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Comments (48)This actually happened to me. Lived with my girlfriend for two years. She started being shady just like you described, and was hanging out with her boss from her new job concerningly too much. Then one night she finally convinced me to let him meet us out in the city (Philly) where she proceeded to get blacked out hammered drunk (not surprisingly - bad drunk). Long story short, she left in a cab with him, along with my car keys and wallet in my jacket I had previously put on her because it was the coldest night of the year. With no ride, no money, and no jacket I had to walk 14 blocks to a friends house who was luckily home at 3 am. I kicked her out a couple days later. Everything is good though, thank God, my ficus is in the gritty and healthier than ever! I love you, Al...I'm so glad I found this post (5 years later). IAWT (In Al We Trust), Mikey G...See Moresurvey of sort-- :)
Comments (22)2015 strikes again. I like this post a lot! 1)what time of day do you water you plants? Why at this time? Usually the mornings. Before I do anything in the mornings I'll go outside and tend to everyone, little bit of pruning here and there, and watering if it's dry enough. It's a good way to start a day. 2)How often do you feed them? Some of them, like my flowering plants, every Thursday. My ferns, orchids, Sans, and succulents not as often. (Maybe a few times a month.) 3)How often do you re-soil/re-pot your plants? When I bring them home from the nursery, usually, then they're good for a while. My Hindu Rope Plant was the only one I didn't have to repot from the nursery since it was so itsy-bitsy. If I really have to repot them, it's when I bring them in for the winter. 4)Do you put plants outside during the day for a while then bring them in? If so, how long are they outside? All summer they're outside except a small batch. (Succulents = too rainy, Cyclamen = too warm, Maiden Hair Fern = Too windy, or anything because it's a MHF... etc etc) 5)What is, and how big is your biggest plant? Smallest plant? The biggest plant is my Majesty Palm, it's a good 6". Smallest has to be my cactus seedlings, or my Mimosa Pudica. 6)How old is your oldest plant? the youngest? My oldest is my Golden Pothos. Almost eight years? It's actually my mom's but it's definitely the old man of the plants. My youngest or newest are my (exaggeration alert) 18000 Spider Plant babies. Really, though. There's a TON OF THEM. 7)What is your favorite plant? or have you found it yet. I have a bunch really. I find the Staghorn fern super interesting (Along with all of the Fern species.) Carnivorous Plants are very fascinating too, and I've been searching for some for a while! My favorite that I own has to be my Heart-Leaf Philo and my Spider Plant....See MoreThree (or so) strikes and You are OUT
Comments (46)Rats, there goes the idea of the variegated KMOTGG as being Japanese beetle resistant. Direct sow larkspur in the fall where you want the flowers and they will come up with no problems. Always has worked for me. I generally don't cover seeds I am starting in pots. Just tamp them down firmly in moist potting mix and they will germinate. The only downside is that some plants need to be buried or they won't sprout but I think there are far fewer of those types than those that can germinate with light. Congrats on the germinations of the clematis seed I sent Linda. Hopefully the amount of GA and soak period won't affect them in the long run. I have heard stories of others using GA and everything came up well but then became distorted and they aborted themselves at some point in the growing process. The stans you sent me are up and growing well. Have a ton of integrifolia the species seedlings and other integrifolias up. I had quite a few germinations on addisonii and potted them up but with no top growth evident yet. I am experimenting and just leaving a few of the root germinated seeds in the baggies with vermiculite until they get top growth before planting into soil mix. Some of the glaucophylla have sprouted roots but only one has any top growth. All my seeds and plants are in the garage and with the colder weather we have had this year, they should be getting all the cold treatment they will ever need. I wintersowed the geranium seed you sent (at least I think it was you), as well as the campanula like seeds you sent....See Moreplant-experts-say-thousands-of-roses-will-die
Comments (22)Steve's comments about the threat to oak trees in CA and the attendant media hoopla reminds me of the untold millions of elm trees of fond, and fairly recent, memory. In the desert southwest those trees were planted by the tens of thousands during the 1940s. They thrived in a tough environment -- turning towns throughout the region into oases of spring and summer green surrounded by vast and inhospitable expanses of dry, scrubland shaded brown, tan, sandy red. When word of Dutch elm disease began to filter in from various parts of the country, we blithely assumed that our remoteness would insulate us and our trees from the scourge. Then in the 70s, those trees (elms, BTW, have a life expectancy 150-300 years) began to decline -- a few at first, then a lot more, finally ALL of them. Every single one of them. The decline was inexorable, and the trees' demise was fairly swift. I don't know where kids there go to play in the shade these days. Next to buildings, I guess. I'm fortunate that my elm-shaded childhood was lived before all the media hype about dutch elm disease became cruel reality. Its happened before. Living now the eastern U.S., I occasionally encounter people who still mourn the American chestnut tree. It once made up 25% of eastern forests. Now there are virtually none. Mature American chestnuts were truly majestic trees . . . or so I'm told....See Moreflowersaremusic z5 Eastern WA
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