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Plant recommendation for gift for kindergarten students
I recall doing something like this each spring (for several years) growing up, and the plant of choice was Marigolds (planted in a paper cup, as far as I recall) which were grown in class and then ...
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Plant recommendation for gift for kindergarten students
My two suggestions; Scarlet Runner Beans and the second is Carex testacea or Orange Sedge. Easy to grow, very pretty no matter its age, wonderful to tuck into any plant bed or pot, nice just left in ...
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Plant with orange-red leaves and white-purplish flowers, can anyone help me identify it?
It is coleus! The shape of leaves, colour and the flower stick confirms it's a coleus.
There's a lot of varieties of coleus of different colours and shape. This may be Big Red Judy or Color Blaze ...
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Plant recommendation for gift for kindergarten students
Have you considered something as simple as Garden Cress (Lepidium sativum)?
You can simply hand out a pack of seeds and a piece of cotton wool. The kids can then "plant" it themselves (really just ...
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What is this plant with almost round leaves with radial veins?
That's a Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus), identified by its almost round leaves with the stems joining the leaves slightly off center, and the pronounced radial veins. Some cultivars are trailing and ...
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Plants for under blue spruce tree
A chunk of my garden is acidic, mostly dry shade, so here's what does well for me:
Groundcovers: Lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) - may require more water than you have under the trees, ...
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Which plant is this?
I don't know what you mean by 'frosty' leaves, but the plant looks like a Petunia, specifically, a double flowered variety similar to the one pictured here https://www.bakker.com/en-gb/p/petunia-...
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Any guesses what these seedlings are, and whether I should remove them?
That appears to be a sunflower seedling (Helianthus annuus). it could have come from bird seed, or droppings.
They can get quite large, and if you can put them in the ground that's ideal (if you ...
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What should I consider before vacuum-sealing seeds for storage?
The enemies of seeds are: heat, light and humidity, by controlling these you can store some seeds for many years.
Keep seeds at a cool to cold temperature of 40 degrees or less.
Avoid fluctuations in ...
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Can trailing fuchsias survive the winter if selectively brought indoors?
Fuchsias are only annuals in the sense that they die if they experience temperatures that are too cold. They are woody plants that can be long-lived if they're happy. I've over-wintered hanging basket ...
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Plausible explanation for abrupt total disappearance of balsam?
It is difficult to tell, and we risk to put opinions instead of facts in our answers.
An abrupt total disappearance does not seem very probable, especially for an invasive species), so if it is ...
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Why are my morning glory flowers closing so early?
Morning Glory plants are very sensitive barometers. For the flower to bloom, their internal hydrostatic pressure must exceed the surrounding atmospheric pressure. These plants are pressurized by the ...
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Help required in recognizing plant
It's Jacobea maritima (previously named Senecio/Cineraria), common names include Dusty Miller. It is often grown as an annual plant as part of a summer display, but is actually a tender perennial ...
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Plant recommendation for gift for kindergarten students
Sensitive plants! - Mimosa pudica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimosa_pudica Cheap, easy to grow, react when you touch them, pretty fuzzball flowers, will survive in a fairly small pot.
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Plant recommendation for gift for kindergarten students
I agree that the 23rd of June is going to be kind of late for most tomatoes. There are some varieties that might perform better than average when planted later, but I don't recommend planting tomatoes ...
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What is this plant with almost round leaves with radial veins?
By the way, they're very edible. Both the leaves and flowers can be used in salads, and even the seed pods can be pickled as a sort of caper. They are peppery, like cress (in Dutch, they're called ...
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Plants for under blue spruce tree
blueberries are often grown under coniferous trees as they will lower the PH, which blueberry trees love.
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Slugs and snails eating lettuce?
Very well looks like that could be slug/snail damage. If you have a small amount of lettuce plants then just going outside at night with a flashlight and hand pulling off plants and the ground will ...
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Keep potted Cardinal Climber plants through the winter?
I know this post is old, but I brought mine inside last winter and it did wonderful this spring and summer. I am now on my second winter bringing this plant inside and it is doing really well.
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Why are my Golden Empire Bidens dying?
Bidens is an annual plant - it is designed to germinate, grow vegetatively and then flower, seed and die. If you happen to catch an annual as it is declining after flowering and it gets set in its ...
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What is this plant grown from a pack of annual seeds (UK)?
This is Impatiens balsamina or Balsam impatiens. The stems are quite soft and almost translucent, can grow to about 2 feet tall and the leaves can be quite long and strap like. They can take quite a ...
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I need to identify this Unusual plant growing in pot in my garden
I believe that's an Amaranth - Amaranthus tricolor.
Native to Southeastern Asia into Africa, it's a perennial in zones 9b+ and is usually treated as an annual elsewhere. Propagation is via seed. ...
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Do spring-flowering bulbs inhibit the growth of other plants?
I've had this problem myself. It only seemed to occur in a large container which was pretty crammed with layers of different bulbs, and I concluded it was because there's insufficient soil room for ...
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Please identify this pale green weed
That is a petty spurge, also known as milk weed, radium weed, or cancer weed.
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Plants for under blue spruce tree
I am in MN and have had good luck under spruce trees with pulmonaria/lungwort in shadier spots and catmint (walker's low) and salvia in the sunnier areas. I water the lungwort especially, and drip ...
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Plants for under blue spruce tree
You have two issues under spruce:
It's dark. If the branches go all the way to the ground good luck growing anything but mushrooms and politicians.
It's dry. Spruce are water pigs. Rainfall tends ...
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What is this plant with dark green ovate hairy leaves in my indoor pot?
That is a Petunia x hybrida. It Must have germinated from a petunia that went to seed in the mix earlier. If you give it daylight it should bloom, although it might not be the most attractive form.
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