Please help make sure these 3 plants/trees won't hurt my dog
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Moved into a new home and I am wondering what these things are. The green bushy thing is attracting A TON of bees....not looking forward to trimming all that! The reddish tree (?) seems to grow berries or something. I mainly want to make sure that if my dog happens to munch on a leaf of one of these that it won't hurt him. Thanks for your help!
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Comments (12)totally - 'd like to see pics of your curtains when you can post them. Becky - I've got some invisible thread, forget what I used it on but it is hard to work with. BTW, I just created new email account for GW members to contact me, I've given so many details of my life and builder that I really don't want to give my name, but you can call me Shelly ;-) my3dogs - thanks, DH is looking in another JL today (took DD to swim lessons) for more fabric, and I did email my dad's cousin in RI to see if she'd look for me. I may see if my aunt is up to making panels for me - she gave me a bunch of dress patterns for DD last year so I think she's given up on sewing, but panels should be easier than the dresses she was always making for her granddaughter. If not, as you said, $2/yd instead of $18/yd goes a long way in hiring someone. linnea - I know where the blind stitch setting is, there is no special foot on my $100 machine. It was the folding that I didn't understand when I was trying to blindstitch DH's dark brown cords, so I just used matching thread. The fabric in the link you showed was a little dark so I'm not sure I saw clearly how to do it, but I'll try on some scrap fabric. Or maybe just finish the hem so it doesn't fray, then try blind-stitching by hand? If I can't find enough for panels for the whole LR I think I'll either do inside-mount roman blinds with this material and my current blind HW, and maybe add a valance for the height though I don't think it gives the nice long line of floor-length panels, or maybe I'll go with my original curtains in the LR and use the striped fabric for the DR. The DR wall color is just 1 lighter on the BM strip than the LR. I'm also trying to make that a more "formal" room than the LR, though I don't know how formal I can get with oak furniture and open to the stairs/foyer. (That's the green panel that is same pattern as the beige panels I was going to use in LR hung over the chair) Yes, the back wall is draker (same color as LR) than the rest of the DR. I was thinking it would make the room look bigger by making that wall recede. This is the valance I'm thinking about making - more formal for DR, I may just go with panels in LR if I find enough fabric....See MoreMy dog attacked my other dog. HELP!
Comments (18)'Why on earth would you allow a breed like that in your home is beyond me. Keep the pit mix and expect more of the same incidents in the future.' Why would you question what type dog a person has if they are a responsible owner, as sarah appears to be. She has realized that there is a problem and working to resolve it. This dominance/jealousy problem could have risen with any breed dog, not only a Pitt. I have been around/worked with dogs all my life; the three times I was bitten was by a Cocker, a Jack Russell and a Sheltie. Pitts are not the top bitters, but as larger dogs they do more damage when they bite. A lot of smaller dog bites are also not reported making their bite statistics lower on the list. I've seen Pitts who were wonderful "people/kid dogs", who were wonderful pets and great with other pets and I've seen Pitts who were wonderful pets but couldn't be trusted around other pets, same as can be found in any breed. I can't say I would never have a Pit because I've had too many rescues to say never but I probably wouldn't go out and intentionally get a Pit due to not knowing bloodlines or how the animal had been raised. At one time there was a guy here in Florida who bred Pitts just for fighting. He took the worst of the worst and bred them over and over. If you got a dog from his bloodlines in error, you could very well have a problem because this IDIOT had bred them to be vicious. I've seen people who want their Pitts to be bad and train/abuse them to be so. Sadly, in cases like these the dogs are the ones who suffer. Personally I think that people of this ilk, people who fight dogs and people such as this breeder need to be put into a cage and forced to fight in the same manner which the dogs are forced to do. Animal abuse laws aren't strict enough in my opinion. People who abuse animals have no respect for any kind of life as far as I am concerned. Bless you sarah for fostering....See Moremy goldfish plant won't bloom
Comments (13)I can't tell if it is a Columnea or a Nematanthus from the picture. Both are sometimes called Goldfish plants. Nematanthus are also called Flying Dolphin Plants. Puglvr1's plant above is a Nematanthus. The plant in my profile pic is a Columnea (a NOID that I think is a C. gloriosa). It's really easy to tell them apart by the flowers, but you can usually tell by leaves too. I haven't grown Nematanthus if that's what it is, but I do have two Columneas. First, your plant looks very leggy to me. A lack of light would keep it from flowering. I grow mine in a northish corner window (a French door and a floor-to ceiling picture window) that gets a ton of indirect light all year long. I take them outside and hang them on my southeast-facing covered porch when temps are above 50F at night. I also think you're watering too much. In the summer, I keep them damp, but not wet. When they were in a 50/50 Pro-Mix/perlite media, I watered them about once a week or so in the summer. In the winter, I let it dry out completely before watering (about every other week or so), but you have to be careful about that because not all of them like to get that dry. I killed a C. "Aladdin's Lamp" by letting it get too dry. Keep in mind that these are epiphytes in the wild, so they grow on the side of trees. Lots of air around the roots. I use Better-Gro Orchid Plus Fertilizer on mine. I use a TINY bit with each watering (a little less than 1/4 tsp to a gallon) year round. If your gallon of water is blue, it's too much. Can you post a close-up of the leaves?...See MoreMy Meyer lemon tree won't produce fruit
Comments (11)this my plant. Sorry for the bad pic. Lol thanks John. It's in a South facing window which gets at least 6 hrs direct light. The fertilizer is one my we got that was made for citrus trees. It gets fed monthly. Thanks for the help and let me know if I need to do anything different....See MoreUser
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