Tag: reblog

Tales from the garden centre

regnum-plantae:

customer: About 2 months ago I bought a standard weeping juniper, it’s going all brown, what’s happening?

me: do you have a photo? no? ok *starts asking questions and listing all the reasons why a juniper could suddenly go brown*

customer: I don’t know, you should really come see it

me, half a step in their garden: that’s not a juniper, it’s a perfectly healthy larch…Larix decidua…it’s deciduous….and it’s autumn… 

customer, looking at the name tag still on the plant: oh

This is what a Larix decidua, Pinaceae looks like right now. Being a deciduous conifer, it first goes through some dramatic colour changes and then sheds its needles, which grow back a bright green the following spring.  

plantamania:

Progress of my Sedum cremnosedum ‘little gem’ that I inherited from my mother after I moved to a new state! I love him so much! I know he is pretty etiolated, but my apartment is west-facing and it sucks, but there isn’t much I can do about it. I can’t afford a grow light either because I can’t afford to constantly go over on my power bill in my apt (which I already do without the presence of a grow light) 😦

I just stuck this guy in the corner of my windowsill and just watered him weekly and let him do his thing and he exploded over 4 months! I’m so proud :’) 

doubleplusunlucky:

This little Turbinicarpus jauernigii hasn’t stopped blooming since late October, but this is the first time it’s produced two flowers at once. I’d like to think that it’s just responding really well to the inorganic soil mix I repotted it into last year, but this plant has always bloomed enthusiastically since it was a gumball-sized seedling so I don’t think I can take any of the credit.

This species is 80% taproot, so as soon as it’s done putting on as show and I reduce watering, it’ll withdraw down to the soil level and disguise itself as a particularly lumpy pebble until next year.

hottiehorti:

Look at you growing new pink spikes!!🌵🌵

I was gifted this Opuntia monacantha variegata by a very sweet Instagrammer who I was following, and was thus inspired to start a plant account on Instagram as well (HottieHorti). Will be duplicating all new posts on both accounts, so feel free to follow whichever is convenient ^^