House Plants: Advice, Pics, Sell and Trade

they do eat the plant louses though
;-)

Lovely looking plant you have there.

My green calathea is a fussy plant, I am watering twice a week at the moment - it's leaves visibly drop when its thirsty so easy enough to tell. Also likes to be positioned away from a window.

I've noticed a LOT of caterpillars about the garden this summer. I dont mind as long as they turn into preddy lil butterflies however I hope they are not some kind of imported pest from some forrins lands.
I even removed one from our bathroom floor few days back. How did it end up there I have no idea.
I also have box blight in the garden.
Are those two related?

As I nurse a coffee with a mega hangover this morning, I wonder if someone can enlighten me to what this gift is?

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It's a "Dragon Tree" (Dracaena marginata).

Beautiful vase by the way!

Thank you, presumably just a propagated branch, not sure how long it’ll last in that diddy vase with no soil.
Also given a lovely new Acer and an extremely fruitful Crab Apple tree, yay middle age birthdays.

I have a bunch of these clay pebbles - about 3-4 carrier bags full. I need some, but I have loads left. Free, collection SE15. Pm please. Happy to split if multiple folk want some.

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how do you solve a problem like my floppy aloe? :(
it's just so large and tall it keels over, no matter what I do.
should I cut the bottom half of it off and repot?

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Put it on a high shelf and let it grow sideways and droop? Maybe re-pot into a larger pot? I have never seen one keel over so far without it striving to a light source.

I'd cut the lower leaves off, leave the stalk(?) and repot it deeper. Should be able to hold itself up then and keep as many roots as poss

More advanced, but anyone tried a riparium? Basically a tank where you plant species that do well in wet/riverside environments. You can also keep fish in the water bit (but I won't).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45bZ7lplBj0

would this not become very green and stinky very soon?

that's what i was wondering but apparently not...

'occasional water changes'

or rather that's why they suggest putting some fish in?

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who's 'they'?

I'm not at liberty to say, sorry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLEbbvEP23E

I have something similar to this in my bathroom but bigger, it's a glass tank about a meter long, about 20cm high and wide, has plants either side with water in the middle. so its kind of like a slice of a river bank. has peace lily one side and a spider plant the other. various other things have started growing in there too.

I just keep it topped up with water and let it go wild. has been going for a few years now and pretty healthy, despite periods of forgetting to top the water up.

the idea was to have a large wabi kusa set up. but it kind of changed a little.

i'll take a photo when I'm next home in the day light.

that sounds ace. I'd love to see it.

Are there any other fish keeper/aquascapists here? I havent scaped for a long time. Although my main 400l community tank is still running even though there is 7 years of neglect since we had kids etc.

This was at its cleanest looking stage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq5CNbQxHD0

Does anyone have a go-to place or recommendation for largeish indoor plants - monstera (a bit cliche, but I like them), big palms, etc?

Looking to replace a large Kentia palm that died (or Mrs c00ps might have killed).