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Look what they did!!! (Nestbox damage photos)
Comments (6)Bummer that you have to put the protectors on. My guess would be a Downy. They like to gain access. Since there's some straw in the bottom of the box, my feeling is that they are planning on using it to roost in for the winter. They've pecked at mine, but I have the wooden blocks attached to the front of the hole, so they haven't had much luck actually getting in, or destroying the original hole....See MoreWhat We Did With Our Damaged Hardwood Floors
Comments (5)Recipe for authentic antique look: Take one large dog with long toenails, and lock him in a house for ten years, and never let him out. Ever. I really felt sorry for this poor creature, in spite of the mess. *shudder*...See MoreDamage in slate tile
Comments (16)There is a very large variation in the slate tiles available. Not all are soft, not all flake, not all stain... THAT is not a fleabite. Slate doesn't get the same type of impact marks as marble. Someone probably dropped goop and wiped it up quickly without noticing some was left in pre-existing dips. Are you sure it isn't mortar (or whatever the white stuff they stuck it down with is)? You can try sanding it out with a tiny piece of very fine sandpaper, but I'd try tapping it with a finish nail and a hammer....See MoreDid I Damage My Peace Lily?
Comments (20)HU....85 plants? You sound like a person after my own heart! My problem is not that I only have large plants (the addition I put on the house really needed about a 15-ft. ceiling) but that there are too many big ones, which is why I got into the 'suck the overflow out of the saucer with a baster' method rather than lifting them up into the drip trays I use. I must confess to basically watering 'on a schedule' - once a week. If a plant truly seems like it doesn't need it, it'll have to wait till the following week, so perhaps one of the reasons my soil mix works for me is indeed that I've got extra water retention that suits this 'water now or next time' approach.. It also probably contributes to having plants not dry out and require additional water when they normally would with a less retentive mix while we travel for sometimes several weeks (gosh...will we ever do that again...in quite the same way? A hot topic for another forum...) I hate to ask other family members to spend more time here than truly necessary - so i plan for them to water every 9-10 days. Never had a problem with that either. I used to go bananas with all this stuff - fussing and fretting, keeping feeding charts on every plant (seriously), using those moisture readers that you stick in the pots and so would wind up watering plants randomly throughout the week. For me, that all started to take way too much time in the general scheme of things - so I figured that my collection would either 'make it or break it' based on a new and far simpler plan. If all this qualifies me as maybe being a neglectful and less than truly devoted plant hobbyist, I plead guilty! Nonetheless, most of the plants are still here. A bit of a Darwinistic approach I imagine. Sorry if I went way over the top in issuing advice to Emberly and not considering her level of experience. I thought that much of what I said was actually pretty basic and hopefully of some use. I'm quite used to bringing explanations down to a simplified level being that my entire career was spent teaching elementary instrumental music beginners - ages 10-12. I'm not new here - and go way back into when it was just the garden web. I was actually quite dismayed when the whole thing was usurped into "Houzz" and had a heck of time getting my username to log in - seem to recall going through several different names (was finally assigned one) before I was able to get back in, so, yeah, I probably go back 20+ years also here. Anyway, all that being said, a quick change of topic (I'll also post on the perennials forum for this) - anyone have trouble getting their irises to bloom? It's so frustrating - they come up, look great, but then....nothing. No blooms, except for some patches. It's not like some of the ones that aren't blooming have been where they are for decades either - since I know the need to occasionally divide and move things around, etc. I have some I just planted a few years ago in new locations, and they don't bloom either. Then again, I must be the only person in my county who has trouble getting forsythia to bloom - no matter when I cut it. Guess I better stick to peace lillies.... 😏 Getting back to vermiculite one final time - it works for me. I've never taken a plant out of pot (the needs repotting) and found the "soggy mess" referred to around the roots. Quite the opposite - often if the plant has not been newly watered before repotting (not a great idea anyway), the soil just falls away from the roots - too much actually. I go through this every year since I bring annuals in every fall, then put them out again in spring. Often, everything just breaks apart too easily. I wish it would clump together a bit more sometimes. Oh well, at least I have fewer years ahead of me than behind relative to working with all this. I'm trying to break out of the 'what we own starts to own us' mode - since it truly can happen however insidiously. The plants can be a contributing factor to this as well - since we are ultimately beholden to them for whatever care they require. I hate to lose any; however, In the eventual downsize and move at some point to a smaller property - it'll probably be a big yard sale and thus the inevitable parting from some longtime friends of the flora variety. Kind of tough to send a 12-ft. dracaena through eBay ☺️...See MoreSugi_C (Las Vegas, NV)
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