The Gardeners Thread

[damian83]

View attachment 261733my bonsai looking healthy

 

[Jason.s]

some of mine

 

[Jay84]

I live in a rental property so can't really do too much in the garden. When we moved in in January it was a blank canvas...... Now it is green and planted etc. it's coming along very nicely.

Cymbidium Orchids

Bromeliads that my housemate and I planted on an old tree fern stump to liven up the drab back fence!

Tree Dahlia

Camelia

Apricot Blossom

Dendrobium Orchids we 'planted' to the tree fern. These are now all in bud and will be covered in flowers.

 

[Jason.s]

Nice orchids Jay!

 

[caliherp]

Here is a couple more picks for today. And a bonus, one of my geckos sleeping in its sanseveria. @ Smithers stop holding back. I want to see what you got.

 

[jahan]

Some old pics.

 

[Smithers]

Here is a couple more picks for today. And a bonus, one of my geckos sleeping in its sanseveria. @ Smithers stop holding back. I want to see what you got.
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Thanks everyone for adding to the thread.....

Caliherps,..in good time, Watch the one in the 1st pic in this set...it self seeds really well and pops up everywhere...if you haven't already noticed

Nice Wollemi pine Jason,.....

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Are they epiphyllums? Nice bunch of flowers your getting...are you in a warmer climate?

 

[Chris1]

im always on the lookout for funky hanging plants,...i also love the gnarled trunk of my plum tree

 

[jahan]

Hi smithers, yes the red one`s are Epiphyllums and i`m in w/vic cold climate.
Jason.s is that a condom pitcher in your first pic?

 

[caliherp]

Thanks everyone for adding to the thread.....

Caliherps,..in good time, Watch the one in the 1st pic in this set...it self seeds really well and pops up everywhere...if you haven't already noticed
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Lol im well aware of it. Kalanchoe diagremontiana grows like a weed for me. I had two specamins flower for me last year. i got atleast 1000 viable plantlets from them. i couldent find enough people to get rid of them. It is a fun and easy plant to grow. but a pain in the @ss to pull all the plantlets strewn about my yard. i like your Kalanchoe tomentosa. i have a couple aswell as a c.v choclate soldier. it looks like crap at the moment, the summer sun faded it.
Edit: you can see a little K. diagremontiana growing in the pot with it.

 

[Smithers]

Nice, didn't know they came in other colours...nice Beharensis is one of my faves...I got it to grow as a shrub rather than the tall rather larger leafed plant they'd grow in the desert.

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Can't find my pic of beharensis lol

 

[caliherp]

So Smithers its a contest huh? I have to take some picks then ill post some more. Im to lazey to upload some others from my camra. keep in mind its summer here in Calli. From seeing the nice variety of succulents you have you know how it is the summer suns bleaches colors on some succulents. :Edit what the hell heres a couple more.

Smithers is that a E. Black Prince floering for you rite now?

 

[Smithers]

Noice agave americana grow well in the ground,.....no contest sharing...

I tried lithops without success maybe over watered and over loved it. Wonder what a bunch in a terrarium under a spot light would go like.....

That E. Black Prince image was a while ago now,... Nothing much doing in my pots atm,..I haven't watered for ages and will start to re pot a few this season. Although my aloe plicatilis (fan aloe) flowered this winter it's in the images above I bring it in -4c it does not like.Found my K. beharensis pic

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[Jason.s]

Some more.

 

[caliherp]

Noice agave americana grow well in the ground,.....no contest sharing...

I tried lithops without success maybe over watered and over loved it. Wonder what a bunch in a terrarium under a spot light would go like.....

That E. Black Prince image was a while ago now,... Nothing much doing in my pots atm,..I haven't watered for ages and will start to re pot a few this season. Although my aloe plicatilis (fan aloe) flowered this winter it's in the images above I bring it in -4c it does not like.Found my K. beharensis pic

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Nice plants and garden. Judgeing by the looks of your picks it has grown it for at least 3 seasons. You have a great eye for placement and arangement. If your talking about the americana in my pic, its to small to plant in the ground at the moment. Sadley my mother americana died in a bad frost last year. Lithops are a hit and miss for me. Through ALOT of experimentation i have found that they like to be grown like cactuses except for less light. Another thing i have found is they will usually die when you water them when they are growing new leaves. i wait untell the old leafs are completeley dry. I was just wondering about the black prince because mine is flowering at the moment. The Aloe your talking about is probabley a winter grower. whats that Echeveria first pick last set crossed with? I also love thoes two brom blooms in the last set(if i i.d them corectley) here are a few picktures of some Aloes and Aloe hybrids. Sorry for the bad last pick.

 

[Smithers]

Thanks for the Lithop tips. I see aloe's are your thing...just got myself a tree aloe and it's having it's first winter outside close to the house and has survived with some orange at the tips...

The Eche is a Blue Curl that's all the info I have on that one Cali

Get many birds in with the Banksia's in flower jason?

Here's a little something that flew into my garden about a month ago..not a plant but in the garden.

 

[caliherp]

Thanks for the Lithop tips. I see aloe's are your thing...just got myself a tree aloe and it's having it's first winter outside close to the house and has survived with some orange at the tips...

The Eche is a Blue Curl that's all the info I have on that one Cali

:Edit: i forgot to ad, dont water lithops during the winter. Just like all winter growers. and ill add another lithop. picture.

No problem im happy to help. Aloe and Echeveria are my favorite succulent Genuses. Iknow im a little late but i dug up a crappy pick of a mature plantlet growing on a leaf on my K. diagremontiana. I might as well post an Echeveria teaser.

 

[Smithers]

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^ Crassula ovata cv gollum (found it's name online lol) Is about 10yrs old. I lost half of it to frost the 1st yr I moved to Canberra :/

Plantlets naww,......still vermin lol

I might look at the lithops again damn you lol....never seen any down here though...I'll have to visit one of my favourite places on the planet,...Hamiltons World of Cactus,..... Fourth Ave, Llandilo, NSW.

Has a great variety of both succulents and cactus and supplies K-Mart, etc

 

[Jason.s]

I get heaps of birds up here Smithers of all sorts, and this will break your hart but when i go walking through the bush around my place we get heaps of those very plants you are posting in rubish piles still growing i hate seeing it because it recks the bush, but sometime if there's something i don't have i take it next time i go for a walk and see some thing i'll take some picks so you can see how waistfull people are.

Here's a funny pick for all you gardeners i hope i don't upset anyone but i am jelouse of this tree on my little beach area my partner seems to like it though lol.:lol:

And here's the full pic.

It's a Red Edge Pandanus or Screw pine and its not called that for that reason, it's because of the leaf structure i like watering it and watching the water run down around the leaves like a water feature.

 

[caliherp]

Smithers that ovata is huge. I have a small purple form. heres a couple pictures for today.@ Jason damn you can i get a latin name on that palm. You just made me add another plant to my mile long list.