How does your garden grow?

[Sara-s]

Let’s talk plants. Whether you grow a lawn, flowers, vegetables or potted houseplants, let’s hear about them.

I grow Bonsai trees. A bit about them, for those that aren’t familiar with them;
1) It’s pronounced “bone-sigh” not “banzai” (which is a Japanese battle cry.)
2) Bonsai roughly translates to “tree in a pot”

I grow both indoor and outdoor plants. My tropicals live inside until mid-spring. Then I put them outside for the warmer seasons. The outdoor plants are native to temperate climates & stay outside all year. Here are some of my indoor plants;



Top row, left to right- Weeping ficus, variegated ficus, Umbrella tree.
Middle row- 2 aloe plants & a little cactus
Bottom- far right- Baby Jade tree,

 

[CBLindsay]

My son tries very hard to grow (keep alive) Bonsai trees. He’s getting better at doing it, he is even able to prune and shape them now. A lovely hobbie if you can do it.

 

[Sara-s]

@CBLindsay It takes time to learn and inevitably, a bonsai grower will lose a tree or two along the way. My advice is to just get another tree & try again, when it happens.

 

[heysi]

I can grow most anything.....except bonsai. They just don't like me. And I want so badly to have one.

 

[Sara-s]

If you really want to grow one, here are a few tips;
1)Buy a basic book on bonsai care, before you buy any plants.
2) Don’t buy your plants from a kiosk at the mall-they are not good plants.
3)Buy a couple of plants. If you just have one, there is a tendency to “love it to death”.
4) Even the best growers lose plants sometimes. If one dies, just get another plant.

 

[CBLindsay]

Good advice @Sara-s
My son bought a few plants from a well established place that agrees to replace those that die an untimely death. He has had a couple that did poorly and he has exchanged them for ones that are doing well. The "love to death" is a true risk. not that they tolerate being ignored BUT it seems that any plant we have kept alive does best when we almost forget we have them.

 

[Fenster]

At work I have a succulent garden and a snake plant.

At home I have several succulent pots and some aquarium plants.

 

[BarberDave]

At work I have a succulent garden and a snake plant. View attachment 157070

At home I have several succulent pots and some aquarium plants.

he secretly wants to live in the desert