"be kind, be calm, be safe"
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"be kind, be calm, be safe"
homegrown yarn and fibre
homegrown linen ~ crowing hen farm ~ how permies works
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
"be kind, be calm, be safe"
homegrown yarn and fibre
homegrown linen ~ crowing hen farm ~ how permies works
"We're all just walking each other home." -Ram Dass
"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder."-Rumi
And he said, "I want to live as an honest man, to get all I deserve, and to give all I can, and to love a young woman whom I don't understand. Your Highness, your ways are very strange."
"Also, just as you want men to do to you, do the same way to them" (Luke 6:31)
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I like my orchids and ferns for this. I know they don't want too much water, but they do better if they have a little humidity tray under them, which needs constant refilling. No overwatering and happy plants that way.What I think it is for me is that there they are, right in plain sight all day and my instinct is to 'do' something...or at least wonder if they need something whereas the gardens, the hoop house, the orchard are places I visit maybe once a day maybe not and I see a bigger picture of their ongoing needs if any or I make a list for the next time. Houseplants are just too intrusive when I walk by with my drinking glass of water and think that one looks thirsty so they get some water. Or they are too close to the stove or too cold in the kitchen...they bring out my fussy side.
"Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky."
r ranson wrote:
Jenny Jones
Skandi Rogers wrote:Your first one is a mother of thousands. and a very apt name, the second is mother in laws tongue, the third is a christmas cactus and the last one is a jade/money plant. All pretty resilient and good if you are likely to forget to water them! Well done with getting the jade plant to flower, that's a hard trick even the big botanical gardens struggle with that one.
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"Also, just as you want men to do to you, do the same way to them" (Luke 6:31)
Inge Leonora-den Ouden wrote:
Skandi Rogers wrote:Your first one is a mother of thousands. and a very apt name, the second is mother in laws tongue, the third is a christmas cactus and the last one is a jade/money plant. All pretty resilient and good if you are likely to forget to water them! Well done with getting the jade plant to flower, that's a hard trick even the big botanical gardens struggle with that one.
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Thank you for giving the names in English. My cactus is not christmassy, it flowers in November (every year). And that 'jade plant' ... I did nothing to make it flower, it just happened.
Mark Reed wrote:...
Hi, Inge Leonora-den Ouden. Looks like you also have the gift, I love your pictures.
"Also, just as you want men to do to you, do the same way to them" (Luke 6:31)
Jan White wrote:I think the key to getting jades to flower is to let them get quite cold for a while in the fall and keep them in bright light. Ours flower every year with no effort, too. We move most of our plants outside for the summer. ...
"Also, just as you want men to do to you, do the same way to them" (Luke 6:31)
"be kind, be calm, be safe"
homegrown yarn and fibre
homegrown linen ~ crowing hen farm ~ how permies works
The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance.~Ben Franklin
"be kind, be calm, be safe"
homegrown yarn and fibre
homegrown linen ~ crowing hen farm ~ how permies works
Bless your Family,
Mike
Our inability to change everything should not stop us from changing what we can.
Our inability to change everything should not stop us from changing what we can.
Inge Leonora-den Ouden wrote:
Thank you for giving the names in English. My cactus is not christmassy, it flowers in November (every year). And that 'jade plant' ... I did nothing to make it flower, it just happened.
Hester Winterbourne wrote:
Inge Leonora-den Ouden wrote:
Thank you for giving the names in English. My cactus is not christmassy, it flowers in November (every year). And that 'jade plant' ... I did nothing to make it flower, it just happened.
See, the reason I often use latin names for plants is that many plants are known by different names in different parts of the world, or even in the same part of the world. Common plant names do not always translate from one language to another. And sometimes, you can have the same common name for two very different plants. I just had an example of this in another thread where I was talking about lime trees, but not the green citrus sort, the Tilia sort which are called lime trees in English as a corruption of "line" because they used to be used for making string!
But with botanic names, anyone in any country (apart from a few pronunciation differences) would know exactly what plant I was talking about, especially now we have google and you can look up what other common names they might have. And it also gives you an idea what other plants they are related to that might be of interest to you or give you clues about looking after them. Until the botanists decide to re-classify them with new names of course, but that's another story!
"Also, just as you want men to do to you, do the same way to them" (Luke 6:31)