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Good morning my lovely #TheWateringHole loves. 🥱 It is ea...

Good morning my lovely #TheWateringHole loves. 🥱 It is early here on the west coast 🌊☀️ And I need to rush off to work, but I figured I would at least start a post this morning for anyone feeling chatty. 👥🗣️🌿 I know I sure am, and it’s not just because I don’t want to go to work, but I also don’t want to go work in 91° 🥵 I just melt. (Our work “AC” is more like a suggestion @princesspitstop 😉 ) plus I might be serving outside. 🫣

Wish me luck and no melting and hopefully I can be done soon to get back to business: PLANTS 🌱🌿🪴 ☺️

Tell me what’s going on today in your world?
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Good morning @DreamMachine and #TheWateringHole gang ☀️ and greetings from Paso Robles. On day 5 of a horse show. I can sympathize regarding heat with you Nadia as it’s been in the 90’s here all week plus 🌬️ windy!! 🥵 💨!! Heading home 🏡 tomorrow where a couple dozen plants will be awaiting their 💦 and attention 👀 🪴. Snapped a pic of my Copper Queen before I left 📸. I love how her flowers change color during the duration of the bloom. ❤️🧡💛 Pic 1 is now, pic 2 was on May 24th.
Hope everyone is having a lovely Sunday!! 🌞🌸🌻💚
#TheWateringHole @DreamMachine Good Sunday Morning, everyone! 🌞😎 A windy 🌬️ and later on rainy ☔️ day here in New Mexico! I have been ordering up plants a lot, before the heat 🥵 sets in come next month! My favorite Plant Nursery is Gabriella Plants, which they resides in Florida. So here are a few of my beautiful plants from them. My Pencil ✏️ Stick Cactus, Red Bamboo Plant, with undertones of red on its 🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃, and also my Ginny Peperomia!! Everyone have a relaxing Sunday on purpose with purpose! 😉
@DreamMachine @MariansOasis I definitely know about the heat, living in New Mexico! It’s a dry heat, totally different from New York City’s heat 🥵! Beautiful Plant Oasis from the both of you, Ladies! The bright vibrant colors, plus the care put into them, definitely shows it from you both!! 😍🙌🤩
Stay cool Nadia! @DreamMachine 🥵

You too @MariansOasis, and oh my goodness, the color change in those blooms is perfection 😚
@SweetAzurebluet I love your Red Bamboo plant, so so pretty! 🤩

The hubby and I are focused on BERRIES today as we plant up our strawberry tower, reinforce our raspberry supports, and get both of these hooked up to the sprinkler system to be ready for the heat that’s surely on its way ☀️

I’ll post pics later! Should probably get out of bed I guess…😂
@DreamMachine

Gorgeous babies! 😍

Stay cool... 😎

Don't work too hard .
@debbiedo Thanks much, my dear! That sounds exciting, homegrown fruits anytime you want! 🙌😋 Can’t wait to 👀 the setup! It’s Sunday, a great day to relax! 😉
#TheWateringHole Good morning everyone!☀️ It's a very hot day here in New Jersey with a high of 84°!🔥
Wish it was in the 90’s here… afraid we’re in for 100+ until October 🥺
I haven’t posted in ages but quietly going about my plant chores and trying to resist adding more plants since I’ve officially run out of space. Instead I’m loving all the new growth. 🥰
A few more… love this time of year!!
@DreamMachine I'm so sorry about the heat. I pray a cool breeze follows you wherever you wander today. 🍃 Good morning everyone 🌞 @CutePolypremum @debbiedo @MariansOasis @SweetAzurebluet It's been so humid here in Texas 🥵 I'm miserable but the plants are LOVING it! 🥰 Let's see if my pictures will be in order...
Paul the Prayer 🙏 Plant is in bloom ❤️
Penny the Calathea or is it a Maranta? Has a couple of new leaves ☺️
The Monstera are especially loving it outside with Big Momma's new leaf and one about to unfurl in the back there. Olivia the Xanadu Philo has a new leaf as well. And lastly is my Chinese Evergreen. We're expecting more rain this week due to a Tropical storm/depression out in the Gulf. I don't think wind will be an issue just a lot of water. I've already got my rain buckets out and ready! 🥰 I hope everyone has a wonderful day!!
@SweetAzurebluet I love your pencil cactus! 😍 I've also never seen a Red Bamboo plant before! I love the look of it! Have a great day on purpose as well sweet Harriet! ☺️
@debbiedo Ohhh Berries! How fun! We had an enormous blackberry bush when our son was little. Strawberries too. He loved to go outside and pick berries for me to make a cobbler with. He'd eat more than he brought back to me 😂
@MariansOasis How beautiful! I love those colors 😍 Is that an Orchid?? Have a safe trip home!
@princesspitstop What an array of gorgeous plants. That humidity is doing your plants justice! 🙌 By all means, gather up all that rain 🌧️ water, so they can continue to be as beautiful, healthy and lush full! 😍🙌 Have a great relaxing Sunday on purpose with purpose! 😉
@SweetAzurebluet 💚🪴🫶
@izzyandsugar Good Morning/ Afternoon! That heatwave 🥵 is everywhere! Have a 🆒 and relaxing Sunday! 😉
@princesspitstop Thanks much, my dear! 😍 The Red Bamboo is a rare plant! Not too many videos about them. But, there are so many varieties! 😉
@Forbes57 We must have been Plant Sisters! The beautiful Plant Oasis, you have photographed, I have them too! I must say” We both have great taste in Plants!” 🙌 Have a great Sunday on purpose! 😉
@MariansOasis Your Copper Queens looks fascinating! Oh Paso Robles, every time I hear it I think of Flamenco? Even though I know it has nothing to do with dancing, but more with Oak trees! I hope you had fun at the horse show! Enjoy the rest of your Sunday as well!
Hey everyone. Apparently I'm the heatwave outlier over here. What a few thousand miles can do... it's been raining cats and dogs for several days in a row. I kind of love it, because it Viola everything down, the soil needs it desperately, and didn't have any important appointments outside anyway rn. And next week it's our turn for another heatwave anyway. Love the abundance of prey plants (mainly, of course the orchids and hoyas, you know me, I'm biased).
I myself treated myself by moving the bella to a very decorative spot in the living room - just so I can see it more while it's this gorgeous. It's a bit too dark for it there to stay there for longer, but somehow it seems so much like the perfect spot that I'm considering adding another light just so that it can stay there. I hope you all manage to stay cool, have a great Sunday. 🫶
@princesspitstop WOW your plants look absolutely stunning all those different shades of green so vibrant and healthy looking! One plant more luscious than the next 🤩🤩😍😍🤩
@Ms.Persnickety Awe thanks Monika 🥰
👋🏻 I’m taking a break from work for a week to relax and work on my outside garden. I’ve got some new carnation and geranium arrivals to get potted as well as an ice plant and a pink jasmine. It’s been extremely hot in CA so I’m working early mornings and at dusk.
@DreamMachine oh girl, I feel for ya! I've become less and less tolerant of heat in recent years (thanks perimenopause!). Thinking back to some of my hottest serving jobs, the worst had to be when I served in the dining room of an 80 year old lodge wearing a FULL tuxedo in the dead of summer 😱🥵 Because who doesn't want their server schvitzing all over them while they eat? 😜

By the way, your philo Brasil is lovely, but it's the Nanouk & zebrina in the background that really caught my eye 👀 Nanouks are usually super susceptible to brown spots, but yours looks 🔥🤌 Do you bottom water? Soon as I started bottom watering mine, no more brown spots 😅

Speaking of tradescantia, several of mine are in bloom—two for the first time ever! First timers are my zebrina Quadricolor & Calllisia gentlei var. elegans both surprised me with a single flower yesterday. My zebrina Pink Paradise and T. mundula Lisa are in full bloom 🌸
@SweetAzurebluet WOW! I’ve never actually heard of a pencil cactus, 🌵 though I’m sure 👍 I’ve seen one 1️⃣ before! Yours is just gorgeous!
@maci.in.bloom Thanks much, I just got him, 2 days ago.
@stephongreg Your Tradescantias are beautiful, 😍 and I love the vibrant colors! I had one once, but it never bloom.
@Shells_Garden oh my, they are simply gorgeous!! 😍 Your garden is beautiful! 😍
@MariansOasis oooh wow Marian!! I have a vague memory of saying one of your plants looked like a peach…or was it a sunset? Or a peach sunset? Anyhoo, I hope it was about this orchid because that is all I can think!! SO beautiful 🤩🤩
@SweetAzurebluet oh my goodness, that red bamboo is amazing 🤩 I’ve been on a “moody/goth” plant kick, and that one is lovely. It’s like a sculpture! I hope you’ve been having a lovely Sunday on purpose with purpose dear Harriet 🥰
@debbiedo @CutePolypremum @princesspitstop I think Heidi’s cool breeze worked! I barely broke into a sweat AND got off work early 🥰🥰 I am on my fourth quart of Gatorade though… 🤣🤣

And Debbie, berries sound lovely! I got home, noticed my strawberries were wilting, and my husband came out with a jug of water for them. He read my mind!

Heidi your plants do look like they’re LOVING the humidity 😂 at least someone does!!
@Forbes57 oh my goodness I cannot even fathom 100°+ until October 😱😱 This is actually the first time (or second? 🤔 ) in the 90°’s this year. We spent the last two weeks absolutely pouring rain, so at least there’s that. Your plants look like they’re loving it though! 🥰 That’s a lovely scindapsus 🤩
@MusicalRedmint yes! More grow lights! Your Bella looks like she belongs there, cascading down from the bookshelf 🤩

I will live vicariously through your rain 🌧️ All day, in my head, was ‘I’m Only Happy when it Rains,’ -Garbage, favorite band from high school 😅 It must have worked, I barely sweat today! (Either that or I’m quite dehydrated 🤣)
Looks like we traded weather! We woke up to 49° and overcast today. I hope you survived! Not much going on here except for selling a couple of spider plants on FB and continuing to worry about the hoyas! 😖😂 My neighbor took this picture of compass and Bella and just sent it to me. I thought it was exquisite!
@stephongreg omg That sounds like the WORST. 😆🫣🥵🥵 That takes me back to my last restaurant, fine dining… not full tux, but all in black… wiping tables, and then wiping them *again* because I was dripping sweat 🫠🫠🥵🥵 Luckily my restaurant now is a small, women-owned, neighborhood spot, so we can wear whatever we want!! 😮‍💨🙌🙌

Thank you!! Yes, I bottom water my nanouk. 🤗 He is a fabulous beast, and thirsty as a horse (or something that drinks a LOT of water 😅). He’s in a 6 inch pot and I have to water him every 3-4 days 😳 I also up-potted him relatively recently…I severely underestimated how fast he would fill out that pot 🤦‍♀️😂 From a 2” to a 6”… and I probably could’ve done a 10!! He does have some brown spots, but for the most part they are from before I started bottom watering!

Congrats on the first time blooms 🥹 Yay, they are so cute!! Is the green one the Callisia gentlei var. elegans? I LOVE that one! I’m looking for a green one for my next tradescantia 🥰
@DreamMachine Thanks much, my dear! I love the two tone color 🍃🍃🍃🍃. I also wanted to add a variation of color plant leaves, instead of all green
@MamaLinne oh WOW. What a great shot 😍🤩 You could frame it! 👏 👏 Look at those gorgeous horses 🐎 🐎🥰

Haha, your weather sounds perfect to me! I survived today, 🥵 and now I’m home lying on my grounding mat, drinking my 4th quart of Gatorade, because I am NOT going back out there 😂😂
@DreamMachine Wow!! 👀 at that rainbow 🌈 of colors on your Tradescantias! That deep purple is fantastic! 😉
@DreamMachine yes, I have thoroughly enjoyed the cool couple of days! It will be back in the mid 90s this week. I am definitely framing it! 🥰😍
@Shells_Garden I hope you are staying cool! A week break from work sounds like the perfect thing right now ☺️ So glad you get to relax and work in the garden. Your flowers look beautiful 🤩 and I’m curious about the ice plant 🧊 🤔🤗 Do you know it’s botanical name? I want to look that up!
@SweetAzurebluet oh thank you much my dear! I’m doing kind of the same thing as you with your red bamboo, but opposite, as I’ve got several varieties of pink, purple, burgundy tradescantias, but I’m missing a green one! 🤭😂
@stephongreg also, is this one the T. mundula Lisa? I’m loving the elegant colors on this one 😱
@izzyandsugar good afternoon Isabella! I hope you were able to beat the heat today 🥵 🔥 ☀️
@princesspitstop also look at those bloom spikes on your maranta!! 😱 From the struggle bus to completely THRIVING 🙌 Your calathea beauty star is also looking magnificent 🤩😍
@DreamMachine Struggle Bus 🚌 indeed! 💪😁
@MariansOasis that Copper Queen bloom is gorgeous!!
@princesspitstop Your plants are beautiful!! I didn’t know prayer plants bloomed. That’s something to look forward to when my baby prayer plant grows up (if I don’t kill it first).
@Forbes57 It’s so hard to resist buying new plants! I can go for awhile, then the temptation over whelms me. I have slowed down the pace as space is becoming an issue.
Hello everyone at #TheWateringHole ! Summer has come to Georgia. It has been hot and humid as it usually is in Summer, south of Atlanta. My hubby decided he wanted to go get flowers for the yard this afternoon. We survived the sweat down at the garden centers at our local Walmart and Home Depot. I could write a whole other post about the differences in the care and condition of plants between the different locations of these stores! I prefer the ones in the town where I work. I cleaned up a bird bath yesterday, did a bunch of watering yesterday and today, and repotted my Fairy Washboard Haworthia. Here are some daylily blooms from yesterday and our peace lily bloom on the one received after my dad died in 2013. Today is the 13th anniversary of his death. I’ve been for a walk and now have laundry going. It’s back to work tomorrow.
@princesspitstop hi Heidi! Yes it’s an orchid 👍 One that’s given me a few times of blooming 😊. This is her 3rd time. So sorry to see it’s been hot and humid for you. It’s so draining when it’s both 🥵 and heavy air with humidity 😑. I hope you can keep cool in some a/c. It seems the hot weather has set in at a lot of places 😮‍💨
@princesspitstop btw love your aglaonema and maranta!! 🤩
@Ms.Persnickety hi 👋 thanks so much it was a very good show! I’m not familiar with Flamenco and oak trees? Do tell 😊
And they call this global warming.... I expected that it would still be in like the 70's or 60's out rn
@DreamMachine I’ve never heard of T. Mundula Lisa…I’m in love! 🥰😮
@DreamMachine @CutePolypremum @Forbes57 @MariansOasis @princesspitstop @stephongreg @MamaLinne @Ms.Persnickety @SweetAzurebluet @MusicalRedmint @RefinedSandwort

BERRY UPDATE!:

I’m so excited that we finished our BERRY projects today! ☀️🙌

The raspberries are now contained and the strawberries are tucked away in their “tower”. Wish us luck! 🤞🏻
@SweetAzurebluet thank you Harriet! I've definitely found my "niche" in the plant world lol 😛 I hope you're well!!
@debbiedo right? It’s so pretty! That pic is Steph’s @stephongreg ☺️

Your berries look great! And you’ve got a good amount of raspberries too 🥰 That’s about the size my parents have and made playing “orphaned girls lost in the forest and surviving on foraged berries for sustenance“ a whole lot easier as a child 😅 Keep us updated how the strawberries do!! 🍓
@RefinedSandwort Hi Joy, your flowers are beautiful. I’ve been meaning to get a birdbath soon 🥰

🫂 for today ♥️🦋🌿🌸
@DreamMachine fine dining places are always more likely to make us suffer and sweat 😡 😤 That's great you work somewhere now that prioritizes your comfort and well-being over some stuffy antiquated dress code 😂

I was surprised how fast my Nanouk grew! How much light does yours get? Mine was a rehab plant so looked pretty gnarly when I first got it. I moved it to a long rectangular pot to give it more soil surface (since trads grow sprawling out across the ground, constantly putting down new roots). It also improved airflow since it could spread out more. Initially I had it under grow lights with all my zebrinas but it was a bit too much, now it happily resides on a northeast-facing windowsill.

Yep, the one with the elegant colors is the T. mundula Lisa! And the green one is the Callisia gentlei var. elegans. It's not as fast growing as some other members of the Commelinaceae family, but I'm obsessed with how its leaves feel. They're like an extremely fine-nap suede, that's the closest thing I can compare them to. I have to stop myself from constantly rubbing them, it's very satisfying in an ASMR-type way 😛 Since you're wanting a green variety, there's a member of the same species as Nanouk called Red Hill. Same thick, succulent-like leaves. They're slightly fuzzy, green on top w/ purple undersides. I also have several green & white varieties that put the common "Pistachio" cultivar to shame. One of my favorites is T. fluminensis 'Variegata' (2nd pic), it's one of my fastest growing trads. I'd be happy to send you cuttings of those or any other trads you might want! 🤗

Btw, your zebrina Burgundy is also a beauty! They're probably the most frequent flowerer (that's a word, right?🤷🏻‍♀️) of all my trads. Looks like the one next to it might be a zebrina Evanesce..? Ok, I've yammered on about trads long enough lol 😜 Hope you had a great weekend! ❤️
@DreamMachine Keep it up, your rainbow 🌈 collection of Tradescantias are gorgeous!! 🙌🤩
@RefinedSandwort Your Daylily is beautiful, love the vibrant orange 🍊! Love the Peace Lily in remembrance of your Dad! 🙏🏾
@stephongreg I am being well, buying a few plants, before the heat starts….. which for some already did! 😫🥵
@stephongreg I had the Small Leaf, didn’t do to well with it. But, by 👀 at how beautiful yours are, I will try again! 😉
#TheWateringHole @Preciousplants1 @FitBrowallia Good Morning, Ladies! 🌞 Hope all is well. 😉
@stephongreg oh you are too generous! I liked that first green one but oh my goodness the T. fluminesis variegata is STUNNING 🤩 That’s the one I want to add first 😂 I would love to take you up on that offer, but I need to get these broad mites gone first. I’m getting my cucumeris mites in a couple days 🥳

You know, I have that zebrina in my oasis as a ‘bosse,’ but now that I’m looking again I’m not sure that it is ( 🆔’d by me last year, it didn’t have a tag other than “zebrina.” 🙄)

If anyone knew, I bet it would be you 🥰 Here it is up close.
@SweetAzurebluet We DO like the same things!! Thank you!
@DreamMachine hey Nadia. I just bought it from Etsy. It’s also called a sun rose. It’s a succulent. The leaves are sort of like a Kalanchoe. Here is a photo of the shop ad and the second photo is the plant sent.
@stephongreg , I love when they bloom. It makes me think of a little tiny present when I see the first one. Then as they keep blooming, I smile every time I walk by. 🤷‍♀️😊
@MamaLinne oh your horses 🐴 🐴 🥰🫠. Soooo cute!!
@stephongreg , you infected 😷me with the trads obsession! 😵‍💫 I just keep adding to my wishlist. 😊
@stephongreg oh I forgot to touch on some other points 😂 YES, the burgundy flowers constantly! I love looking over and seeing a new bloom 🥰🌺

A rectangular pot for the nanouk seems like a fantastic idea. I will definitely be doing that next 👌

And my nanouk actually gets LOTS light. You might be able to kind of tell from that pic that he is directly in a corner with an east facing window and a south facing window. But perhaps that’s why he goes through water so quickly 😅
@Forbes57 😂🙌
@debbiedo Congratulations!!
@stephongreg Your Trandescantias are beautiful! It’s amazing they are all in bloom!
@RefinedSandwort I was doing so well… just an occasional grocery store purchase here and there… until today. 🥴 I ordered a wish list plant, a philodendron mayoi, and 2 other “steals” from Palmstreet. Oh dear. 🥺🥹🥰
@Shells_Garden oh thank you 😊 The blooms are so cute!!
@Forbes57 I was doing good, but now I bought one last week and another one yesterday! Time to stop again!
@DreamMachine Thanks for the additional pics! Based on the stress coloring, I'm almost 95% sure it's 'Evanesce'. Are the stems noticeably thicker than your Burgundy? And do both the stems and leaves have scattered hairs? That'll confirm the other 5% lol 😜

Once you've conquered your mite issue and are ready to become a full-fledged Tradescantia addict, just let me know and I'll send cuttings your way 🤗