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NICE photo. I've never seen a tulip from that angle, and it's great. Sigh. I'm still in a no-garden situation, and Old House Gardens is having its clearance sale on spring-planted bulbs. Ain't no way I can get a 4-foot dahlia in a container.
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Apr 29, 2024 17:42
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 Finally cooperating
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Apr 29, 2024 17:44
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Nice! Do you plant anything in it when bulb season is over?
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Apr 29, 2024 18:40
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Nice! Do you plant anything in it when bulb season is over? Yes. Its a shade garden at the bottom of an airshaft between buildings. 2-3 hours of morning sun in summer. I usually put impatiens and creeping petunia vines after the bulbs and we did fall/winter cabbages this past year too. Its just a cheap way to make a weird ugly roof/escape route outside my window look good.  Small startup cost and low seasonal budgets but it makes a big difference Real hurthling! fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Apr 29, 2024 |
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Apr 29, 2024 19:08
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Real hurthling! posted:Yes. Its a shade garden at the bottom of an airshaft between buildings. are there any SHADY VINES that might be good for ya.
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Apr 29, 2024 19:15
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bagmonkey posted:
What on earth?!? That is beautiful.
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Apr 29, 2024 21:02
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Real hurthling! posted:
And these are stunning!
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Apr 29, 2024 21:02
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Saw Empress Wu and a couple other neat hostas at one of the Home Depot’s, the other one and the Lowe’s didn’t have much interesting. I’ll be trying to make it out to a few of the greenhouses in the next week or two to see what’s up over there. This is bagmonkey with the hosta report
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Apr 30, 2024 01:25
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i have a very nice and healthy and happy sum and substance and i'm gonna start stalking the stores for an empress wu 
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Apr 30, 2024 01:36
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kid sinister posted:No, it doesn't flower from the tips like an abelia. Buttonbush
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Apr 30, 2024 03:44
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I think in a few weeks the weird hosta guy down the street is going to start selling offshoots again, which I am looking forward to, but I may have to look further afield to track down a Sum and Substance. My aunt has one and it's monstrous. Empress Wu is holding out at four shoots, which is two more than it had last year when I planted it, so we'll see what happens. Some of my others haven't come up yet but I put them in last year and don't know what to expect from them in terms of early vs. late growth. It crossed my mind today that for a while hostas were named after some German botanist whose name was Funke and were called funkia instead of hosta and that seems very silly! In non-hosta plant news, the deadly nigjtshade a friend gave me appears to have survived the winter, which absolutely delights me as I believe it's a bit of a chancy prospect in this climate.
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Apr 30, 2024 04:13
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We have plenty of nightshade if you ever need any more.
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Apr 30, 2024 04:30
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Mad Hamish posted:I think in a few weeks the weird hosta guy down the street is going to start selling offshoots again, which I am looking forward to, but I may have to look further afield to track down a Sum and Substance. My aunt has one and it's monstrous. Empress Wu is holding out at four shoots, which is two more than it had last year when I planted it, so we'll see what happens. Some of my others haven't come up yet but I put them in last year and don't know what to expect from them in terms of early vs. late growth. I think I saw a Sum and Substance at a big box store recently, I will double check when I go back! As for Empress, this is TECHNICALLY my second Empress and the first one I've had that has really taken. My other one lives at my parents house, it's about 1/3rd the size of my current Empress and for whatever reason has just never been happy enough to have the oomph my current Empress does. I'll take comparison pictures once both are fully stretched out. My current Empress is going to have another record year, I'm so freaking excited. The only hosta that's doing meh is my praying hands, it's on a fence line and I'm not sure why it's not coming back strong. Oh well, gotta tear up that area anywho cuz we're removing the fence! Which, once done, grants me a permit to plant two (2) more hostas!!!!!
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Apr 30, 2024 14:13
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Anybody got any blue hostas? I know it's just a wax coating, but a goon can dream. 
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Apr 30, 2024 22:13
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I get so mad when I see a blue plant or orchid or something and it's food coloring or otherwise fake. It should be Illegal to deceive me thus
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Apr 30, 2024 22:20
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Real hurthling! posted:Yes. Its a shade garden at the bottom of an airshaft between buildings. When my bulbs' foliage starts to yellow, I cut it to the ground and let the buttercups and native geraniums take over yeeting everything else because gently caress clover and gently caress the bees. By the time those guys are done the melons and/or pumpkins I sowed are about to take over.
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Apr 30, 2024 23:41
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kid sinister posted:Anybody got any blue hostas? I know it's just a wax coating, but a goon can dream. I may take some of my parents Blue Mammoth this year, those things are freaking gorgeous
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May 1, 2024 00:02
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Mad Hamish posted:.... Silliness continues in Germany where a funkia is still called "Funkie" to this day.
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May 1, 2024 15:37
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Pretty bummed to find one of the stems on my five-year-old yucca cane snapped today. Then I took a closer look and I was like... oh yeah, this thing is enormous and weighs more than two pounds. Was probably inevitable.  I've already got two rooted cuttings I care for as well. Now thinking I'll try and root this guy (it's bigger than one of its potted brothers already) and then plant one of the others outside. Anyone have experience with yucca in the ground in 7b or colder? I see them around sometimes but wasn't sure if there was a genus that was more outdoor friendly than others.
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May 1, 2024 20:59
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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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May 1, 2024 21:03
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Is that a dracaena behind it in the first photo? Does it flower ever?
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May 2, 2024 10:11
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huh posted:Is that a dracaena behind it in the first photo? Does it flower ever? Yeah fragrans. No flowers in three years I've had it. Could be that it's in a dark dining room though.
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May 2, 2024 11:12
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 got the hosta party started today after my dentist appt!!!! Look at this thing!!!!!!!!
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May 2, 2024 20:59
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It looks so unhealthy even though I know it's not.
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May 3, 2024 00:16
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Does it look malnourished so the deer will overlook it as a source of nutrients?
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May 3, 2024 00:39
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Mad Hamish posted:It looks so unhealthy even though I know it's not. What he said. Where's the chlorophyll?
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May 3, 2024 03:17
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All of the ones they had looked only alright, luckily the greenhouse I bought it from is VERY good about their perennial warranty. I think it wasn't getting enough light at the nursery, everything I'm seeing says it's a more sun friendly hosta due to the white leaves needing more sunlight to get its energy. Apparently as the season goes on, the chlorophyll comes in and the leaves turn green, but from the pictures I've seen every plant seems to do it different. Some I saw fill in starting with the tip, others with the petioles. Here's a seasons pic I found:
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May 3, 2024 14:04
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I will say, the reviews of the hosta are hilarious because A LOT of people were expecting them to stay white as gently caress for the entire summer. Like one picture looked REALLY healthy, looked so cool! One star, "IT STOPPED BEING WHITE! WTF"
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May 3, 2024 14:05
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gently caress me, that's at Telly's?? Well, you just convinced me to buy my first hosta.
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May 3, 2024 14:16
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Hirayuki posted:gently caress me, that's at Telly's?? Well, you just convinced me to buy my first hosta. yup! I'll warn you, it's $20 because it's pretty hard to find, but also it's so loving cool! For those who aren't cool enough to live near Telly's, I'm sorry. Here's their hosta selection, goes all the way down to the end, both sides. there's 2 more sections with hostas too! 
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May 3, 2024 14:30
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 I so rarely venture into their perennials, but their annuals are so good it stands to reason the rest of their selection would be, too. Now to find the right place for this beauty. Unfortunately, we have plenty of shade for more traditional varieties and not a lot of sunnier spots for this one. I want to do right by it.
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May 3, 2024 14:40
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Hirayuki posted:
My guess is a true partial sun spot should do well by it, as long as it gets some solid direct light. The instructions said it won't do good in a deep shade spot and that it likes light more, but didn't say full sun, which is usually noted if a hosta like or tolerates it
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May 3, 2024 15:02
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the new job comes with an unexpected perk— there's big beautiful english-style gardens in the back of the historic house, and after I expressed interest in landscaping our new house all of a mile and a half away, the groundskeeper lit up like "well if you want hostas, I got some growing in the wrong place..." so now we have hostas. My beloved will, at some point in the next week, call for a cessation of hostatilities as we run out of bed to cover, but then I get to do more weeding, and, and...
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May 3, 2024 15:53
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 We got there finally
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May 3, 2024 21:55
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woah looks great 👍
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May 4, 2024 04:28
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 What the h*ck is growing from my snake plant? Also why do some of my snake pant leaves have wrinkles?
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May 5, 2024 19:54
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buglord posted:
That's a flower stalk. Snake plant flowers are nothing to write home about. Wrinkles are normal on snake plants. There's a reason an alternate name for them is "mother in law's tongue".
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May 5, 2024 20:32
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Been lurking this thread for a couple weeks since I've gotten into having non-artificial plants in my apartment lately. My husband has a lily that his mother gave him as a housewarming gift nearly a decade ago and an ivy that was growing wild on his old balcony, which we rescued then took with us when we moved to our own apartment 2 years ago. I've recently bought 3 succulents form the local supermarket's plants section and have been doing a somewhat competent job keeping them from dying. A couple months ago I started adding one or two drops per week of Botanopia Plant Food into their soil as well as repotting them and filling out the empty pot space with Soil Ninja Cacti & Succulents Mix. Just before I started adding Botanopia and changing the soil, one of the aloe vera plants showed some worrying yellowing of the bottom leaves so I've been keeping an eye out for further occurrences of it. I'd like to see the plants grow to their full potential though so I decided to try the Plant Parent app to see if it'd give me advice on what to do, but I'm wary of getting the premium membership in case the app's garbage. What's the thread's take on the Plant Parent app?
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May 5, 2024 20:34
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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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