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If I were to make a plantblr discord server would anyone be honestly interested? or has someone beat me to it?

Was a crummy/busy day yesterday but at least the yellow flowered Schlumergera has joined the S. truncata hybrid floral display!

All the different colours in one window definitely brings in the feeling of a warm tropical jungle into a day surrounded by a cold and abnormally mucky un-canadian winter day ❄🌺

Well, well, well, looks like I won’t have to buy a new red flowered Schlumbergera truncata hybrid after all; two of my seedlings from several years ago (conceived in a schlumbergera pollination tutorial) inherited their dead parent’s red colouration. When I saw the initial bud colour development I honestly thought they’d be pink flowered, what a pleasant surprise to be proven wrong.

Second specimen to start flowering; the pink Schlumbergera truncata hybrid. (Wish the photo quality was better on the first photo).

Smaller flowers than the other cultivars I own, it is nonetheless a charmer.

First of the Schlumbergeras to open up a flower! A nice white truncata hybrid, the cold in the farmhouse is causing its petals to develop a light pink blush 💕

These flowers were enduring well into the early November snow and cold. I have a feeling they are now asleep in the ground with the other perennials.

Well at least I found out why something felt different with the Pro-mix potting soil I’ve been using; The soil bales I had been originally using in the greenhouse + house were General Purpose BX mix, but the last bales I’ve been using are High Porosity

HP mix

(as in, extra moisture holding). Um… woops?

We’ll see how that changes things for the majority of this years’ repotted nursery plants when it comes to winter survival (they definitely did well in regards to summer care at least… explains why I didn’t have to water them all every day)…. as for the houseplants (as in- the majority of the cacti/succulent collection that got repotted this autumn) I’ll need to hope that they continue to thrive as they have been despite the bad choice of soil mix. I am very lucky most of those are now in clay pots rather than plastic or there’d be far more panic about the damages from the mess up of soil mix choices; thank the lord for the moisture/air breathability of clay. If they had been kept in plastic I could’ve kissed those healthy roots goodbye.

Me: I don’t really get the appeal of the daylily cultivar Stella De Oro; its flowers are so plain and generic of a yellow flower, and its so overrused among daylily cultivars in cityscapes. I really don’t see the appeal when there are more exotic/colourful cultivars.

Stella De Oro: *stays smol and diminutive making it less aggressive than the Fulva hybrids in a mixed perennial flowerbed, and while spotty in predictability it continues to try to rebloom with flowerbud development even in frosty/snowy November*

Me:

Photos of the first & last of the spring bulb plantings;

A troweled trench of Quail Daffodils and a shoveled trench of Tulipa tarda and Dorothy Crocuses (second pic somewhat showing the different planting depths in the same trench- 3" for the crocuses & 6" for the tulips).

This spring’ll be a show I know it will! Might be my first impactful spring bulb planting I hope as well.

Trowel about broke but I got more progress; I got more bulbs planted (even planted the Prairie Smoke & White Great Blue Lobelia during the work) but I still have one final bulb zone/strip to plant. Tomorrow that’s gonna have to happen whether rain or shine; snowshowers are on the forecast for this Wednesday so the clock’s scarily a’ticking.

Hope you other Northeasterners are more ahead of the autumn season close-out than I am, cause man it feels like it’s gonna be a close one like it is for me every year.