Insomnia Thread...

[jreidsma]

My umbrella tree thats going in the pot I mentioned above has no branches right now. I cut the top part of it off and its not very big or good looking right now. After it starts showing more growth I will show some pictures

I am getting some Andean weeping cherry seeds form a trade and they are tropical cherries that don't go dormant! I am going to bonsai them to.

Once I manage to get some jade plants form trades I will probably try making them look like a small tree.

Now I am obsessed with bonsai!

[Jananas Bananas]

I would like to try and bonsai one of my star fruit seedlings too! I think a mimosa would make a good one too! I have a lot of things I could try it with, but I am just going to start with a bougainvillea!

[jreidsma]

Mimosa trees make great bonsai. I have seen many of them and they look incredible

Star fruit bonsai are harder to find, I haven't seen very many in a while. Except on google

I subscribed to this guy on youtube:
‪bonsai9723's Channel‬‏ - YouTube

He has a couple mimosa bonsai. And he has some really good tutorials. The one winter really screwed up some of his plants though. But he has some good advice

[Jananas Bananas]

Yeah that's the same guy that I have watched do several. He is showing papaya in the one it opened on. I have three papaya growing right now in one of my AeroGardens! I'm going to watch this and see what he does with them.

[jreidsma]

He has some very nice looking trees

Well, off to bed. Talk to everyone later

[The Hollyberry Lady]

G'night Jordan.


Congrats about your bonsai!


I just got home and was checking out some posts. Hope everyone is well. Guess where I'm going in a few days? Back to the zoo, but also to Marine Land in Niagara Falls!!! I wanna get some pics of the Falls for you guys too. Oh they will be so beautiful!


Busy enjoying summer activities with my mom, and learning to use my new cameras. Sorry I'm just not around these days but that will change soon enough. Autumn is coming fast and I just want to enjoy summer while I can. It was a long winter and it'll be here again too soon.


Hope you guys have a great Friday. Chat soon...


: )

[MissStress]

Congrats on joining the digital SLR club Sherry!

TMI below! -



I have had no time to garden OR post.. we've been going to intense fertility treatments trying to make a pup.. lol After a year of pills, they are moving me to injectable hormones to prep for IUI. Yay.. :/ Intense schedule, loads of traveling and doc appts. I promise I will try to get out in the yard with a camera and actually UPLOAD some pics!

[jreidsma]

I didn't fall asleep until 1:30 oh well.

I have to get off the computer before my mom falls asleep because I have to has gloves and stuff with medication on my hands every night.

Hope you have a good time in joying what is left of our small summer. I get stuck at home pretty much the whole time so I get more time to spend with online friends

MissStress, hope everything goes well for you sounds like its not that fun as everything is right now.

[The Hollyberry Lady]

Good luck, Trina! Hope it all works out well for you. Thanks for poppng in to say hi.


So how is everyone doing? I miss you guys.


It's a gorgeous sunny day here today, with no humidity.


: )

[jreidsma]

According to an online weather thingy it is 81 degrees with 61% humidity and going up. At least right now anyways.

I am sitting here posting on three forums at once drinking some milk Soon I will be playing a game at the same time to.

[The Hollyberry Lady]

I'm going out shortly so I'm getting ready. It's too nice of a day to stay inside.


I think we're going to Marineland on Monday or Tuesday of next week. Plus we're going back to the zoo on the weekend likely because we missed a lot the first time. It's a huge park and you definitely need 2 days enjoy it. I missed the Gorillas on the first visit.


So I hope everyone enjoys the weather and has a great weekend. Summer is great...when it's not muggy.


Did you guys see my recent zoo shots? Check out this Pelican. Too funny...








How about this adorable Penguin...





Gonna load more zoo pics soon...


: )

[Willow87]

Good luck Trina. Sherry I love the picture of the pelican! Your pictures make me want to go to the zoo , but not in this heat lol. I'm trying to stay cool and I had to do emergency watering for some of my plants. I wanted to post some pictures of my desert willow seedlings. Thanks for the comment on Plantswap Jordan. They look like 4 leaf clovers lol

[jreidsma]

Hope they do well I am interested in seeing how they do.

[Willow87]

Thanks Jordan. I'm hoping they do well too since they are drought tolerant and attract butterflies, bees and hummingbirds. I've read that they can survive on as little as 10 inches of rain. I'm going to transplant half outdoors once it cools off and keep the other half indoors just in case the outdoor ones don't make it. Its a beautiful tree in my opinion and its also called the "Orchid of the Desert" because of its blooms

[jreidsma]

Makes me look even more forward to seeing yours grow into larger plants

[Willow87]

I can't wait either. My first attempt at growing them from seed failed. That was last year. I'm slowly transitioning to drought tolerant plants

[jreidsma]

The way this stupid weather is getting I might have to get more drought tolerant plants to for outside.

GLOBAL WARMING, effecting the "hand" of our country....

(Michigan is shaped like hand)

[Willow87]

Soon we may see water restrictions here. A reservoir west of here is almost empty. There hasn't been any rain since June 21 and its been over 30 days of 100+ temperatures.

[jreidsma]

What is the humidity?

We get our water form the city, so water isn't a problem. Everything just dries out so fast we can't keep up with it.

For a while it was 90-100+ degrees and the humidity was very high. So it felt like 120-130. I don't know if it is still that hot, it feels like it though.

[Jananas Bananas]

More fires today in all directions. This one was close enough to us that I took more shots. This is the helicopter that was dropping water on the fire.



He sucks the water from the pond with the hose that is hanging down.



This is a short video of the helicopter (just click on the picture):



Billowing smoke blocking the sun.



~JaNan