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Previously on /plant/ https://desuarchive.org/an/thread/5011007 (janny deleted the old thread for some reason???)

I usually post in /out/'s gardening general but they exemplify the modern nu-gardening that only cares about growing tomatoes and peppers, so I will try my luck here. Pic related is an old moss rose.

>>5019859
>only cares about growing tomatoes and peppers
Don't forget tomatoes, carrots, and zucchini

The chad's choice

>>5019868
I like collards and kale, they keep producing well into fall and even early winter.

>>5019853 (OP)
i have like 30 of these growing all of my yard since i stopped weeding... which is fucked up since i ordered and germinated seeds this year

>>5019859
beautiful
old rose varieties are really underrated

>>5019953
Yes they are fabulous and their history is fascinating too

A honey bee on my fennel.

Can Moon Cactus live long healthy cactus lives and grow big and strong as long as they're not bright red all the way around? Found a guy selling these and want to know if I'd just be buying the plant equivalent of a pug. Barely speaks english because of course he doesn't so I can hardly ask questions, said they weren't from seed, knew enough to call them Gymnocalycium Milhanovichii when asked.

>>5020144
They'll be fine, Gymnos pup like madmen which is why there's nobody with just one. The pups will even variegate differently so you can choose your favorite pattern!

>>5019859
I come from the other school of modern nu-gardening that only cares about growing local natives as part of an ecosystem garden but that's a pretty nice flower

Anyone have a list of black flowers?

>>5020195
in fairness a lot of random natives from the roadside are bangers

if natives were so great they wouldnt get btfo by invases KWAB

>>5020231
I grow those.

>>5020304
Its kind of funny how in every environment on earth, no matter how hyperspecialized to become perfecfly adapted to the conditions around them any animal spends the last hundred billion years becoming, they just get completely mogged by generic-ass dogs and cats every single time.

>>5019859
It's a shame my mum died. She would have appreciated your roses. She was a botanist and our back garden growing up had so many bizarre plants and flowers I've never seen anywhere else.
>>5019853 (OP)
A neighbour grew maypop a few years ago but I never got to try the fruit, if it even made any. All my wife grows are the sorts of things >>5019859 hates lmao
But at least they're uncommon (to wypipo) varieties, I guess, cuz we're Asian. Like, she grows these round, yellow, sour cucumbers, for example.

>>5020231
>>5020390
One of the primary ways that invasives take hold is actually disturbed areas such as road berms. In a mature forest, every niche is filled and there isn't any room for something like knotweed or purple loosestrife to take root but in areas that are regularly mowed, tilled or otherwise disturbed the fastest growing plants are the ones that take hold and that's often invasives which can tolerate subpar growing conditions such as highly contaminated roadside soil.

>>5020410
Also there are fewer animals that will eat them and pathogens that target them to keep their numbers down.

i'm running out of terracota
soon I will be forced to stop impulse buying

>>5020420
>Terra cotta
>Impulse buying
Why is it always succfags who can't control themselves?

>>5020390
dogs and cats are just carried by humans desu. we actively breed them and intentionally or unintentionally release them where they fill niches formerly occupied by predators we actively kill

Have I been stupid in thinking I'll have to collect rainwater for the winter
wouldn't there be no difference from just scooping up snow and letting it melt

>>5019853 (OP)
Smoking passion passion flower gives u a small buzz, mixing it with gangweed gives it a really mellow feel!

>>5020840
Snow is deceptively very dirty and what you end up with after it all melts is significantly less than the amount of snow you gathered.
I collected top layer of snow, packed it into a bucket as much as I could, and as the snow melted, it looked like those dirty snowbanks you see in a parking lot when spring is rolling around, and I ended up with roughly a puddle of dirty water at the bottom of my container which was packed full and had a small mountain of snow built on top of it.

>>5020851
Isn't dirty water good because it has trace nutrients and such? I doubt any harmful molds or insects are going to be hanging out in pure snow.

>>5020852
I don't really know, but I remember thinking that I was going to take advantage of all the snow, only to be really disappointed.

>>5020859
Meh, I'm patient. Collecting snow each day will give me something to do. The consistency will be nice over seething every time it rains while I'm at work (which is every time)

What are these on my cissus rotundifolia..?
It looks produced by the plant itself, but if something that produces turds this big, I should see damage, which ai don't.

>>5020885
I knew it, it's produced by the plant, sticky sap so it can latch on easier.
Thank you nature for scaring me..

>Post question on /plant/
>Find the answer yourself before anybody responds
literally every single time

>>5020432
Because we have actual variety of genera and species unlike carnivorcels who have like 4 different plants to choose from

>>5020969
and they're all so tiny and cute!!!!

The tropical virgin driving half an hour to a garden center to debate whether he wants to spend a hundred dollars on a new spider mite infestation
The Succulent GOD going to the department store 2 minutes away from him and nursing $3 plants back into beautiful specimens by dropping them outside and forgetting they exist

Heh... tread carefully now, you're about to enter my Savage Garden... In this place, life and death are intertwined, careful not to step wrong... or you may become fertilizer next!
The plants:
>I-IS THAT A VITAMIN??? AIIEEEEEEE SAVE ME GARDENMAN

Is it worth growing mimosas as a ground cover around fruit trees instead of mulching? I only have some seeds from a thorny species (looks like quadrivalvis), but there seem to be strigillosa seeds available online. Does living mulch make any noticeable difference?

>>5021062
>Does living mulch make any noticeable difference?
it does when you use stuff like mimosa because it fixes nitrogen

A new terrarium I've built. It's been a good way to utilize crystals I've collected.

>>5021203
qt :3

>>5021062
Mulch, living or not, will help with moisture retention.

monarch eggs in my milkweed

>>5021485

i have some lunaria plants im growing indoors and both of them have tiny stems and comically huge leaves, bot of them need a crutch to stay upright. will they get better?

>>5021564
I think this is the scenario where you're unironically supposed to use a fan

If sunburn is caused by the plant not getting enough water to a leaf to deal with the amount of sun it's getting, shouldn't making sure it's topped up on water ward against it?
Not completely, obviously, but is it a good idea to water my plants the night before if I know tomorrow's supposed to be really hot?

>>5021609
I'd never heard that theory on plant sunburn. My understanding was that a plant may be green under normal conditions, and as UV exposure increases and the plant produces anthocyanin to protect the chlorophyll you start to see those reds and orange "stress colors" If the exposure continues the cells start to die and you see the brown scabs of dead "skin" cells on the plants.

>>5021615
water your plants prior to hot weather anyways though. Be careful, because water droplets left on the surface of plant leaves can concentrate the sun and cause burns or permanent marks on the plant though so I'd recommend bottom watering

>>5021617
>Be careful, because water droplets left on the surface of plant leaves can concentrate the sun and cause burns or permanent marks
That is not even true lmao why do people believe this shit. Ever heard about rain?

Ideas for labelling outdoor pots if I think the little stick signs are unbelievably tacky and waste pot space?
I can only assume stickers or tape would run off in the rain

A plants first heat wave is bittersweet because its going to fuck them up but they'll be ready for anything and primed to thrive afterwards.

On the one hand, I just want this leaf to fucking propogate already
But on the other, I'm fascinated that a single leaf from a dying plant has lived on its own for almost a month

this sunflower in my bird seed mess finna go sunflowerpalooza