WOW. I did not expect this to work so quickly! I bought a gorgeous Coleus and didn’t notice it had mealybugs until I got it home.
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Sucs for You… and Begonias too? New plants acquired!
Have you ever had an irresistible urge to RUN to the nursery, like a plant was sending you a telepathic message that it was there, waiting for YOU to come take it home? So…
Continue… “Sucs for You… and Begonias too? New plants acquired!”My cutting caudexed! Potting up Senecio fulgens in a new pot
Here’s a cool story about a Senecio fulgens cutting that is forming a great caudex! I thought it would be a great fit for this sweet new pot. I’ll show you how to clean up the caudex and pot it so you can really see the swollen growth.
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We made it through the most recent freeze in Houston and it was nice having all of our plants inside! Here’s a quick tour of the scene before we move everything back outside.
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So here’s another fun problem to look out for, but only if you have a pecan tree nearby: Aphid Rain. (I think I made that term up, but maybe there’s something more scientificky.)
I first noticed my car literally covered with small sticky droplets and thought it might have been nectar from the Crepe Myrtle flowers overhead. Then I noticed similar droplets on my plants’ leaves, table, deck…pretty much everywhere in my backyard where there is no Crepe Myrtle in sight.
Lithops stuck in old leaves? Here’s a quick fix! (Satisfying watch!)
In this video, I show you a ‘hidden’ Lithops that was stuck, struggling to emerge from a thickened old leaf pair that didn’t dry out enough to split.
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Do you have a wonky trailing Echeveria (or other succulent) with a weak or dying stem? I did! Here’s how I fixed my Echeveria Monroe and repotted it.
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Happy Friday, or whatever day you’re watching this! We had another plant bench built for the porch and I had to put some of my favorite plants on it, of course. Oh and you get to meet my super silly dogs, Annie and Najis 😉
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I have been procrastinating about mounting this Staghorn Fern BUT we got it done! It’s really easy as long as you have the right supplies: A piece of wood, twine, nails, hammer, sphagnum moss, and a Staghorn Fern!
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Remember back in April 2020 when I made the video about propagating Begonia erythrophylla ‘Beefsteak’ by water rooting and leaf cuttings?
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