House Plants: Advice, Pics, Sell and Trade

I want to grow lavender in a pot at home. I’ve bought seeds a couple of times and they get two or three inches tall, then seem to wither and dry away to death. Not lacking water. But not drowning in it either. Watering about as much as the nearby succulents, which are thriving. What am I doing wrong?

I love the smell. I must be a grandmother in a middle-aged man’s body.

i took lavender cuttings this autumn 2 or 3 have taken you could have one if you want

Lavender is really hard to grow indoors in the UK. We've tried a couple of times and failed at the same stage as you.
Key seems to be sunlight rather than water. Lavender is a Mediterranean plant so needs as much sunlight as you can give it, breeze, and well drained soil.

Thanks both. I may be on to a loser, then - but I’ll gratefully try a cutting if that’s ok?

Do you have a garden? Grow it outside, let it get big and happy, have cut and dried lavender in the house year round. Or at least a little one on your windowsill.

I've got Christmas cacti coming out the razoo. They're in flower at the moment. Anyone want some? Also many baby jade plants. Were taken as leaves from my mum's garden in NZ in 2013. She was extremely proud of her garden and would be stoked to know that the plant lives on.

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Where are you based?

SE6 :)

Proud owner of a rather big snake plant since this afternoon!

Anyone out there have a Gynura Aurantiaca and who would be willing to send me a cutting? I had one years ago at work and forgot to bring him home when I left. Never seen one for sale.

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Was a bit indecisive in that plant shop, friendly japanese shop owner decided it would be a good idea to push me a bit towards purchasing the bigger / expensiver plant, pointed at that little rhizome you see next to the rim on the right and asserted with a proud tone in his voice that "there's coming even more"
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I'm propagating succulents in my kitchen this winter. Anyone for a swap? I'm particularly interested in a Mother of Millions.

Succulent swap was suggested upthread but spawned little interest I think..

I just bought a couple of Venus fly traps from ikea, rode home and managed to flip the pots and end up with them covered in soil with all the traps shut.
Have repotted and cleaned them as well as I can.
Will they recover?

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Good luck.
In the meantime you could aquire a lot of rainwater and shower them with it, also put them in trivets with high rims and fill those with rainwater as well.

Rainwater shower complete.
I have growbag tray on the balcony full of rainwater. Stand them in there you reckon?
They were an impulse purchase to keep the fungus gnats from the seed trays in check. Wasn’t expecting them to turn into a project in their own right!

I've just done the same ( bought 2 Venus fly traps on impulse - but not from Ikea twas the Nunhead Gardener ).
I have never had any success withe the Dionaea muscipula in the past so going to make an effort this time - starting here - https://www.carnivorousplants.co.uk/resources/venus-flytrap-complete-guide/
https://www.carnivorousplants.org/grow/guides/Dionaea

yeah rain water

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Great, thanks for the guide, def need that..
I’m mostly gutted as I spent ages sifting thru in ikea looking for the most ‘alert’ looking specimens, they came in special plastic carriers but despite being a completely flat ride home in a level basket they still managed to flip the pots wishin the carriers.
Now sat in rainwater under light. All traps still closed tho.

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I thought it was quite small but well stocked :)

We have acquired a few Boston ferns, a tree, some outdoor plants and several Xmas trees from them.

I also have a problem with fungus gnats/fruit flies so I thought a VFT might help control them - at the moment I've got this sort of thing -

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As it is sunny out there this morning I've put them outside but there is not a lot of fly action about.
Ordered some dried blood worms.

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Been ages since I got a one of those - I mean you gotta love them, they're just so cool though. Good luck with yours!

I have one of these now; first weeks it got kind of dry-ish and I though it was a waste of money already, yet I put it on a somewhat sunny windowsill (plus radiator below still on a bit) and really drowned it and the plant seems to love it (all the big light green goblets (?) you see there are freshly grown in the last 2 weeks)

I don't know if it has been mentioned before but your pictures don't show up ?