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The ZZ plant was well overdue for a repot so decided I'd do it before tree pruning today. Shouldn't take that long right?
Oh darling
How greatly I underestimated what I was getting myself into. It took me several hours to untangle and tickle apart the roots from themselves before I could even think of repotting. I wish I took a photo after I got the roots free but I got interrupted during the repotting process due to having to help with a lamb and ended up forgetting.
The rootballs were so huge that I decided to instead divide apart some of the tubers where I could and repot them into several pots instead of a single giant pot.
one chunk of tuber got separated from the greenery but still had an eye so I threw it into a tiny pot to see what happens as well.
Two okay-ish stems got broken off accidentally so I decided to throw them in water to try rooting more up- not that I need more ZZ plants when one specimen has already become 3
While tree pruning outside is taking main priority I've been wanting to work on cleaning repotting up more of the houseplants so may try to juggle a little of each done each day. Will try to report for whichever houseplants get done next.
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••• March 2nd, 2024 •••
My big baby tre outgrew the moss pole it was climbing on so i bought a trellis for it!
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Plant of the Day
Friday 1 March 2024
It was only a few days ago I wrote about Iris 'Blue Note' (Reticulata) but my friend had such a lovely display of this small, early bulb, protected by a frame of Cornus alba (dogwood) stems, that here it is again!
Jill Raggett
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Sticky
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Alocasia baginda ‘Dragon scale’
via James Wong, Botanygeek
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Conophytum Wittebergense is an uncommon succulent belonging to South Africa. It belongs to the Mesembryanthemum family and is known for its small, globular shape and unique, pebble-like look. The plant has little white or pink flowers that flower in the summer.
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If people make cutesy posts about growing food and herb spirals and composting but never talk about stuff like preventing and getting rid of rats in a garden, I get this suspision that they either haven't actually gardened much or they're more interested in presenting an aesthetically pleasing image than in actually preparing people to deal with a garden.
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Hoya carnosa.
July 2022.
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Proof that some plants just want to be left alone:
This is Mina. Mina is a Pilea peperomioides. Last spring I chucked her, a stump with half a leaf barely hanging on, out into the garden and did not touch her all summer. This is how she looks like now.
(She's currently getting a bath and a pesticide spray as the spider plant next to her got scale. Thankfully no sign of them on her, but better safe than sorry.)
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I've been transplanting for 8 hours. But I got it done. Leaf in unlovable hand.
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