If you have an unheated basement, that's an excellent place to store the dormant bulb after frost knocks back the foliage. Let it get mostly dry,...
Well this is fascinating, sorry I didn't know what you meant either. Love the stuff I learn on the internet! Thanks for sharing the pics, you...
Barb in PA, I think I misunderstood, sorry, thought you were trying to ID your plant. The ones I've grown from seed do the same thing, make a...
Barb, that looks like M. jalapa to me. Was it sticking out of the soil like that when you got it? Are the flowers fragrant?
Nice color!
Chocolate, (great name, btw!) your Pseuderanthemum is fantastic! I just got a tiny one recently and hope it gets to look like yours next summer....
These are excellent solutions, to add weeds to pests forum, and add prop to seeds. Thanks for considering my humble suggestions. Totally agree...
Cheryl, forgot to ask you. Does your Oxalis go dormant for winter? I threw one away years ago and it was probably just dormant (which I didn't...
Absolutely love this site, the functionality and the folks! Really enjoying it and look forward to exploring more non-gardening sections when I...
Cheryl, if you're in Z8, it should be hardy, so would probably fare better in the ground to do its' natural thing. They make huge tubers under...
Great job on keeping the plants growing so well! The tree does sound like Dracaena (note spelling.) There are several kinds, but I would look at...
If they're Mirabilis jalapa, they should have a prominent swelling at the nodes, and possibly a reddish tint at nodes, and/or along the stems....
I've had one of these for decades and disagree with a couple things on the ehow page. Like, "These typically need to be watered only twice a...
Panic night? First frost, it's the same thing every year, "Where are all of these pots going to go?" Frost is reasonable here after mid-Oct but...
Thanks! Don't'cha love it when things work out like that? Sweet! I was going to guess that was which T. you have but yours is so purple...
Great plants! LOVE LOVE LOVE that Tradescantia! Do you know which one it is? What kind of exposure is your Cordyline in? I got one a few...
Thanks! Smiles! Back of leaves "counts" and any purple stripes or spots...
I have a lot of purple leaves but my heart will always belong to Persian shield. [img] Potted Persian shield (Strobilanthes dyerianus) (...
The ones that are so similar to Edlou's pic are the ones that confuse me: T. ohiensis, virgianiana, bracteata, andersoniana, subaspera,...
Netty, please share your secret for telling these Tradescantias apart!
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