Gardening, anyone?
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very pretty
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Just got an African Violet!
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Teka - That flower is so gorgeous. WOW!!! And being able to see it open up over time is really great. Thank you for sharing this beauty with us.
Gumdoctor
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Teka- beautiful!
Mommy- congrats on new flowers!
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That is gorgeous, Teka. Mommy I used to love african violets. They are great to have for some winter blooms.
Cherries are getting red.
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Just praying it doesn't die like my spider plants did!
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teka- what incredible photographs. Absolutely gorgeous. I have never heard of an orchid cactus
Mommyof2- I love African Violets. Many years ago I atempted to grow them without any success. They were far too temperamental or I lacked the patience in dealing with African violets. Now I admire them when I go to gardening shops
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Teka, beautiful photos. What a lovely flower.
Gumdoctor, I will have to look into netting for the blueberries at least. The fig trees are probably too big. I never thought of that.
As for roses in the south, almost all of mine are knockouts. They are practically work free (except when the beavers go after them). I have a few hybrid tea roses and they require constant trimming and spraying dor bugs.
Scottie
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Just worked over my rose bushes in the front yard. Cleaned up a bunch of leaves, moss and weeds put down systemic and fertilizer. Backyard maybe tomorrow.
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Now I have to get plant food for the African violet.
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https://www.hotbeautyhealth.com/lifestyle/air-purifying-plants/
I need that, too. My apartment is awfully dark, Winters can be especially dreary, with the short days. Yesterday, I made six quarts of mint tea concentrate, mostly chocolate mint, so it is a reddish color.
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I have regular plant food spikes but I'm not sure it would be good to use with my African Violet. Named my African Violet (Shirl)after my cousin Shirleywho had passed away this Spring. I also have a Snake Plant (Mother-In-Law's Tongue) nicknamed Spike and a Pothos plant who I call Maneater.
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African violets I use an oxygen plus food I think it also comes in a spike.
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Here is something new for me this year...pink oleander. It is a standard in a container between 2 garage doors. It dropped alot of leaves after I planted it and I was concerned it wouldn't make it. Happily I was wrong. It has a very beautiful light scent.
Gumdoctor
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I have African Violet food that's liquid and you use drops put in the water. I found a planter at Leow's that has a pot with only the rim glazed and fits into a glazed pot that holds water. It's gradually absorbed through the unglazed pot. Good for forgetful me who doesn't remember to water.
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I love oleander. That's a beautiful pink. Mine is blooming too
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very nice.
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Jazzygirl - I love that pink in your oleander as well. SO BEAUTIFUL!!!
Wren - I had one indoor African violet once as a gift. It did not last very long. I might try again some day. I was not in the right mindset to care for it at the time...too soon after MBC diagnosis...
Gumdoctor
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Bloom du jour, the last of the elephant ear cactus flowers.
Do you see the bee staring out at me? Letting me know that is his/her flower, move along please
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Yes, we don't have flowers like that in the Northwest. I love spring and early summer the lilacs, fox glove, columbine, bleeding hearts and roses, roses, roses.
It is cool and overcast still looking at the backyard I must get back to fertilizing, weeding and clipping back.
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gumdoctor- Oleanders grow easily in South Florida. When I bought my house there were three beautiful Oleanders in my backyard 2 deep pink and one light pink. My dogs chewed the leaves and spent the next three days in the emergency animal hospital. I had to remove the Oleander bushes but I still miss them. They are so beautiful.
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They are beautiful, but poisonous to everyone. In TX there were people made ill when they used an oleander stem to cook a hot dog. Between Houston and Galveston they were planted in the freeway median. Tough little shrubs.
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I moved from Florida to southern Indiana and all I can say is "Daylilies!!!" In Florida my yard was beach-like sand. I could amend all I wanted but the surrounding sand just sucked the moisture out away from the plants. Now I live where the green grass is everywhere and won't stop growing! Great farmland!
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princess fluffy britches- I am not on the water. I have flowers which Bloom throughout the year. My biggest problem is Limestone. I have to constantly enrich the soil. bougainvilleas, hibiscus, crocus, philodendron, seem to thrive on horrible soil and neglect. LOL I've never had any luck with gardenias or rose bushes.
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Trying to start a succulent garden. When I visited my sister she gave me loads of cuttings that are now rooting.
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On my walk this morning
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This was taken on my granddaughter's and my rock hunting trip last week.
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gmafoley and jazzygirl- beautiful flowers.
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A rabbit ate my okra plants. I asked DH to pick up 4 new ones. He brought home four CONTAINERS of okra.
Coach Vicky
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Have you ever seen these? Dish plate dahlias
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