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Cute little bonsai plant I picked up today...
« on: November 29, 2006, 07:55:52 PM »
But I'm not gonna bonsai it...gonna let it grow naturally.
Been wanting this one for a while...
In bud too!

 8)
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Re: Cute little bonsai plant I picked up today...
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2006, 08:53:50 AM »
A very appropriate plant for the season.  Is it one of many hollies?
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Re: Cute little bonsai plant I picked up today...
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2006, 09:03:32 AM »
Cute! It looks kind of like a weeping holly..

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Re: Cute little bonsai plant I picked up today...
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2006, 10:19:28 AM »
Yes, it does look a lot like a holly, but it isn't a true holly.
Hollies are botanically 'Ilex'.

Another plant that looks a LOT like a holly is Osmanthus heterophyllus.

Malphigia has cute little white with pink tinted blossoms that look like individual crepe myrtle flowers.
Mine has quite a few buds coming, and had one bloom but it fell off on the trip home.
When it's in bloom again, I will take pix. 8)
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Re: Cute little bonsai plant I picked up today...
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2006, 10:24:44 AM »
I would love to see it in bloom..
Logees sent me a sale email with a couple of pretty mini orchids. If I weren't in the icebox I might have ordered.

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Re: Cute little bonsai plant I picked up today...
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2006, 01:34:07 PM »
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Re: Cute little bonsai plant I picked up today...
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2006, 02:05:47 PM »
That's beautiful Joyce

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Re: Cute little bonsai plant I picked up today...
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2006, 04:09:15 PM »
That's beautiful Joyce, such a deep green color.  Do you have to worry about drafts bothering your plants sitting by the windows?  Some plants don't seem to care, while others are very sensitive to it.  My room with the big bay window is also the room with the woodburning stove in it and many plants I'd like to try (like orchids) probably wouldn't like it there, too dry and warm I'm afraid.  You have got me wanting to try orchids, but I wonder about the bathroom and the humidity from the shower?   :o  And Esther's got me wanting to try a Christmas cactus again too! ::)
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Re: Cute little bonsai plant I picked up today...
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2006, 05:56:40 PM »
It's lovely and it looks bonsai'd enough already . . . . it will look terrific in bloom too.  Never heard of it before, but then there are a lotta plants I haven't heard of yet!

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Re: Cute little bonsai plant I picked up today...
« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2006, 05:34:53 AM »
Thanks everyone! :)

Luanne...I do have TONS of dust and cat hairs. Everywhere. :o
But I do have a cleaning lady who comes every 2 weeks.
Her project last week was to clean all the ceiling fans,
cuz they were starting to 'throw' off dust bunnies the size of squirrels.

And those dust bunnies hit the floor running,
and I swear sometimes they nip me on the ankles. ;)
I am a terrible house cleaner, HATE to do it.
Hubby says I was royalty in my previous lives, that's why. ;) ::) :-)~

I don't advise orchids in the bathroom, unless you have a ceiling fan in there and keep it on low all the time.
Orchids LOVE humidity, but they also love bright light* and air movement.
A simple vent fan in the ceiling wont do. The air needs to 'blow' around,
not simply be sucked upward. And most bathrooms I have see, do not have sufficient light.
Not only that, bathrooms are only humid during and right after someone takes a shower.
Within an hour or two, the humidity is low again.

*Lots of people would disagree, but lots of people take plants tags to the extreme, think low light means no light.
If you can't read comfortably in the room without the light on, there is not enough light to grow an orchid, yet alone any plant.
There are PLENTY of orchids that will grow in normal household humidity on a bright windowsill.
Any room that has a lot of light and a lot of air circulation (ceiling fan on low blowing down) will be good for most dendrobiums.
Why do orchids need so much air circulation?
Think about their natural habitat...most orchids grow in trees, attached to the bark and branches by their roots only.
No soil, no bark chips. Maybe some moss and some built up decayed leaves and twigs in the crooks of the trunk and branches. Up in the trees, the air moves freely, if not a bit windy. The roots NEVER sit in moist dark areas with no air or light.

You gotta make those orchids feel like they are 'home'...but not in a house.
And each ochid comes from all different parts of the world, all different climates,
so there is at least one type of orchi you can grow. 8)
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Re: Cute little bonsai plant I picked up today...
« Reply #10 on: December 01, 2006, 06:16:08 PM »
Thanks Joyce...I'll have to do some searching to find the right orchid for me.  I'll try googling and see what I come up with. My bathroom is very large, and will have a ceiling fan (although I haven't told DH yet, will wait until after Christmas after I've torn out the dropped ceiling {:-P;;)  but I think I'd like to find a better spot.  How do you keep your cats from chewing the leaves on everything?  I have one cat that has to try everything, but finally settles on grass shaped leaves like palms, etc. because I suppose they resemble grass and he doesn't end up throwing those up on my new rug.   &-)  He does leave my cacti alone though lol

Funny about your ceiling fan squirrels, the cats are always coming out from underneath stuff with bunnies stuck to their whiskers and always when we have guests.. ?)(?  I'd rather be doing ANYTHING else than cleaning, although I love the results.  I don't think I'd be able to convince DH that I deserve a cleaning lady, and you know, thinking about it...I may have been royalty too somewhere along the line  ::)  AND today I ruined a favorite shirt of mine cuz I got soft scrub with bleach on it bending into the bathtub.. {nono} RATS....

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Re: Cute little bonsai plant I picked up today...
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2006, 03:45:50 PM »
Joyce, that's one adorable little plant! I have an osmanthus outside and it's one of my very favorite plants. Of course, I love anything variegated.

I remember as a kid trying to grow ferns and baby's tears in bathrooms with no light. What a disaster!! I have a conference room at one of my client's where I walked in one day and swore someone had stolen the dracaena until I turned on the light - it's that dark. Needless to say, the plants in there are dying a not-so-slow death. A good place for silk plants if ever there was one!

About 4 years ago, we hired a cleaning lady. It's worth every penny, even though she makes nearly as much as I do! It's so nice to come home from work every two weeks to a clean house, and it's the only way to motivate my family to clean up their piles of junk occasionally (they won't do it for me, but they will for her because SHE gets paid!)
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