I'm in zone 7 and I can't kill them off. One thing I noticed is they start growing where the ground is shaded.But as the grow they reach for the sun.
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I may try them again, just in a different spot. Where I had them offered some shade, but was evening facing.
That was going to be my suggestion: try them in a place where they get morning sun and afternoon shade.
They look like some sort of cross between a lily and a trumpet vine flower.
You can always try posting on The Tortoise Table Forum: https://www.thetortoisetable.org.uk/siteassets/forum/ Lin and Nina are great when it comes to plant identification! Make sure you mention your location since they're in the UK.
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Speaking of banana plants. . . in a quiz I was doing with my grand daughter the question was something about what kind of plant do bananas grow on. Naturally, I answered "tree." WRONG! The banana plant is an herb! Who knew?We're keeping an eye on the area where we planted our banana plant. Hopefully he returns! We had a late frost this (early) spring, so it damaged some of our plants. The branches of the serviceberry may have died, along with my tiny mulberry bush for Steve. Only one branch on the mulberry bush is growing leaves at the moment.
On the plus side, the turtlehead is going well and we have lots of strawberry flowers!
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I've never seen that before, but it's pretty, huh?
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I just tried to post but i cant figure out how to upload pics from my phone. I cant even get into most of the topicsThat was going to be my suggestion: try them in a place where they get morning sun and afternoon shade.
They look like some sort of cross between a lily and a trumpet vine flower.
Everything is waking up here and most all survived the past harsh winter. Here's a pic of a spineless cactus taken a while back, 
and a pic taken today.
The bananas are elephant ears are doing much better than I expected.
I did a quick count of the bananas and have over 100 breaking ground already. I lost a few cactus plants but most are doing great and full new pads and fruit, Walkers Happy he loves the new growth pads and green fruits.
and a pic taken today. The bananas are elephant ears are doing much better than I expected. I did a quick count of the bananas and have over 100 breaking ground already. I lost a few cactus plants but most are doing great and full new pads and fruit, Walkers Happy he loves the new growth pads and green fruits.
There's a couple ways I do it. When moving a larger plant I dig it up with a shovel leaving what dirt that will stay attached to the root base be. Depending on how large the plant is I either leave it on the shovel and move it to where I want it or pick it up by the roots (which have no spines) and move it that way. If you must touch the pads you can use several layers of newspaper(i use the weekly fliers from the grocery stores since I no longer subscribe to a paper). On smaller plants I use hotdog tongs, I have several different sizes and shapes of tongs just for cactus. i have never had luck using glove of any kind. If the pads are big enough you can also get between the spines to handle them that way to help get the plant in the right position when replanting. Sometimes you need to use 2 tongs at the same time to get the job done. If you want to wrap a plant in paper, rubber bands will hold the paper in place.
I've already almost lost Stevie already this year, when he hides under his massive dandelion!
Thanks so much for the tips! Newspaper and tongs will definitely be helpful for me!!!!
We must have gone to the same cactus handling school. this is exactly what I do!
I've been going to school for over 50 years and I'm still learning.One of my last classes was moving a cholla into a larger pot and getting it to stand up straight without it hanging on to me.They don't just stick you they don't want to turn you loose.
I finally found some opuntia locally that doesn't have yellow blooms. It's not spineless but it not yellow either.The guy that brought it by said the original plant came from Texas several years ago.
I'm going to wait a while until the new growth pad matures some before cutting it off and starting a second plant. The color is some shade of purple.
I'm going to wait a while until the new growth pad matures some before cutting it off and starting a second plant. The color is some shade of purple.
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Looks nice! I can't wait to see purple blooms.
I just noticed that I left the word "not"out, but you can see in the pic it's not spineless.Looks nice! I can't wait to see purple blooms.
Very strange. I went to edit your post and add 'not' before spineless, but on the edit screen 'not' is already there. But when I closed edit, there was no 'not'. I had to delete a few words and re type them to get 'not' to show.
Thanks, I try to proof read before I post because I'm terrible with the keyboard and spelling.
The cactus started blooming this week even though we haven't had a whole lot of sun.
Beautiful! I'm going to try to remember to take my camera out with me this a.m. I noticed quite a few buds on the night blooming cereus out front. If they're open this a.m. it's quite a sight because the plant is so big.
