To grow big Calathea Orbifolia plants, start with a piece from a big plant. Keep them in a humid place and give them bright, indirect sunlight. You can also try using small amounts of plant growth products like Miracle-Gro.
15.01.2024 - 09:53 / ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com / Cathy
I’ll sing you one, O
Green grow the rushes, O
What is your one, O? etc
Having walked past the seriously fragrant Sarcococca confusa several times a day in the last couple of days, I had planned that this would be my starting point. Admiring the glossy green foliage as well as the wispy white flowers, instead of choosing my go-to arum leaves for additional glossy shiny green accent, I chose the lesser known greater woodrush, Luzula sylvatica, an undemanding grass with a neat white edge that seems happy in any condition. Spreading readily, it would make good ground cover, but is very easily removed if or when it needs taking in hand.
At this point I looked no further, with ‘Green grow the rushes, O’ and a vintage green poison bottle immediately jumping into my head. Stuffing the plant material in the bottle not only meant no room for anything else, but also an unfortunately vertical and rigid vase – it smells wonderful though, especially now all the blooms have opened, and the ‘monochrome’ green and white segues conveniently into ‘I’ll sing you one, O’, with the dice to emphasise the singularity of it and perhaps my own singularity too! I challenge you to remember any of the other verses of the song, a traditional English one – I got as far as 5 before my mind became hazy!
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To grow big Calathea Orbifolia plants, start with a piece from a big plant. Keep them in a humid place and give them bright, indirect sunlight. You can also try using small amounts of plant growth products like Miracle-Gro.
Inspired by the lovely pink pussies of Salix gracilistyla ‘Mount Aso’ featured in my last Six on Saturday and a sudden glut of blooms on Viburnum bodnantense ‘Dawn’, creating today’s vase began easily. Selecting stems of the former that wouldn’t detract from the shrub and reaching flowering stems of the latter proved a little challenging, but it was easy enough to choose additional material to complete the contents, with witch hazel H vernalis ‘Amethyst’ and foliage of Pittosporum ‘Tom Thumb’ providing different degrees of pinkness.
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London pride (Saxifraga x urbium) is a low-growing evergreen perennial, a hybrid between Spanish Saxifraga umbrosa and Irish Saxifraga spathularis. Once a great garden favourite, London pride plant is hardy and looks good all year round, forming spreading clumps of leafy rosettes made up of spoon-shaped, fleshy, mid-green leaves. In summer masses of small, pink-flushed white flowers are borne on slender stems of around 30cm in height, lasting for up to three months. London Pride thrives in most soils and situations and is especially useful for shady sites. It’s an undemanding and versatile perennial that has fallen from fashion but is a worthwhile garden plant, being easy to grow, yet not invasive. Called London pride because it flourished on bombed sites in the city during the Second World War, it’s even the subject of a song by playwright and composer Noel Coward, whose song titled ‘London Pride’ was popular at the time.
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The Victoria plum, Prunus domestica ‘Victoria’, is Britain’s best-known plum variety. It produces heavy crops of delicious, egg-shaped fruits, ideal for use in jams and chutneys, as well as eating straight from the tree.
This article has been checked for horticultural accuracy by Oliver Parsons.
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Care for your Nerve Plants effortlessly! Maintain humidity with a humidifier or water tray, and find the right sunlight balance. Feed with diluted liquid fertilizer every 3-4 weeks, prune for bushiness when it's 4-6 inches tall, and enhance CO2 levels occasionally. Amp up leaf vibrancy by using a weak tea solution every 2 months. These simple steps guarantee colorful, bushier, and lush Nerve Plants!