FunkyJan's journal
Member since: May 11 | Last seen: Nov 12 | Invited by: HomesteadMommy | Years gardening: 18
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26 Apr 2012
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Propagating Some Succulents Today
Rosette Succulent , Peanut Cactus , Sempervivum tectorum 'hens & chicks' , Hens & Chicks , and Container ga...Cloudy 22°C / 72°FI just wanted to share with you all, some of my plants before I butcher them. lol They’re nice and full, but I want many more of these. I love making new, bigger plants from baby plants and sharing them with family & friends. =) Main Pic – Top view of Cobweb Hens & Chicks Pic ...
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18 Apr 2012
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Praying Mantis Eggs Hatched! =D
Jas's Garden & Sunflower Patch garden and Herb gardenSunny 28°C / 82°FThis morning, we woke to a very nice surprise. The praying mantis egg that we kept in a jar indoors hatched! =D You can see all the little baby praying mantises crawling around the inside of the jar. If you look closely in the pic, you can see the little jumping spider watching them lol. It was s...
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17 Apr 2012
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Potted Plants & Not So Good News
Nasturtiums , Euphorbia , and Container gardenSunny 25°C / 77°FI finally got some new pots for some of the succulents I got at my first Cactus and Succulent Society meeting. I also bought some cactus mix for the first time. I know it’s bad, but all these years, I’ve been potting my cactus and succulents in regular potting soil =\…. I know, ...
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09 Apr 2012
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Garden Project: Blue Tomato Cages
Jas's Garden & Sunflower Patch gardenOvercast 23°C / 73°FThe tomatoes seem to be growing fast so we need to put cages on them really soon. We’d seen the different colors of tomato cages in the stores, but they’re so pricey! We have perfectly good tomato cages at home. All they need is some paint. =) We decided on blue because our house is w...
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08 Apr 2012
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We Finally Have a Pond Corner! =D
Cala Lily , Asparagus Fern , Ginger Plant , Veronica Plant , Baby's Tears , Horsetail , Scotch Moss , Irish...Sunny 29°C / 84°FWe didn’t get a chance to work on the Pond Corner much last year after we moved in. All we really did was transplant the Asparagus Fern, the Lily and Lambs Ears plant from Kingsburg and we eventually got the Veronica plant, the Lemongrass, the Ginger and Catmint. This year, we actually got ...
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08 Apr 2012
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Special Cactus from CSS Meeting
Sunny 27°C / 81°FA few days ago, I forgot to mention the special cactus that they introduced to us at my first Fresno Cactus and Succulent Society meeting. There was a man and a few other people from Guadalajara that were visiting the CSS meeting. They talked about this cactus that they were trying to grow and re...
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07 Apr 2012Tarragon , Ancho Chili , Jalapeno , Black Krim , Black Cherry Tomato , Yellow Pear Tomato , Borage , and Ja...
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Sunny 28°C / 82°FJas’s Garden is one of the things we’ll be needing to put back together every year since it’s a tomato garden. In December, I finally got my first greenhouse =D! It’s a mess now, but here I will show you a pic of it before it got messy hehe. It’s tiny, but perfect fo...
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06 Apr 2012Jas's Garden & Sunflower Patch garden
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Cloudy 19°C / 66°FLife got busier and busier after September of last year so I wasn’t able to update my Folia at all… but I did take pictures =D. I thought I’d do a little recap on the happenings from Sept. of 2011 to about when we started working on things again this Spring. =) Main Pic – ...
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05 Apr 2012Container garden , Crassula pubescens , Ruschia sp. , and Lithops lesliei v. hornii
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Sunny 19°C / 66°FJas and I have been tossing around the idea of joining the local Cactus and Succulent Society, but haven’t really done anything about it until last night. I have to say it was really Flowerweaver that did that final motivation that got me to actually find out when the next meeting was. Low ...
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03 Apr 2012
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My Succulents... my lovelies *snickers*
Ponytail Palm , echeveria nadulosa , Peanut Cactus , Crested Echeveria 'Doris Taylor' , Fenestraria Rhopalo...Cloudy 18°C / 64°FNow that I have most of my potted plants entered into myfolia, I thought this would be the perfect time to do an update on the Container Garden this year. =) My collection of succulents has pretty much more than doubled since last year. Most of them are still baby size, but a lot of them have bee...
