WrenP-Complete posted:

And a new surprise!


What plant is this? Peony? Peony hybrid?

Ashex posted:

Went off on holiday for a couple weeks and the neighbours watered the garden while I was away. Came back to the cherry plant looking half dead with almost all the leaves missing.

I've got a few pics here. Anyone have suggestions on how to nurse it back to health? It seems like it was hit with too much fertiliser :/

I. M. Gei posted:

I am seeing little tiny brown and black ants on my tree now that it has lots of big leaves and I don’t know whether or not I should be concerned about this.

FreelanceSocialist posted:

So zero of the loving peonies are flowering

there wolf posted:

Yeah, no trees at all. It's basically a dry creek bed that runs to the city storm drain, so anything with long roots is out. I want to plant something around the drain itself to prevent people from stepping through it. A little water will pool around the drain itself in really bad storms, but maybe for a few hours at most. I'm more worried about having something with shallow roots that can still hold up to the force of the water coming at it.

The red-twig dogwood seems good, but I'm in zone 8 which appears to be the limit of it's range and it has problems in hot, humid air.

twoday posted:

Two of them are trees, one is an Indonesian lime tree, and the other is Bodhi tree (ficus religiosa, native to India and Nepal). I would like to make bonsai out of one of them eventually, but this will obviously take years. For now I'm worried about the bodhi tree, it seems to have lost a leaf or two during shipping, and only has a few left.

My question is, where can I find some info about these plants and how to grow them? I want to give them the right type of soil, know how sunny they like it, etc. I checked Wikipedia and now I'm out of ideas. Any tips?

Organza Quiz posted:

I just bought a bunch of native plants at the local annual big native plant sale and planted them this evening! Please wish them luck! The volunteer I spoke to said they were good for my area and shade tolerant but I have never been good at keeping plants alive so they may need it.

ReapersTouch posted:

Wanting to plant a row of flowering bushes in my back yard for pollinators and my kids to play around. The yard will get full sun and we live in zone 7a, so I'm thinking of butterfly bushes, lilac, camellia, and spirea.

Anyone have any experience with them or any other suggestions?

sucka posted:

Hi

This plant is 2 plants woven together which I purchased from a local supermarket.

What is it, why are its leaves going black, how do I look after it properly?





Thank you for help

ReapersTouch posted:

I'm in central Oklahoma and I wouldn't mind perennials. We have one milkweed in our front yard that is doing great, so we plan on putting alot of them on the other side of the yard where the utilities are buried, where they would get alot of sun also.

It's a new neighborhood, so houses are the only thing that would block the sun.

Also, nothing with really toxic berries, I got 2 young children and a dog.

Guildenstern Mother posted:

So my basil won't stop trying to have sex with itself and its time for the final harvest. I have another plant that I'd like to put in the pot once this is done. Its not really big enough for the pot, but I believe in the little guy. It seems to be an Aglaonema Silver Bay, but I'm not sure. I think its supposed to get as big as it can based on pot size?

Any tips for harvesting the basil/what to do with it (there's not enough for pesto) and clearing out the pot for replanting? I'm a complete and total novice, I assume I need to get most of the old roots out, but should I put in all new potting soil?

Kaiser Schnitzel posted:

That’s exciting! I’ve never grown (or seen!) Franklinia, but some friends have a closely related Gordonia and it is finicky with reasonably demanding requirements as well. What’s your native soil like/what area are you in? I think the natural habitat of both Gordonia and Franklinia is on slight slopes just above the flood plain-plenty of water, but no standing water. They probably don’t like wet feet and need very well drained soil, but also aren’t very drought tolerant. I would think it would like fairly acidic, sandy soil like is common to river bottoms in the southeast. If you’re in the hot, Deep South, it would probably appreciate some high part/dappled shade especially while it’s getting established. Most of those small bottomland evergreeens are really understory trees and prefer some protection from the blazing sun.

And yeah, gently caress deer and beavers. Nothing like planting some nice cypresses along a pond and coming back the next morning to find a dozen perfectly clipped off trunks. Or trying to plant mast trees for the deer to eat the acorns from in 20 years and having the deer just eat every leaf off of them. I AM TRYING TO HELP YOU!

Hipster_Doofus posted:

Have any efforts been made to repopulate it in the wild again? The article didn't say anything about that, just that the cause(s) of its extinction is/are uncertain. I'm guessing no one has tried because it's already hard enough to care for them in "captivity," but you'd think there's gotta be a way. Careful study of all the conditions where they were known to grow, for starters? It just seems like something that would be someone's passion project.

bird with big dick posted:

Any treeborists able to identify this tree? I'm guessing Austrian Pine based on it being one of the recommended types of trees to be planted in this area based on soil and climate (northern nevada, full sun, clayey soil) and whatnot but it's mostly just a guess. I think the needles are in clumps of 2 but that's based off the photos, not an in person examination.

I really only need to know the approximate mature height of it, for a project I'm working on.

Qubee posted:

Any plants you would all recommend that I can start growing during the Winter months in the UK? And is there a gardening thread for general questions related to gardening?

Safari Disco Lion posted:

Snake plants are supposed to be easy and I'm panicking, I don't want them to die.

Senor Tron posted:

Having a look at that it seems like it may get a bit wide for hedging at the edge of the bed, but there's a spot near the back closer to the fence it would be perfect for! Thanks.

For reference this is the kinda idea I have in my head of what this space might look like in a few years. Planning on growing a bougainvillea on the garage type room on the left.



Forgive the quick lunchtime paint job.

Crimpanzee posted:

My wife got me a pitcher plant and venus fly trap after I mentioned I thought they were interesting but I realized I have no idea how to care for them. We have a south facing full sun window in our kitchen so I think we have a good spot I'm just curious if how she planted them is a good long term setup. We don't have any fruit flies to feed them, is there an alternate and more reliable food source like a liquid fertilizer or something? What's the life cycle of the pitchers? The photos are of the terrarium after about 3 weeks, not sure how long she had them planted in there and hidden as they were a Christmas gift. When I got them a pitcher looked kind of sickly and as of today has turned black, I assume I should cut it off, but is it indicative of an unhealthy plant in general or just a normal thing like a flower blooming and wilting?

https://imgur.com/a/RA7AbdR

enraged_camel posted:

I live in Central Texas, and this year I would like to plant an almond tree in my front yard.

Knowing absolutely nothing about any of this stuff, where can I start?

I. M. Gei posted:

Harden it off.

You do that by putting it in a protected area where it’ll get lots of direct sunlight for like 3 to 4 hours a day for one or two days, then gradually increase the amount of time by like an hour a day for several days until it gets acclimated to its new environment. Ideally you’d start out doing this indoors, then start over outdoors when you’re up to like 6 to 8 hours, but if you don’t have a spot indoors that gets direct sunlight you can probably go straight to outdoors as long as you’re careful (probably up the exposure by 30 minutes a day instead of one hour if you start outdoors).

A grow lamp probably isn’t going to cut it. You want it to get used to its ACTUAL new environment, not an indoor safe space (unless the indoor safe space IS its new environment, of course ).

Lead out in cuffs posted:

Oooh. I saw someone did this up the road with their banana palm, and wondered about the purpose. They got it in just in time for a gigantic dump of snow. I suspect the tree may be dead already, though, since there was a cold snap of -10 (Celsius) before they did.

Malcolm Turnbeug posted:

I have confirmed the lantana is toxic to my friends and future allies in the tank girl water wars; the Roos and wallabys. No quarter will be shown. I will make this beauty wish for the quick death by fire it cannot have as I uplodge it and replace it with the glorious and hardy, fire proof native Australian ground cover plant *THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK*

(I’m in south east Queensland if anyone has any recs, but I’m sure the dude at my nursery will have some suggestion, he is crazy good at selling me lots of stuff)

Jestery posted: