h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Noticed you were into exotic houseplants. Are you interested in gesneriads, orchids, and carniverous plants, by chance?

I've yet to attempt to kill any gesneriads or orchids. Actually I'm not even sure what a gesneriad is.

I have one carniverous plant it's called a Pitcher Plant and it is doing very well. I'm perticularly fond of suclents rite now; there is a super cool green house not far from where I live............

Gesneriads are in the same family as African Violets. Orchids really are difficult to kill. I'm mildly obsessed with them, of course, so I will encourage you to convert to the dark side of the family Orchidae...

Pitcher plants are fun, but I kill them with great ease. They are so fun when other people have them, though! I did a bit with the cacti and jade for awhile, but jade is too easy for me to kill, too. Ooooooh, a greenhouse. Does it specialize in succulents? I wish we had one around here.

The pictures on this link hardly do it justice but.. http://www.kingwoodcenter.org/
it's a public place that nowhere near enough people take advantage of, it's one of my favorite places.

I have two different types of Jade, I propagated them from little sprouts. Alot of my more rare plants came from clipings I borrowed from the green house, nothing that would ever hurt the host plant...
How ironic that I have never been able to get a Violet to make it past one season, yet I have a three year old pitcher plant that is flourishing.?. My voilets never bloom again and then slowly dwindle away to nothing worth having.

WOW. That is really incredible, especially if it's nicer than that. The botanical gardens in Atlanta is about as close as we get to anything around here. I can see how that's one of your favorite places. You could spend hours there, no?

I water it too much, I was told, and then there's the pot that I left on top of the refrigerator... Hehe, I've done that too with lavender...

I can usually get AVs to grow, but blooming them is a different story. My orchids are a lot easier to grow and bloom than those things. Someone off of a forum I'm on offered me some and I thought I'd make another attempt.

I spend alot of time there. They also have a duck pond, peecocks roaming freely around the grounds, and some other funcky birds(I think their Guinies<?&gt.

I killed 3 or 4 Aloe plants before I figured out that your not supposed to water suclents, now I have several types of suclent and have to force myself to only water them like once a month, or less.
I might have to try an orchid sounds, I'll keep my eye's open for one.

The peacocks would bother me as I've been attacked by large birds (swans, geese, peacocks) too many times. *shudder* It sounds absolutely beautiful, however.

Oh, man, watering once a month? I couldn't do that.

YAY! You should!

I've never been roused by a large bird so they seem pretty to me, I'll keep my eye on them though.

Ya, the aloe's kept getting root rot, they would just slowly die. Now I have one that's 3 or 4 yrs old and a couple cati that are doing well also. I read somewhere that they only grow in times of drout, so it's a good idea to let the soil dry completly in beetween waterings.

I think at last count I had upwards of 35 house plants in all.

Yes, you might want to watch out. I had to get stitches when I was wee from a terroristic goose.

I have aloe, but I water it a lot. I have almost all of my house plants in pea gravel or lava rock because I like to water. Didn't know that, but it would certainly make sense. I will have to try some again...eventually, when I'm brave enough.

That's quite a many. I'm mean, my 40~ 'chids are thrown outside in the baking heat during the summer; and, as it's summer 8 months out of the year, they're outside a lot. I put them in the spare bedroom in baths during the winter. My seven gessies are inside all of the time.

I just brought my 10 or so plants in that were outside this morning, I had been meaning to do it for a week now and kept putting it off. Sure enough this morning I woke up to frost. A few years back I lost about 15 plants I had left out too long. I think I got these in time.

8 months of summer, ouch, I enjoy our long spring and fall more than the summer. Winter lasts about 5 months here, that sucks!

Happy friday

Oh, dear, are they alright? I only have a few that I leave out during the winter because they need a cool rest, but I bring them into the garage at night to avoid that. It's a menace, but one does what one must do. Eeek, I would be rather upset about that.

I have family in Ohio so I know how that goes. I'm a winter girl and wish we would get snow sometime. Something about 110F weather for so long is tiring.

Happy...Saturday?

I got them all in before they were damaged, it's been really cold at night here. I hauled 3 truck loads of wood over the weekend, I still need 2 more to make it through the winter.

I can't stand temps above 80F. They say san fran stays at 65F year round, maybe I'll start savin my pennies.

That's something at least. We have gas logs, but it doesn't really get cold enough here to warrant a woodstove or furnace in the house. I would hate to clean out your fireplace.

Too many people in San Francisco. Lots of 'em and I'm antisocial. Maybe you could move the city and put a huge farm there instead...

Think if I asked them real nice: *"If you don't mind I rather be here alone, so, move along now"*
Can you imagine the response, they'ed put me in an institution for sure. Ahh it would be nice though. I saw a promotion where someone is giving away an island, that would be cool. I'm quite unsocial myself, I play nice and maintain a few friendships, but, sometimes it's all to tempting to just go total recluse without warning or expilnation.


IT's beer thursday!

Hehehe, ask the mayor to pack up and haul out! That'd make the news, surely. As long as I have a computer, I can maintain a level of contact with the outside world that is more than satisfactory for me. A few friends are more than enough for me as long as I have my dogs and my plants. I did my city time (^nth) and my family has migrated to the middle of nowhere where four people control five hundred acres of land. We don't talk to each other often, and life is happy and merry!

I'm too little to drink, but it IS Fan-freakin'-tastic Day, so Happy Fan-freakin'-tastic Day!

I'm thinking I read your a single mom. I am as well; I have 2 boys ages 3 and 7, and I'm only 24, so I have a pretty good idea what your goin through. It's great that your still going to school, I can't wait till I'm able to back to school. Me and the three ring circus I run do all rite despite major obsticals, so it's is possible to survive the odds.(and statisics)

No, I'm seventeen and the head zookeeper. My dad is being shipped all over the country at the moment for work, my mom is medicated for behavioral problems, so I have to moniter her, go to school, keep the little brother in line, and don't get me started on the pets! I'm highly impressed, however, that you have managed to stay sane raising two little boys! I'm very far from being that patient.

Hum, that's odd. I wonder where I got that impression,,tupid imagination. Eather way it sounds like you've got your hands full.
I've been thinking about medicating myself, dose it seem to be working for your mom? I'm thinking of it as a temporrary fix untill my situation improves.

Burrr! My fire burned out at 3am, I woke up at 6 freezin my hinny off. I should start planing my invasion of san fran.

Haha, and I would be a bit odd, meself.

It works for my mum, but it took years to get her balanced correctly. If you can do without medication, I would advise against getting put on any.

Oooh, that sounds...cold. Today, I spent three hours outside in pantyhose and skirt for a dogshow and I swear my toes turned blue! Please do. When you get plans settled, let me know!