Does anyone else stake their spider plant?
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Comments (3)I know that Saxifraga sarmentosa (Strawberry Begonia - it's not a Begonia despite the common name) grows plantlets on runners. It also (as far as I've noticed) does well on benign neglect however to a very slightly lesser degree. This is my Spider Plant. It's in a 10in plastic pot with like, a million babies. I grew it from just a little tiny plantlet started 3 years ago off of my mother's plant, which she's since killed. Yours looks so happy! It looks a little deflated in this pic 'cause it was thirsty when it was taken. It puffs up substantially when not thirsty....See MoreDoes anyone else plant in mirror reverse?
Comments (5)How I order the chaos is with rather formal, geometric beds. They are symmetrical, more or less, though the axis of symmetry is parallel to the house, not perpendicular. Then the beds are planted in fairly normal, taller towards the back, fashion. Originally, the roses were arranged in the beds somewhat symmetrically, but over time some got larger than expected, others smaller, and more than one was asked to leave. Currently, about the only plants used that way are large ornamental grasses. What I find most interesting about the layout is that visitors immediately recognize it as a garden, even if the beds are full of weeds, or almost totally cut down....See MoreDoes anyone else's blue mist plant look like this?
Comments (3)Thanks Kathy. Yes, it does look like herbicide damage, but I haven't used herbicides. By the tiny litle bugs aren't leaving visible webs so I guess they aren't spider mites. Maybe they are something that's present anyway and not causing the damage. Or maybe they are there to eat what is causing it. For now I'll just watch them and see if the plants outgrow it with the help of possible beneficial insects that might show up if they haven't already....See MoreDoes anyone else rearrange their gardens like they do the inside?
Comments (14)OK, I'm feeling better now. And wondering it I should move the three digitalis that I planted yesterday up to the raised bed. But then that would through off the arrangement of the azelias that I moved to offset the digitalis..... Amy, I think you win, though, with moving plants from home to home, though I could see myself doing that as well... if I had a vacation home. I love gardening and it is fascinating to me how some of the same principles that we use with our decor regarding color, scale and proportion work for the garden as well. It's just that we need to wait for the plants to grown and prune to the best shape! I'm also realizing that those with beautiful gardens have evolved over time through years of attention and care. You cannot just relandscape and be done with it. A few houses in our neighborhood did just that and now they are looking a little ratty. Every beautiful garden that I see, I always see the homeowners working in it--and not the mow-and-blow gardeners. I am looking on this as a grand experiment. When we bought our house almost 20 years ago there were all these little "decorative" stones in the back and front, basically a low maintenance/water landscape. It just stiffled creativity as we could never plant anything. First we dug up the front and last year finally got rid of the rest of the rock in the back. Problem is, I found my landscapers had burried some on the rocks in one of my beds so everytime I transplant, I am digging out more of the little red rocks....See Moregetgoing100_7b_nj
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