you want to review answers to your questions or someone else’s? You can try searching all journals by some key word. For instance if i click on the journals box and then type aphids into the search window I get all journals that have put aphids as a tag.

Whoa there, I must say that the way you are asking surely isn’t going to provide you with the nice, informative answers you’re looking for.

Why not look at your “latest activity” panel, and in the panel click the number in front of “group posts”. This link will take you to all of the group posts that have updated since you’ve been gone, in addition to all made previously. They are in order of when a new post is added, and will be repeated in the list every time an answer is made. There are pages, and pages. It will show only the groups your in.
Also, if you make comments to journals. when looking at the latest activities panel, click that title, and then click the link that says “comments I’ve made” it will tell you the number of responses since you posted.

EDIT: all i wanted was to find and grow a pretty, highly fragrant, easily maintainable flower indoors. that was just too HARD for anyone.

look, i asked something very simple, for something very clear and specific; if someone doesn’t have the answer, then just don’t reply, and we both can be happy.

http://myfolia.com/activities?filter_by=groups has all the posts which is far from helpful, especially since im in like all the “groups” and my posts were from a long while ago.

i once asked certain gardening questions on http://myfolia.com/questions over a year ago but you can’t even “bump” up your questions, and for the ones that had answers, people simply didn’t address the pretty simple questions that are easy for EXPERIENCED and PASSIONATE gardeners, which i am not, so i just deleted the stuff in the journals.

anyway, this is ridiculous they would have “Topic Watchers” without a watchlist page or something related, so im just going to search my username:

http://myfolia.com/journals/search?query=rm2dance
http://myfolia.com/groups/search?query=rm2dance

oh look, you can’t even search in groups to find your threads/posts because they programmed it to search the text in the posts only and not the usernames!!!!

now i have to go through the trouble of the “latest activity” panel. great!

all i wanted was to find and grow a pretty highly fragrant indoors. that was just too HARD for anyone. and then other people make the progress (you know, like those leading people in society, philanthropers, helpful things — > ocw.mit.edu, howtomakeuphair.wikia.com, etc.) that 1,000 other people LIKE SOME PEOPLE could not do after 10 years. that’s just how it is. that’s the facts. because some people improve to become quality, they create helpful things, and others ??

and guess WHO created that wiki and did everything! AND the “helpful resources section” i don’t know, must be someone selfless, who knows, but at least that person did SOMETHING. if i can’t find any good solutions after i review those threads another day, im forever done with the gardening community and gardening in general. they don’t do anything productive, really. that’s the honest truth. goodbye~

Sorry to break the unfortunate truth to ya rm2dance, but believe it or not, it actually is extremely HARD to find a plant that fits all the specs in your question. I know, because Ive also been looking for a plant that meets those specifications myself. For 21 years. Have not found it yet!

In all my 21 yrs of avid flower gardening and flower arranging, visiting botanical gardens and greenhouses, and talking to botanists in search of such an ideal plant, I have never yet found any such thing as a “pretty, highly fragrant, easily maintainable flower for indoors.”

Im not pulling your leg, I just dont think any such plant actually exists. There are plenty of plants that meet all but 1 of your requirements though!

There are several pretty, highly fragrant, easily maintainable flowers- for outdoors such as lilacs, scented stocks, sweet peas, lavenders, brugmansias, certain jasmines, certain easy care roses, acidantheras, some types of fragrant violets, fragrant rain lilies, oriental scented lilies like Stargazer, tuberoses, freesias, etc.

There are some pretty, highly fragrant flowers that do ok indoors but which arent easily maintainable – such as fragrant orchids, gardenias, certain potted plumerias, certain jasmines, and fragrant orchid cacti (night blooming cereus, aka epiphyllum). A few, very rare and hard to get, fragrant varieties of heirloom Amaryllis also exist that can be grown indoors with only moderate care- but what makes them high maintenance is finding one for sale at a decent price… good luck actually getting a hold of one of those treasures; they are worth hundreds of dollars apeice and most who have them are not willing to sell.

There are some pretty, easily maintainable flowers that do well indoors in bright light (such as african violets, impatiens, and christmas cactus!)- but which have no fragrance.
Part of the problem is that just as Tralamander says below- Really, no flowering plants are well adapted to live indoors for long periods of time. Some rainforest understory plants that handle lower light levels such as African violets are exceptions to this, but even they may need supplemental lighting.

If you ever do find the amazing, fragrant, easy care, indoor plant u are looking for, please let me know. Then Id grow it, and finally end my 21+ year search! :)

Before trying a gardenia you must read this thread on gardenweb!
http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/calif/2004035908004767.html

Or maybe even if you have no intention of growing a gardenia.

This is the funniest thread I have ever encountered on a gardening site.

“Gardenias like wet/dry, acidic/alkaline soil. They like sun, but only in shade; and shade, but only in sun. North/southern exposure (if you can’t manage that, try east/western). They like to be dry misted, to be fed yet not, and adore the sound of one hand clapping.”

I agree that the easiest, most sustainable houseplants are not fragrant. I think if you are not an avid gardener, the way to have pretty, fragrant, easily maintainable flowers for indoors is to go to a garden center, purchase whatever strikes your fancy (freesia ?, gardenia? miniature rose?), and is budding or blooming, try and keep it happy, but when it stops blooming and starts to look bad, as is typical after several months if not cared for perfectly, throw it out and go buy another plant.

PaulP I followed this thread just for the purpose of finding out exactly what watching a thread means! It has a text stating such when you follow. Thanks for the confirmation, though!