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The plant in question is a bulbil of Furcraea parmentieri. I had grabbed a few (quite a few) of the lawn outside the SF Botanical Garden. I stuffed a bunch into pockets, and missed one, when my clothes went through the wash, set on "hot". Immediately out of the washer: I potted it up in a...

I decided to get a Darlingtonia californica today at the SF Botanical Garden (aka Strybing Arboretum), partly was because they were selling really nice plants at a good price. A friend who volunteers at SFBG also told me that when he bought one he was told to avoid too much sun (he lives in...

Epiphyllum hybrid, mother plant of the recent giveaway:

OK here's Fred with another wort. I have a couple of quarter trays with this fern in and can see immediately that it is super easy to identify in the wild. That's once you've knelt down on mud and decided that the mass of green growth isn't grass or reed and your high power loupe hasn't steamed...

The botanical garden that I work for was the recipient of a very generous donation last fall. We received a flowering Drosophyllum last fall, and I have recently collected the seed. I have four packets of 10 seeds each to give away in order to pass on some of that generosity. I will...

Our annual show is coming up this weekend, and it's going to be a great one! Some of the biggest vendors in the US will be there, as well as some incredible plants on display. It's at the Garden Center at Lake Merritt in Oakland, CA on Saturday from noon - 4:00. You can find more information...

I've been wanting one of these for a while now, Hopefully I can keep it alive. I mixed up soil according to the instructions in The Savage Garden of one part each peat, sand, perlite, pumice, and lava rock and topped the pot with more lava rock. Any advice would be appreciated!

In a never-ending quest to make more room in my GH for my CP collection, I'm starting to pare down extras and less desirable (to me, at least) non-CP: 1. Gasteria fuscopunctata - a large plant with lots of babies. Originally from the University of South Florida Botanical Garden in Tampa...

I'm going to be moving my Grass Pink and Egret Flower to a bog garden within the next week, and I can't help but notice that they seem to have been put a bit close to the surface.(I know for sure the grass pink was.) Grass pink. The first leaves look to be forming on top of the spike. Egret...

(Sorry if this is a repeat for a few people. I copied this post verbatim from another forum) Any thoughts on mounting an Aglaomorpha coronans fern? Perhaps the question would do better on a fern oriented forum, but I figured I'd ask, just in case anyone here has experience, or just an...

I'm planning on starting a bog garden for carnivorous plants (mostly Sarracenias) in my yard but I had a few questions before I set it up and start buying plants. Several tutorials I found said to perforate the liner at the bottom and several said to leave it intact. Some tutorials also said to...

Hi all, I've been seeing a lot of begonia talk recently and it had me itching to pick one up. Next thing you know I'm at my local garden store buying perlite and there it is! Marmorata Wish me luck!

This guy grew from seed over the winter in my pygmy tray. Should I leave it there, or move it to a bog garden where it can get a proper dormancy? Also, how would I move it without damaging the pygmies?

So many changes happening in my little garden and i'm a bit concerned. thanks for the input. This Sarracenia has weird bumps on them I am assuming this are from the sun? But i just want to be sure And this is just from the digesting of the insects? What are this white powder-ish looking...

Bomarea "Yellow" (B. caldasii or B. superba???) seedling for highland Nepenthes or? This is an amazing Bomarea which grows at the SF Botanical Garden: The umbels are HUGE. I don't know if anyone has settled on a name. I've heard both a variety of B. caldasii, and also B. superba. This is...

Hi guys, I've had this particular Heliamphora for 3-7 years, but during one or more re-pottings (and a head spinning schedule of full time work/full time school for vet tech and, at 50, "due to the old age" as one of my girlfriend's Italian friend is want to say) I've lost track of what it is...

A chance to let your hometown represent! With all due respect to Randy and all those with more exotic tastes:usa2: My opener, Running Serviceberry, Amelanchier stolonifera in bloom. Flowers have a mild scent that is rose like, or maybe rose light! Take away most of the sweet component in the...

I thought it would be fun if people would provide pictures of some of the interesting tropical fruits they are growing. I'll start with three very different examples. What they have in common is that all are cool growers, originally from high elevations in the Andes. I don't have a...

Last year I decided to transfer many of my Arisaema from pots to the garden. To facilitate drainage I took some wide tubs and cut the bottoms out, sank the bases a couple of inches in the garden soil and top filled, so giving some small raised beds. This is the first of the species to show and...

Hey guys! After quitting the hobby a few years back, my withdrawals finally got the best of me! I finally got the yard in half-decent shape and decided rather than going back to growing nepenthes, I'd try my hand at Sarracenia. I always wanted to make a bog garden, and i figured now is as good...