Gardening and Plant Thread

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What are some good apartment plants? Things that stay kind of small, and are okay in dim light. I have a, aloe vera, spider plant, snake plant, ponytail palm, dragon tail, and peace lily, and some plant I'm not sure of, but it has thick waxy leaves and red flowers. I have a small porch where I keep my red maple and I'm going to get a dwarf lemon tree, so there's not much room out there. I'm thinking of getting some over the rail planters so I can plant some flowers up there, but I really want more indoor plants.
 
What are some good apartment plants? Things that stay kind of small, and are okay in dim light. I have a, aloe vera, spider plant, snake plant, ponytail palm, dragon tail, and peace lily, and some plant I'm not sure of, but it has thick waxy leaves and red flowers. I have a small porch where I keep my red maple and I'm going to get a dwarf lemon tree, so there's not much room out there. I'm thinking of getting some over the rail planters so I can plant some flowers up there, but I really want more indoor plants.
I like dracaena marginata a lot because it cannot die. I barely touch mine and it's doin' a-ok. Only thing is that it can get tall and bushy like a palm tree.
Christmas cactus's can also live in low light conditions, the only thing they need is for their soil to be kept damp to the touch and about 50-60% humidity. You can raise humidity by placing the plant pot on a dish of river stones/pebbles and filling the dish with water. The water will evaporate and raise the humidity around the plant. I keep my Christmas cactus in the bathroom because I figure that is the optimal place for it.
African violets like indirect light, and if you make a wick watering system for it (only costs a few bucks) it's literally the easiest plant in the universe to care for
 
Its time for da update. I noticed a third sealed tube in my mason bee nest. Probably the last.
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My swamp milkweed seedlings. I'll keep a few at home in pots and plant the rest at my lakeside cabin.
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Poke milkweeds. I had more, but planted them while they were too small and kept getting ravaged by chipmunks, so i repotted them. The third and fourth smaller pots are climbing milkweed.
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Ive strategically planted four goldenrods around the yard. Heres one
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and two
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My American bittersweet pair survived the winter, and i will be moving them tomarrow since i figured which is male and female.
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Bonus mt laural.
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One out of three purple milkweeds. This ones the healthiest. Notice the homemade critter cage i made after one was probably killed after something dug it up. The last is doing meh.
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I got four nodding onions. I see a flower head poking up!
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My wild dockmackie (maple-leafed viburnum)
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A pair of summer grapes.
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Last summer i pulled out a lot of lilly of the valley and creeping euonymus. In its place i put wild geraniums, jack in the pulpits, and two spicebushes. The orange flags mark where i planted the jacks.
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Spicebush close up.
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Four black huckleberry bushes. Im hoping they'll grow where nothing else will.
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I planted a whole bunch of winterberry, but its not doing well. I should have put it in last fall instead.
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Winterberry.
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finally, i got 6 common milkweeds planted down by the road where its just dirt. And three butterflyweed plants i'll put in with them, as soon as they come.
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After two years of growing in the same pot, the dwarf blueberry bush finally has flower buds and that means it will make blueberries this year! Last year it didn't produce flowers because it was still young and had to establish itself, if it had made flowers I would have had to take them off for it's health.
It only costed 20 bucks and it came with a 1 year warranty, considering how well it's doing I'd say it was a good investment.
I planted a blueberry last fall and its doing alright. Would it be a good idea to snip off the few berries that are forming so it devotes its energy to growing more, or would that harm the plant at this point?
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I planted a blueberry last fall and its doing alright. Would it be a good idea to snip off the few berries that are forming so it devotes its energy to growing more, or would that harm the plant at this point?View attachment 101400View attachment 101401
Most people say to not let blueberry bushes produce for a few years but those berries are so far along I figure you may as well keep them
 
I bought a rose bush (hybrid tea) and from what I understand I should not fertilize it until it has it's first bloom.
It's in a giant ass pot (I bought hybrid tea because I wanted it in a pot. If it does not do well I can clear out a garden plot and stick it in there) with miracle grow potting mix.
Anybody know shit about roses? The world of the rose is an unfamiliar one to me
 
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I prepared my precious baby swamp milkweeds for their trip to maine tomorrow. Goodluck and Godspeed.
 
Well, me and my boyfriend broke up, and I couldn't take my plants with me upon leaving. RIP.

Last I checked, aphids completely destroyed the cucumber plant basically overnight and the zucchini plant was pretty much done for due to rodents, although we did get to eat one zucchini before it died!

My tomato produced tons of fruit, so I feel pretty successful :D I didn't get to eat a single one, but it's the little victories, right? I can't wait to try again next year. In the meantime, I might start a little windowsill herb garden or something.
 
Hey guys, I'm planning on planting wild flowers for my bees. Any suggestions?
Here's a list of things that I find bees love from experience
-Lavender
-Butterfly bush
-Any kind of pea plant that makes peas
-Thistles (these are evil though, destroy them)
-Milkweed of various species- milkweed is the fav I find, it attracts all sorts of native insects and is also a host plant for monach butterflies!
Also get some of that premade bee friendly wildflower seed mix
 
Hey guys, I'm planning on planting wild flowers for my bees. Any suggestions?
Plant clover in your yard. @Pepsi
Fruit trees are a great source of early pollen and nectar (apple,pear,cherry...) Ive always noticed lots of honeybees on our mint plants. Bees go NUTS over Basswood trees when they flower in june/july. Goldenrods are also useful for bees, since they bloom later when other flowers are running out of steam. Check out http://www.pollinator.org/guides.htm#
 
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The tomato is five feet tall SEND HELP
I had to actually trim it because it was starting to bend the giant bamboo pole that's supposed to hold it up. It has roughly 36 tomatos on it too.
Edit: when I say trim I meant to say prune. I pruned it, trimming implies I chopped off the top
 
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