Outside...

Inside...

Up close...

With my begonia...

I hope it will be fertile bothways. Darling Cindeea sent me some of her Lemon Lime pollens a few months ago and it has proved to be a very good pollen donor.

the scent from the stephnotis is not as strong as that from the gardenia.

sue

This started on the Photo Hosting thread within the last few days when we started talking about keypunch cards, and when Highalt mentioned slide rules, Emagin piped up with: "Slide rules? We need a separate post on these memories. Bet there are plenty of topics of yore."

Well here it is!

So, all you Olde Folks, here’s what I remember!

>> Listening to The Lone Ranger and Fibber McGee and Molly on the radio before television
>> Getting our first television
>> We had a hand dug well and no hot running water
>> The washing machine had a wringer, and a dryer was a clothesline
>> There was a coal room in the basement with a tiny window that the dump truck put the chute into to deliver the coal
>> My father had to go down every now and then to shovel more coal into the furnace, but then we got an automatic hopper that fed the coal into the furnace and it only had to be filled up a couple times a day
>> We had a root cellar in the basement with a dirt floor and dirt ledges that were full of holes my 2 older brothers said were rat holes, and they'd lock me in there with the "rats"
>> Studebakers
>> Edsels
>> Phone numbers had a word for a prefix
>> Candy cigarettes
>> Polio and iron lungs (I was old enough to be scared!) And I remember when we got our first series of 3 Salk vaccine shots
>> Shmoos

What do YOU remember?

:-) Skybird

Jérôme

I find it rather interesting.
ARIF

Giraffe flowered as well

What do you think ?

Amorphophallus konjac

I finally bloomed this beast after 3 years! Right now it tops out at slightly over 4 feet and is actually blooming inside. I just brought it outside for the pics.

The fragrance of this flower can only be described as eye watering – very much like a few, very dead, very ripe squirrels locked in your garage on a hot summer day. Why do I grow these things??

It blooms without soil. The tuber started out 3 years ago about the size of a quarter and now weighs around 3 lbs. It’s my understanding it will only continue to increase in size over the years and can reach over 10 lbs. Once the flower fade, I’ll plant it in my garden for the summer. The foliage is very cool – almost like some ancient palm tree.

Kevin

to start tuberous begonias in very small pots or all on small flat bed of soil, and then transplant them later at planting time (mid-May) into their final pots?

Or to start them in the pot they are destined for? These are all to be in pots, not in the ground.

About half already have very short sprouts (I picked through lots of bags to find ones that did!) Should I handle planting differently for the ones that do vs. the ones that don't?

And: my house tends to be cool, only about 65 degrees F. Do they need heat to sprout? And how do you provide it? I have no grow light but could maybe use an incandescent clip light or two and a timer: but that would mean starting them in the basement, where there is little natural light.

I have 12, mixed colors. Once I know what color each one will be I plan to add very small accent annuals to the pot, like lobelia.

Here are a few of my Clivias...more to follow

Against my better judgment, I bought a Gardenia. It was small, in bud & a very good buy. So I've have it all of 6 days & am trying to learn its watering needs.

I just did a Google search to read on various comments on Gardenia care. Have already seen conflicting info, on misting the leaves (which I did as it was drying out a bit & I was afraid of bud drop) only to see a site (aftr the fact) which counsels against misting the leaves.

So now I have yellowing leaves & it's not looking good at all. Can anyone tell me pls. are the yellowing leaves a sign of overwatering?

Toni (in particular), is it a goner already????

I know abt the famous Suicidal Gardenia thread, I know they're temperamental & can be difficult. I'm also realizing I think my apmt is just gonna be too darn warm for it. I feel like a MAJOR idiot!!!

Help pls. -- all advice is welcome. TIA

(PG) Karen

Well done Dan..Thumbs Up.!!!

later

Congrats Dan.

Arthur.

I germinated the seeds using the wet paper towel in a baggie technique then planted them in Scott's Potting Soil for Seed Starting which has no nutrients. I'm assuming that peppers, like other plants I've grown, don't need additional nutrients for the first 2 weeks or so of life.

Pics:
1:Healthy 1, its not as yellow as it looks in this pic http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=4031424
2: Retard http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=4031422
3: Another view of the healthy one. Dunno where that sprout came from, must have been buried in the soil really deep lol, cause the other ones have been above ground for like 2 weeks. http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=4031421
4: Healthy one again http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=4031420
5: The purple one
http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=4031651

See how the leaves are un-curling from the center stem out? They started off rolled up and are in the process of slowly un-rolling themselves. Still looks messed up to me though.

As you can, see, this hibiscus is huge! and really leggy. One of them he has in a south facing window but this one was in a west facing one. I don't think it has ever been pruned. I'm not going to prune it (well, maybe just a little) before he gets back, but I'd love to hear some strategies for getting it in to shape from this state. The whole thing is about 6' feet tall, the individual branches are about 4' long. I don't grow hibiscus myself so I have no idea how to go about cutting them back, especially ones which are so big. I am not sure what kind they are; but they have a pretty red flower. I Imagine they might benefit from spending the summer outside?

I'd like to give him a strategy for taking care of them when he comes back.