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 Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:27 pm
I though it might be nice to share pictures of some of the plants we are growing ourselves. I would love to see what everyone else is growing. I have a beautiful Croton and a baby Rubber Tree at my work. 
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:32 pm
This is the perfect thread for me since I love to use my digital camera to excess, and my plants are my favorite subject matter. To avoid stretching the page, I'll link to the pictures. I love this picture, simply because I find it so fascinating. I took it a while back, before planting a cutting I had been rooting for a while (too long, in fact... I kind of forgot I had it sitting in a bucket of water... sweatdrop ). The roots measure about 18 inches: {x}I try to capture my plants in interesting angles, to give them that "alive" feel, and these are some of my favorites: Spider plant {x} {x}Fuschia {x}Mini rose bush {x} {x}These others are just some general pics of stuff I grow. Try cramming all of these into one tiny room to over-winter them. Definitely not easy. From the summer of '06 {x}From the summer of '07 {x}Vincas are one of my favorite flowers to grow. I try to get them every summer. {x}
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:41 pm
I love your pics Killer_Cactus23!! I tend to overtake pictures too, though I take mostly mushrooms and natural plants. But I do have some of my own to share. I should let you know that I don't (at all) claim to take good pictures. So don't ask me how these turned out at all! blaugh This is my Hoya plant that bloomed last summer. A rose bush in front of the house developed some two tone flowerbuds last summer. Probably a genetic thing. We planted these Japanese Painted Ferns and they are just beautiful. My favorite wildflower is Dutchman's Britches( Dicentra cucullaria)! Their blossoms look like tiny pants on a clothes line. Okay, this is cheating because I did not actually grow these violets but I think you might like the picture! They are really just your standard normal wild violets. I saw them on the way to campus one day and immediately brought a blossom into my friend Botany professor. (Ah, the benefits of being a Botany major!) She seemed to think that the color is due to a transposon gene, a gene that can jump around in DNA. So basically, some of the cells have it and some don't, making some cells end up as purple and some as white. Strange huh?! But beautiful!! I have never seen any like it. One more (for now blaugh ): Swiss Cheese Philodendron( Monstera obliqua). These are really cool. They develop solid, normally looking leaves but as they mature they suddenly develop holes in the leaf tissue. Why? I don't know. They just do. 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:24 am
Thanks, Tum! I love your pics, too; they're gorgeous. I've actually been trying to get a hold of a hoya, but I haven't been able to find one yet. I'm leery of buying online, but it's starting to look like that might be my only option. *sigh* Anyways, I thought I'd share a few more pictures with you all (yes, you're probably tired of it by now, but tough! xd ). The pear tree we planted last summer has taken bloom recently, and I couldn't help myself: I had to go outside and snap a bunch of pictures. Thought you might like to see: {1} {2} {3} {4} {5} {6}
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:28 pm
Killer_Cactus23 Thanks, Tum! I love your pics, too; they're gorgeous. I've actually been trying to get a hold of a hoya, but I haven't been able to find one yet. I'm leery of buying online, but it's starting to look like that might be my only option. *sigh* Hehe, I have a hoya... got it as a cutting from my grandma, hers used to be absolutely huge before she decided to trim it down. Mine hasn't flowered yet though gonk any ideas on how to get it to do so? I also have a little cactus that needs identifying, I'll post pictures when I get the chance/remember to. xd
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:12 pm
Quote: Mine hasn't flowered yet though any ideas on how to get it to do so? The only thing I have ever come across on how to encourage a Hoya to blossom is to make sure it gets lots of light. Bright light. Maybe not direct, but lots of it. Mine bloomed by...luck...I would say. But it was right in the sunny window. I'm not sure that helps! sweatdrop By all means...post some pictures of your cactus and maybe we can figure it out. Quote: I'm leery of buying online, but it's starting to look like that might be my only option. Hmm...where do you live? Strange question I suppose but do you happen to have any Home Depot-s or something of the like? I ask because one of mine came from there. Sometimes places like that can have some really cool tropical plants for cheap.
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Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 3:21 pm
Actually, I got to thinking about it, and I decided I was gonna check out this garden center that's a little ways away from where I live (in Virginia, btw). It took me a good thirty minutes to locate them, but they had a small selection of hoya plants cooped up in the greenhouse. I picked one up for about $4. I'll have to post some pictures once I get it into a proper pot.
All their other cacti were WAY too expensive, at around $20 or more. gonk crying It made me sad, because all that looking around for the hoyas made me see lots of other plants I wanted to buy (until I looked at the price stickers, anyway). Why must liberating the plants be so expensive? *sigh*
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 5:42 pm
Quote: Why must liberating the plants be so expensive? *sigh* Darn good question! But I...don't know the answer... However...REJOICE!! You finally found a Hoya! biggrin Sometimes I think that we should make a plant shipping network ourselves so that we can share plants with each other. I would love to be able to send some cacti your way! I'm not really sure why those cacti were so expensive. Especially since you got the Hoya for $4. You might try being a freelance plant rescuer in the form of taking plants of the hands of people who no longer want them. Its a noble cause indeed! Most of my plants have been cast offs. And you know what that means...FREE!!! wink
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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:44 pm
Finally remembered to get pics! lol My Daffodils out front [x]Some Bugleweed [x]Bleeding Hearts and Japanese Painted Ferns [x]My indoor Hoya [x]And finally, my unidentified cactus [x]
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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 2:56 pm
I had a cactus that looked like that once... unfortunately it didn't survive, and I don't remember what kind it was. It looks like it's two different types that have been grafted together. As for the top red part, I have no idea, but I would bet the bottom part is either an epiphyllum or a cereus. Unfortunately, I tend to not have great luck with identifying plants, so if there's someone else that knows what it is, please share with us.
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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:05 am
Yeah I think the package did say it was grafted, lol. I forget, it's been a while since I got it.
Gonna have more pictures coming soon! My cherry tree's starting to bloom now so I'm going to try to have a couple pics of that up this weekend. 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 6:05 pm
This is a photo of a poppy I grew back in 2007 
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Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 11:38 pm
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