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🌿 Discover the Perfect Plants for Your Space! 🌿 Explore our handpicked collection of cycads, aloes, seeds, and more to transform your garden or landscape. Shop Now Taxonomy and nomenclature Cycas sundaica, a fascinating member of the ancient cycad lineage, holds a unique place within the plant kingdom. Its classification, like many plants, has a […]
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Hi all! My husband and I have been gardening at our rental for a while but we’re finally looking to buy. For a while we thought we’d buy a home on several acres, but sadly that is no longer possible for us with the market of the last few years.
We found a house we really like on half an acre and figured we could do a food forest, chickens, bees, etc. How much food are you all able to grow on a lot this big?
Lastly, and *most importantly* the property is on septic so it has a drain field. Should this be a no go for us since the house is already on only half an acre? I’m viewing this as wasted space on an already small lot. Wondering if anyone has faced this same problem?
Thank you!
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Last month I visited the Culver City, CA, location of Rolling Greens for the second time, and it was just as fabulous as I remembered (first visit here). It was extra fun actually, since they had their holiday decor up—it felt a lot like a West Coast version of Terrain.
I wandered the indoor area first…
These candle sticks! Oh how I wanted to take them home, at least one (the dark one), preferably three. They were not cheap but the main obstacle was how thin the glass was. I might have gotten away with shipping them (or packing them really well and checking them?). But instead I decided I’d try and find them locally. No success thus far.
This were pretty fantastic too.
And I loved the paper trees. My mom did something vaguely similar once that involved spray paint and folding the pages of a Reader’s Digest magazine.
Naturally there were poinsettia…
And I lusted after that hourglass planter.
I’m outside now, where I admired this table with a planting pocket down the middle.
And a little moss to the side.
I walked the planter aisles…
And admired the view.
As well as the plants, of course.
Another table with a planting…
And more containers.
I don’t think I made it down to the lowest level (house plants) on my last visit, and I was tempted by a few of them. Instead my only purchase was the tote bag I shared in this post.
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In this blog post Frederick Lubbe, postdoc at Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, presents his work ‘New opportunities for grassland species in warming temperate winters’. He talks about the importance of winter for plants, shows how plants cope with winter conditions and shares how he enjoys working in unusual ecological topics. About the paper Climate change is happening everywhere and all …
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🌿 Discover the Perfect Plants for Your Space! 🌿 Explore our handpicked collection of cycads, aloes, seeds, and more to transform your garden or landscape. Shop Now Aloe whitcombei, also known as Whitcombe’s Aloe, stands out even among the diverse world of succulents. This striking Ethiopian native boasts a unique appearance, setting it apart from
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🌿 Discover the Perfect Plants for Your Space! 🌿 Explore our handpicked collection of cycads, aloes, seeds, and more to transform your garden or landscape. Shop Now Taxonomy and Description Ceratozamia microstrobila, a fascinating member of the Mexico cycads, holds a unique place in the plant kingdom. Its name, derived from the Greek words “keras”
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🌿 Discover the Perfect Plants for Your Space! 🌿 Explore our handpicked collection of cycads, aloes, seeds, and more to transform your garden or landscape. Shop Now Discovery and Naming The story of Cycas debaoensis, the Debao Cycad, begins with a serendipitous discovery in the lush, remote landscapes of Guangxi Province, China, in 1996. A
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With the thread about peat moss and alternatives like coconut coir, I got to thinking about the byproducts from things in my own gardening and kitchen. In particular, I’ve got a unique byproduct that I would love to suss out to see if it’s valuable or not, but I’ve got no clue how to actually measure the efficacy of it. I understand that it’s about moisture retention (or lack of), air/space, etc, but I’m curious how others have figured out if something you use is good or not.
The byproduct for me in particular is spent chaga, which has been ground into a coarse grind and steeped for over a day so no more colour is coming out of it. It really intrigues me because I think it might be a super-medium but I don’t know how to tell beyond just growing seeds in it and seeing
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🌿 Discover the Perfect Plants for Your Space! 🌿 Explore our handpicked collection of cycads, aloes, seeds, and more to transform your garden or landscape. Shop Now Identifying Aloe Lateritia Let’s dive into the fascinating world of Aloe lateritia, also known as the Red Aloe. This striking succulent earns its common name from its vibrant
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