The same Zamioculca that flowered two years ago is now blooming again. This time it has two flowers. I didn't notice the first one until I saw the second one and took a closer look on the Zamioculca.

The "old" flower.

The "new" flower.

Today I removed all the sub-categories under "Plant, Garden" and "Plant, House" and added new tags to the posts that belonged to them. Felt the sub-categories started to become to numerous and would one day become two very long lists.

I haven't posted any pictures of my Kalanchoe cutting for a very long time. It has really grown a lot, I'm amazed by how fast it grow to its current size. To bad I think I'll need to cut it down. It is really just a matter of time before the whole plant tips over.

A lot of stuff has happen since the last update. I have replanted many flowers and have started to cultivate many more new flowers.

A few French marigold have been placed in their final locations. Here is a picture on two of them.

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Everything is growing well. The decision to stop using pelt pieces and use loose soil in milk carton instead seems to be right. I have hardly been needed to look after the plants. The soil have been keeping itself moist for long periods of time.

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The project is in full swing. I have started to cultivate four more flowers, French Marigolds, Moonflowers, Sensitive Plant and Scarlet Sage. Two flowers I tried before and two new ones. The Sensitive Plant is more of a indoors plant, so I will keep some of them indoors and some on the balcony. The Scarlet Sage is a gamble. It's not suppose to be on a balcony with strong sun, but maybe it will survive if I place it on the ground in the shade.

I started with putting all the seed on moist tissue paper and sealing them in plastic boxes.

Within a week the French Marigolds started to grow, so I quickly move them over to soil. I also noted that a few of the Sensitive Plant and Scarlet Sage seeds had sprouted very thin white roots (or had started to mold), so I moved a couple of the seeds over to soil. I did it because I feared that if I moved them later I would just damage their roots (or they all would become attacked by mold).

The Moonflowers are late starters (as usual) and are still in their plastic bin.

I just wanted to quickly say that this winter I have lost four of my plants. My two Poinsettias and two Benjamin's Figs. As usually not sure why, but it is probably my fault somehow. I'll probably not buy a new Poinsettia until next Christmas, but a new Benjamin's Fig I will buy as soon as I find a new potential bonsai.

After I replanted the Dumb Cane, replanted my Dwarf Umbrella Tree in the Dumb Cane's old pot and moved it from the kitchen to the bedroom.

Some months ago I started to find the stems of my Dumb Cane falling over one by one. For some reason the stems had lost all their roots. I picked them up and placed them in cups of water, hoping that they would grow new roots. After a few weeks some the stems had healthy roots growing out of them. I took two of the stems with roots and replanted them in a pot. I'm not sure why the stems lost their roots, but I do know that the stems looked better than ever after a few weeks in water. So I'm guessing that I need to make sure the soil is constantly moist to make sure the stems never loses their roots again.

My little Poinsettia potensai was growing all wrong, so I cut it down. It has now gone from a small plant to a mini plant.

My Hydrangea hasn't been properly introduced. I have mentioned it in an earlier post, but I feel that it needs to be introduced properly with a few photos I have taken on it during the year.

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These two plants are two cuttings I have cultivate for some time. It's a Benjamin's Fig and a Poinsettia. I haven't bother to mention these plants before for two reasons. One is that I was afraid that the Benjamin's Fig would die on me at any moment, and the other is that I didn't know it I would keep the Poinsettia or not. But the Benjamin's Fig is doing great and the Poinsettia will replace another cutting that died a while ago. I going to treat both as potential bonsais.

I have once again failed in caring for a Benjamin's Fig. I'm annoyed and disappointed in myself for letting this one wither as much as I did. It is still alive sand I might, given time, restore it to something that looks good (that is, if I don't fail again).

Two house plants died on me during the summer.

My Parlour Palm has more or less been slowly dying under my care. I had difficulty giving it the right amount of water. It always looked like I gave it to much water or to little.

This is the Poinsettia I received as a house warming gift. It started to look pale and I tried to combat it by giving the plant some fertilizer. But after some time I saw that the fertilizer didn't do anything and I thought that replanting it might make it regain its colors. But when I took the Poinsettia out of its pot, I saw that its roots had almost completely rotten away. I hoped it would recover after the replanting, but sadly it didn't.

I small consolation is that I managed to get a cutting from it before it died. I plan on introducing that plant in an another post.

Both the rose plant that I received as a birthday gift and a dear old cutting has been thrown out.

I threw out the rose plant because I one day saw it cover with small mites. Obviously I didn't want any mites in my apartment so it was quickly thrown out.

The cutting was thrown out because it died after I failed the keep it's cup filled with water. I really liked that cutting and thinks it sad that I couldn't take care of it properly.

I tried giving it some water to see if I could revive it, but the water did nothing.