Strongly considering collecting seeds and planting these around trees as revenge on squirrels for digging up seedlings and stealing fruit. 😈… 🐿️🐿️🐿️😱☠️
Some plants are trickier to water than others :) Also, it needs a re-potting and better light setup (it looks like some parts are getting too much light and others too little). This is a Sedum Morganianum aka Donkey or Burro's Tail. In the old location it was hanging from a hook and now it's just kind of draped over a shelf. When the leaves fall off as they do with each move and watering I just drop them back into the pot.
Doing some spring pruning today. I usually like to let the plants grow the way they want, but in this case (and with some other plants I'll be trimming) they get too unbalanced and can topple over or stem weakening. This Pachyphytum Oviferum branched and offset/cloned a new smaller plant, and then grew sideways.
It was really cute and I wanted to leave it like this but the head of the original plant was too heavy to support over time.
@plants I showed Draba aizoides yesterday, which was the first #flower to open in the #garden on Sunday, but several more opened yesterday, in time for #EarthDay
2 vids in replies show all the flowers and a short walk.
Sunny heading for 18C today, so there should be lots more Crocus at least today! #spring#Alberta#RockGarden#florespondence#BloomScrolling
Spring has sprung all over our yard! This area under a giant Linden tree has only been planted for a couple years, but it is really starting to look good.
The tulips didn't bloom at all last year but have spread into larger clumps and are blooming beautifully.
Leaves and flowers are edible but not fine eating. The flowers are better than the leaves - tastes like a floral, a bit overripe cucumber. The leaves are grassy.
Rabbits love this plant and will chew it down to stubble so if you actually want to see flowers, it needs protection.
The flowers and leaves are edible but too cute to eat. But in case you are wondering, the flowers taste like lettuce with hint of cucumber and leaves taste like lightly peppery cucumber.
Not only did the peace lily produce seeds: the seeds germinated, and now I have a number of ever so small peace lily seedlings.
On March 2nd I sowed some seeds on a wet paper towel in a petri dish that sat in the windowsill.
On March 29th some of the seeds seemed to have germinated (see first photo — can you spot the tiny roots?) and the germinated seeds were transferred to small pots that were kept in a “greenhouse” made from a plastic bag to avoid dehydration.
The second photo was taken today (April 20th) and shows a couple of seedlings that have developed their first leaf. Match for scale.
This is a project that has called for patience:
The period from pollination to seeds took 4-5 months. Then it took roughly 1 month for the seeds to germinate, and 3 weeks later the seedlings have just a tiny leaf each. Things can still go wrong, but I'm pretty confident that I will end up having several mature peace lilly plants grown from seeds.
Meanwhile, I have cross-pollinated two peace lily plants. One was the plant I've had for 10+ years. The other was a “miniature” plant I bought last summer, that was meant to sit on the very narrow windowsill in my bathroom. I was naive enough to hope that some gardener had developed a miniature cultivar of the peace lily, but I was fooled: the plant was just a baby plant of something that has now grown into a mature peace lily plant. Latipac be damned!
Now I hope that the two plants are unrelated, and not just perpetuated clones, so that the cross-pollination introduces some genetic variability. Perhaps I am wiser at the end of 2024.