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[Monday - Liza's Plants] Spring Blooms, Inside and Out

On the south-facing windowsill in my foyer, I have a container planted with succulents. Three different types, I believe (the Aeonium at the bottom is in a separate container). I don’t remember… more →

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[Monday - Liza's Plants] Spring Blooms, Inside and Out — 6 comments

goodtogrow wrote 2 months ago: On the south-facing windowsill in my foyer, I have a container planted with succulents. Three differ … more →

Tags: [Monday - Liza's Plants], blooming succulents, Good to Grow, new blooms in the house, plum tree blossoms, succulent love, sweet flower in the house

[Monday - Liza's Plants] Ugly Vegetables, Pretty Plants — 4 comments

goodtogrow wrote 2 months ago: The Great Chayote Growing Experiment Update: Of the four new Chayotes I got at the Mexican grocery s … more →

Tags: [Monday - Liza's Plants], Good To Grow, 2013 Vegetable/Herb Gardens, Bougainvillea, Good to Grow, aeonium, Chayote, squash-like veggies, Orchid

[Monday - Liza's Plants] Crazy for Blooms — 6 comments

goodtogrow wrote 2 months ago: It’s a little early for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, but I realized over the weekend that … more →

Tags: [Monday - Liza's Plants], Good to Grow, citrus blossoms, Liza's photos, Schlumbergera blooms, Candy a Lime Tree, flowering houseplants, Bougainvillea bracts, Blooms in the house

[Monday - Liza's Plants] Dottie's Christmas Cactus — 4 comments

goodtogrow wrote 3 months ago: Today’s post is largely for our beloved Expert Dottie, so she can see how the Schlumbergera sh … more →

Tags: [Monday - Liza's Plants], Good to Grow, Liza's photos, schlumbergera, christmas cactus flowers, houseplants that flower, Dottie's Sclumbergera

[Monday - Liza's Plants] Succulent on the Edge — 8 comments

goodtogrow wrote 4 months ago: Oh dear. Turns out, moving my Carruanthus plant was a bad idea. Aaaahhhh! Poor baby! A few months ag … more →

Tags: [Monday - Liza's Plants], Houseplants, Good to Grow, succulent plants, Carruanthus plant, trying to avoid disaster

[Monday - Liza's Plants] Last Minute Christmas Gift Idea — 6 comments

goodtogrow wrote 5 months ago: Hola peppermint stickones, Merry Christmas! Happy Monday! You probably have all your Christmas shopp … more →

Tags: [Monday - Liza's Plants], Nature-Inspired Holiday Gift Ideas, How to Persuade Bulbs To Bloom Indoors, Good to Grow, holiday gift idea, Hyachinth bulbs, how to force bulbs to bloom indoors, persuading bulbs, fresh flowers indoors during winter

[Monday - Liza's Plants] Last Minute Christmas Gift Idea — 6 comments

goodtogrow wrote 5 months ago: Hola peppermint stickones, Merry Christmas! Happy Monday! You probably have all your Christmas shopp … more →

Tags: [Monday - Liza's Plants], Nature-Inspired Holiday Gift Ideas, How to Persuade Bulbs To Bloom Indoors, Good to Grow, holiday gift idea, Hyachinth bulbs, how to force bulbs to bloom indoors, persuading bulbs, fresh flowers indoors during winter

[Tuesday - Flowers and Flowering Plants] Scents in the Foyer — 6 comments

goodtogrow wrote 5 months ago: I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Once they figure out how to transmit scents … more →

Tags: Flowers and Flowering Plants, [Tuesday - Flowers and Flowering Plants], Good to Grow, citrus blossoms, Candy a Lime Tree Is Flowering, Flowering citrus trees, HEAVENLY SCENT, Lime tree blooms, houseplants that flower

[Monday - Liza's Plants] Izzy's Wisdom — 4 comments

goodtogrow wrote 5 months ago: I like to encourage people to take photos of their houseplants, because it’s fun to see how th … more →

Tags: [Monday - Liza's Plants], Good to Grow, succulent houseplants, Kalanchoe rhombopilosa, houseplants that don't need to root, Kalanchoe houseplants, Izzy the houseplant

[Monday - Liza's Plants] Being Dieffenbachia — 7 comments

goodtogrow wrote 5 months ago: A brief update on Danny, a Dieffenbachia who lives in the foyer. Back in October, here, I wrote abou … more →

Tags: [Monday - Liza's Plants], Good to Grow, Dieffenbachia amoena "Tropic Snow", Danny a Dieffenbachia, Dieffencbachia amoena, tropic snow

[Monday - Liza's Plants] My Backdoor Garden — 2 comments

goodtogrow wrote 6 months ago: Because I’m a neatfreak… This crap had to go on a recent warm afternoon. Most of it, any … more →

Tags: [Monday - Liza's Plants], 2012 Vegetable/Herb Gardens, succulents, Good to Grow, Parsley, Container Gardening, Basil, Blanket Flower, Portulaca

[Monday - Liza's Plants] A Fond Farewell — 6 comments

goodtogrow wrote 6 months ago: R.I.P. Rosa the Jade: So sad! Rosa grew up in Indiana, and since then has lived in Maryland, Virgini … more →

Tags: [Monday - Liza's Plants], Good to Grow, mealy bugs, rubbing alcohol, R.I.P. Rosa the Jade, sometimes it's better to throw in the towel, neem oil, ways to combat mealy bugs

[Thursday] November 2012 Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day — 8 comments

goodtogrow wrote 6 months ago: Here in Albuquerque, most of the outdoor flowers got blasted by our first frost a few days ago. Thes … more →

Tags: Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, flowering plants, Bougainvillea, Good to Grow, Real or Fake plant puzzler, Pothos Plant, Wildflowers, Cosmos, schlumbergera

[Monday - Liza's Plants] Spotlight on Stanley — 10 comments

goodtogrow wrote 6 months ago: Stanley, a Kalanchoe luciae, has been kickin’ it on the kitchen windowsill for about six month … more →

Tags: [Monday - Liza's Plants], succulents, Good to Grow, easy houseplants, low maintenance houseplants, kalanchoe luciae, succulent houseplants, good plants for containers

[Monday - Liza's Plants] Spotlight on Hank, a Haworthia — 4 comments

goodtogrow wrote 6 months ago: Ever since the E Sill band broke up, due to Rosa the Jade’s addiction to mealy bugs, I figured … more →

Tags: Meet the Plants!, [Monday - Liza's Plants], succulents, Good to Grow, Hank the Haworthia, easy houseplants, low maintenance houseplants, great indoor plants

[Tuesday - Flowers and Flowering Plants] Schlummin' Around

goodtogrow wrote 7 months ago: I hear a lot of garden bloggers bemoan this time of year, when their outdoor gardens are winding dow … more →

Tags: Flowers and Flowering Plants, [Tuesday - Flowers and Flowering Plants], Christmas Cactus blooms, fresh flowers in da house!, Good to Grow, houseplants that bloom during fall and winter, indoor gardening, indoor houseplants, Schlumbergera blooms

[Monday - Liza's Plants] Breaking News: Flowers Forming in the Foyer — 6 comments

goodtogrow wrote 7 months ago: Hmmm, notice anything unusual about Danny, my Dieffenbachia houseplant? He’s got two flower bu … more →

Tags: [Monday - Liza's Plants], Good to Grow, Dieffenbachia flower buds, Schlumbergera flower buds, Christmas Cactus buds, inflorescence, spadix, spathe, Spathiphyllum flowers

[Monday - Liza's Plants] Bougainvillea in the Morning Light — 2 comments

goodtogrow wrote 7 months ago: Another traveling day, another pretty picture. … more →

Tags: [Monday - Liza's Plants], Good to Grow, morning light, pretty Bougainvillea, Bougainvillea flowers, flowers in the morning light, I'm leaving on a jet plane!

[Monday - Liza's Plants] Sweetie Gets a Haircut — 2 comments

goodtogrow wrote 8 months ago: Yesterday I began my semiannual cleaning of the houseplants. That’s where I take all the foyer … more →

Tags: [Monday - Liza's Plants], Good to Grow, euphorbia milii, Crown of Thorns plant, blooming houseplants, The Euphorbias get haircuts, Sweetie the Euphorbia, how to prune a Crown of Thorns plants, pruning 101


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