This succy boi is way too big for his pot, and so top heavy bc of a winter-summer cycle of etiolation-compact growth, so he decided to bloom, and become even MORE top heavy. ~help~
(For real tho, does anyone have an id? I’ve struggled to id this succ for so long and i thought flowers might help but now i’m just even more confused ¯_(ツ)_/¯)
I grew some beautiful asiatic lilies this past season. Varieties are Josephine (left) and Salmon Party (right).
Those are gorgeous cultivars! Though I’d hate to interject but I have to say they’re Oriental hybrids not Asiatic; Asiatic hybrids are not capable of the charismatic petal stripes and unique freckling which the Oriental hybrids are most cherished for.
I’m curious though; do these cultivars have a spicy fragrance at all or are they scentless?
@kihaku-gato You’re absolutely right! It seems I’ve already forgotten everything I learned about lilies when I bought them earlier this year 😅
Both had a medium to strong scent that I would characterize as mainly sweet. You could pick it up a few feet away if the wind was blowing.
Those ID slip ups happen to the best of us lol, it’ll stick eventually. At the very least you kept memory of the cultivar names which is 100% better than me who always forgets what cultivars I own oftentimes lol.
And ooo I didn’t know there were some oriental lilies that have more of a sweet scent. The strength doesn’t surprise me but the sweetness does.
I grew some beautiful asiatic lilies this past season. Varieties are Josephine (left) and Salmon Party (right).
Those are gorgeous cultivars! Though I’d hate to interject but I have to say they’re Oriental hybrids not Asiatic; Asiatic hybrids are not capable of the charismatic petal stripes and unique freckling which the Oriental hybrids are most cherished for.
I’m curious though; do these cultivars have a spicy fragrance at all or are they scentless?
Deep freeze came last night. We’ve been on a work sprint in the garden and I’m still exhausted from it. Now though, it’s time to process all the things that were harvested.
I find this sort of work incredibly boring, which is oddly something I never see anyone talk about, even in the homesteading forums. Sometimes it is satisfying, usually when it’s time to actually eat or drink things. But in the meantime, I’m thankful for podcasts to keep my mind company while doing absolutely mindless labor – labor like removing the husks from these tomatillos. They will be washed and then weighed so I can calculate the other ingredients to add in.
The plan is to use them in salsa verde. Some to be eaten fresh, and the rest will be fermented, which is pretty tasty and a nice treat in winter.
BTW these are probably the #1 easiest thing to grow in a garden. Just let ‘em grow wild everywhere. At this point we just have volunteers that show up and it’s great.
I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY TO BE WRONG IN ALL MY LIFE
I WOULD repot the pothos vines too like I am doing with almost everything else…….. buuuuuuut I think it might be better to cut all these leafless messes to try to root them in water, and repot the parent plants once they’ve refilled what’s left with leaves.
I can get away with shocking many plants with rough repottings and soil renovations today, but I don’t think the pothos could handle that as they are today, they’ll have to be another day for repot day. Perhaps in spring when its the ZZ plant and Hoyas’ turns, it depends on how fast the leaves come back.
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