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The herbs my mother gave me for Christmas are taking over my kitchen
window.  It's time to start thinking of transplanting some of them
into larger pots and/or the garden.

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my amalrillis is finally starting to bloom and grow...and my daffidols are
not dead!!!!!

I decided to hang to a couple of Pointsettias I got from my dad, just to
see what would happen.  BOth (one at home and one at the office) are 
starting to produce, the one at home leaves whereas the one at work new
buds.  I wonder how they will do long term?

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we had a poinsietta that we got for x-mas...it's still got the orgional bloom!
not only that, but then all the leaves fell off, then grew new ones, and now
there is a new bud in the middle of the first flower, with what seems to
be a second one!!!

in the same window lives the gerainium that was supposed to die after it
bloomed four years ago....and we keep trying to kill it by pruning everything
off!!!

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A plant I have (to be technical, the Yellow and Red leaves thingy) has
been producing leaves about the same size, until the latest set, which
were twice the size of any previous.  I think it has reached a quantum 
leaf size boundary.

My coral bells bloomed in three colors this year - red, pink and white -
after having been only pink for about ten years!  It must have mated
with a neighbor's(?)

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Steffi repotted her dwarf citrus trees. They are outside for the summer
now. They really seem to be very happy about this treatment.
We have one lemon, one orange, and one lime. We get fruit every year,
but only the lime is edible.

My contribution is making limeaid and carry the darned things in and
out. Thankfully it's only twice a year for the carrying part.
You'll recall that I have a black thumb.

help

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I chopped most of the stalks off of my rubber plant (it was getting too wide)
a couple weeks ago, and now there are dozens of new tiny stalks growing out
of the stumps.

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A sad looking, sickly Pointsettia from last Christmas is now putting out
red leaves!  Not very bright ones, but still pretty exciting.

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My caladmium plants died off during the move in August and September.  I think
I neglected them too much and they were really stressed.  I didn't know they
grew from bulbs, so I think I will just water the puppies and see if they come
up.  How cool!  I'll let you know.

Sounds like you have some really cool plants...if you want to share any,
please feel free to bring them to grexstock!  I love plants and would rather
get them from people who know about their care than a nursery.  Let me know!

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Well I have found that they like to stay moist, but not wet and they like lots
of light, but no sunlight.  The sunlight burns the leaves and makes them fade.
I have found that I need to move my plants to various places in the house.
Some like one place, while others like another place.  When the leaves fade
too much, I just back out on the light somewhat.  Seems to work...let me know
if it works for you.

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Oh that is way kewl!, Valerie!

My peace lilly is doing really well in my poorly lit house.  It even seems
to like it here.  My best outdoor plant turned out to be my basil and I have
been able to make some pesto to put in the freezer for later this winter. 
I am sooo excited!  Sage is doing well and I still have some other
unidentifiable herbs left in the garden which I am thinking about drying and
then comparing to other dried herbs I have to find out what they are...moral:
don't ever plant an herb garden you haven't thoroughly marked!

My peace lily seems to be doing fine so far.  All of my plants
are doing well now that I have a balcony to put them on.
(Which makes me worry about the approaching winter...)

My croton is flowering!  Really alien looking, at least so far.  I have no
idea how big the flower might get, though.

(is it just me or does "Croton" sound like a Dr. Who thing?)

It is, actually.  Second Doctor story.  Big metal things that
lumber about and can't shoot straight.  Much like Daleks, except
they never got popular.  >8)

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<robh puts his Tissue Compression Eliminator in his pocket, pleased
at its performance on popcorn's squash>

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Well, the croton produced a very strange little stalk with a tiny, single
petal, and then the stalk produced little 3-fingered things that started
leaking sap.  Then it fell off.  Now, months later, there is what appears to
be a little stalk with timy fruit growing on it!  Very strange.

A plant of the succulent variety that Valerie had given to me is blooming!
Once again, I have no clue what the name of it is, but it was nearly killed
off by some kind of fungus, now it has been recoving and will soon (hopefully
while I'm not on vacation) have flowers on it.

(All the really interesting plants seem to be at the office, where they get
better windows and more attention.  I've got a south window here at home, but
I don't have a good way to put plants into it.  So they have to settle for
an east window.)

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The plot thickens.  The croton didn't produce fruit, it produced tiny
"koosh-ball" shaped flowers, many of them, on a stalk that just hangs down
from the central "trunk".  These things actually smell like flowers, and are
about 1/4" in diameter.

The other flowering plant must indeed be a kalanchoe, since it has produced
tiny hot pink flowers (four leaves each).

My really cool houseplants are at the office.  My house house plants are the
rejects, which are also rather neglected and heavily abused by the cats. :(

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