Lovely hairy pods.
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Sep 9, 2014 00:29
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I was thinking of setting up a carnivorous terrarium down the line when I have the time. Some of them work pretty well with fluorescent lighting and controlled humidity and heating, but others are terrible fits and should just go on a windowsill or outside.
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Oct 23, 2014 00:35
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A sulfur-based anti-fungal spray is what I usually see recommended. I just had to spray some on my seed tray because I had the same thing happening. It hasn't been long enough to say if it's gonna work though.
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Mar 5, 2015 18:39
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No light? Have you considered mushrooms?
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Mar 29, 2015 00:15
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kedo posted:Weird, I had no idea young trees would have differently shaped leaves. Thanks for the info! Check out what a single mulberry tree can do: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Morus_alba-leaves.jpg
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May 5, 2015 15:09
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kid sinister posted:I thought all carnivores were bog plants? Are Nepenthes considered bog plants?
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May 26, 2015 23:02
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Based on the rounded teeth on the leaves, I think it's either a white or black mulberry. Too bad you didn't luck out and get a red one.
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Aug 2, 2015 20:31
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Well the weed with the colorful berries looks like some sort of nightshade.
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Aug 15, 2015 05:10
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bog pixie posted:Does anyone know, even in general, what kind of plant would look like a fern but have tiny flowers and something like seeds growing underneath each stem instead of spores on the leaves? I'm pretty sure I know what you're talking about, and I spent a whole semester of Plant Tax wondering what it was, but no one would tell me because that would be cheating in the class. I just wanted to know what the drat plant was.
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Aug 18, 2015 16:06
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robotindisguise posted:Common weed in the south? I cannot for the life of me remember the full name, but it starts with Egyptian... That's it. Phyllanthus urinaria
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Aug 18, 2015 22:00
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For air flow, you can modify a computer fan to plug into an outlet. They're small and already designed for mounting, so they work well.
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Oct 6, 2015 17:22
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foxatee posted:My daughter and I were walking around the neighborhood and came across this weird thing: That really looks like some sort of dogwood to me. Like an undeveloped Cornus kousa fruit.
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Oct 7, 2015 03:45
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Kenning posted:I'm glad your butt is blooming! That's pretty exciting. These are great. A few of those are on my list for next time I'm drunk-ordering more plants that I don't have time for. All of my CPs are sitting outside dormant and boring right now, so the other day I put together a terrarium for sundews. I've only got seeds in there so far, but I hope to have a nice subtropical collection before too long.
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Jan 29, 2016 02:58
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jackpot posted:I've got a tree in the backyard that forks from the trunk in three directions, creating a hollow space in the middle that collects rainwater; it stays there for days sometimes. This can't be healthy, right? I think it could lead to rot down the line, but there isn't much you can do if it's at the base of the tree. You might want to throw mosquito dunks in it if it's full of larvae.
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May 9, 2016 19:42
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Erodium, I think.
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May 31, 2016 20:14
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That planting hole is really small. The soil needs more surface area to cycle oxygen and such. I don't know if the planter will interfere with that or not. And I've never worked with water bags but I can't imagine that one is necessary. Wouldn't those promote fungal growth on the trunk? Especially over a period of 6 years? The problem might just be that they planted a crappy tree in a crappy hole. e: urban trees are usually planted in mineral soil (dried up rock piles) anyway, so don't worry about that. Organic soils would have to be replenished regularly as they break down. Fitzy Fitz fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Jun 7, 2016 |
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Jun 7, 2016 14:26
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Trees can handle a single flooding event fine. The problem would be if your neighbor's drain continues to keep your tree submerged regularly.
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Jun 7, 2016 15:22
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What about just squishing the things?
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Jul 1, 2016 19:01
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Kenning posted:By the way, a bit of news: I've been working at Predatory Plants since November, so I pretty much think about carnivorous plants 24/7 now. Also if you order plants from us, I will probably ship it. Let me know if you order something and I'll make sure to get you the plumpest sundews and most succulent flytraps. drat, I wish you'd mentioned this like 5 days ago!
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Jul 9, 2016 03:39
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I had serious issues with carnivorous plant seeds earlier this year, but I have a bunch coming up now. I think fungus gnat larvae were eating the seedlings' roots, because even my Drosera seedlings were dying and those should be easy.
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Aug 3, 2016 19:12
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What are the chances that I'll be able to successfully transplant these volunteer cardinal flower rosettes in the spring? They're mixed with a Sarracenia. I'd love to leave them in there, but it would probably get very crowded. http://imgur.com/a/mZUWA All of my actual plantings were eaten by slugs.
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Aug 20, 2016 17:28
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life is killing me posted:My wife loving hates desert plants, and insists on buying a bunch of annuals so that we will constantly have to buy new plants and re-plant all the time. Someone in another thread where I'm getting advice on my drainage and hill erosion issues had said to stick with native plants instead of trying to make our house look like something it isn't, so IDK. Maybe you can convince her to like certain desert plants, even if they aren't native ones? There are all sorts of colorful succulents out there. It's really going to be a losing battle trying to force plants to grow in unfavorable conditions, and it's a shame that's usually what people try to do instead of working with what they have.
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Sep 22, 2016 14:19
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anatomi posted:What is this and how do I take care of it? Lady in the store said to keep the pot in water and make sure the plant's in a humid environment. Currently keeping it in a cloche in the window. I think it's a Drosera capensis.
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Oct 1, 2016 17:17
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Warbird posted:Muscadine vine: This is the problem child. I've moved it inside, but it clearly isn't enjoying it. The leaves are starting to turn yellow and fall off. I'm concerned that the pot it's in is too small and would be more susceptible to cold/frost than a larger one with more insulating soil. Muscadines are deciduous and will lose their leaves anyway. They need a winter dormancy. Just how cold does it get where you are? It will probably be fine outside with some insulation.
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Nov 18, 2016 15:34
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Warbird posted:I'm just north of Charlotte, so it's relatively mild compared to most of the country, but it does get fairly cold. Talk to me about insulation and what that entails please. Also, is my concern regarding these plants being in pots and them being more susceptible to cold because of it warranted? Pots are more susceptible to temperature changes, but that isn't necessarily a concern with temperate species. They're designed to handle freezing temperatures. It just depends on how cold hardy that particular species is. Your muscadine is probably fine as-is, but you could put some pine straw or mulch on the soil. If you're worried about wind, you could put up a barrier or wrap the pot in something.
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Nov 18, 2016 17:38
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Hey, Kenning: I just got a VFT and D. madagascariensis in the mail from Predatory Plants. I've potted up the latter already, but I do you have any idea if I can give the VFT a refrigerator dormancy as is? The rest of my VFTs are outside, but I don't see any point in potting this one and putting it outside if I can just throw it in my fridge for a while instead. Maybe just add some neem oil for fungicide? Really like the packaging btw. I was not expecting moss to pop out of the box.
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Nov 19, 2016 00:09
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Are you putting the original pot inside the new pot? You can just pull the plant+dirt out and stuff it into the new one.
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Dec 1, 2016 22:06
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Yeah, that definitely sounds overwatered (and like fungus gnats). I wonder if you could put a fan on it to evaporate the water more quickly.
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Dec 20, 2016 21:01
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I have an LED that I use for my seed shelf. The light output is great, but the purple coloration is annoying. I wouldn't want to use it for a display plant.
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Dec 23, 2016 16:13
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I've seen a truck bed full of dirt that had a bunch of plants growing in it. He wasn't even trying to do that; he was just too lazy to get the dirt out, so he drove around with it like that.
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Dec 24, 2016 03:45
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I have a screw-in LED like that. The plants directly under it (maybe 1' away) have turned bright red from all the light. It's working for the surrounding plants too, but I do have the whole setup wrapped in foil.
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Jan 2, 2017 01:54
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I like my moss almost as much as I like most of my plants. I collect the stuff and throw it into random pots as ground cover.
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Jan 23, 2017 05:21
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I'm kinda interested in using clover as a winter cover crop.
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Jan 29, 2017 17:09
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Cool, thanks. I do see crimson clover recommended some for here (GA), but there's a wider variety of other options than I realized.
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Jan 29, 2017 21:54
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I order most of my plants online. There are some great online nurseries (don't know of any with roses tho). Usually the only concern is exposure to extreme temperatures during shipping, but a lot of places will do heat packs this time of year if the plant is sensitive to cold.
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Jan 30, 2017 14:11
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That's some of the worst tree placement I've ever seen. I hate being aware of bad landscaping. My neighbors have a volunteer bush honeysuckle that their landscapers have begun maintaining and pruning like it belongs there. The apartments I walk by every day just topped/murdered their crape myrtles that were previously not all that bad. I had to ban my own landscapers (landlord hires them) from my backyard because they kept whacking the flower bed and blowing all the leaves into the vegetable garden. Also they pissed on my fence.
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Mar 12, 2017 15:58
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https://www.reddit.com/r/landscaping/ There are some helpful people there.
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Mar 23, 2017 20:52
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Are there too many to just pull off by hand?
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Mar 24, 2017 23:27
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I have a spider plant cutting that was rooted in water and then moved to soil. It's been a year now and the thing is still pathetic.
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Apr 4, 2017 16:22
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First pic is definitely grass.
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Apr 26, 2017 19:26
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