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In My Garden Today
Posted by Alvin in Motown, z6 on October 3, 2025, 9:56 pm
The log-range forecast has fall-like weather returning to my area, toward the end of next week. The forecasters even went as far to say, that next week could see my last 80 degree days, until next year. What a bummer, right?
Christmas in October? Well, the shortening days, as well as the gradual lowering of average high temps, has triggered the Thanksgiving/Christmas cacti, still outdoors, to develop flower buds. No need to manually provide 12 hrs of lighting and 12 hrs of darkness, indoors, the process happens on its own, when these plants spend the warmer months, outdoors...
Here are a couple plants I got from Grassy Knoll Nursery, on the West Coast. They are two different species of TELOPEA. Telopea is a genus of Proteas, that are native to Down Under countries. One is a Telopea speciosissima, and the other is a Telopea truncata. Anybody else growing any Proteas?...
Here is a pic of a shipment of plants, received from High Country Gardens Nursery. Pictured are:
- Husker Red Penstemon - Fragrant Persian Stonecress (Aethionema) - Ben Ledi Rock Rose (Helianthemum) - Iron Butterfly Ironweed (Vernonia) - Gold On Blue Prairie Zinnia - Cooper's Hardy Ice Plant - Arrowleaf Buckwheat
Jason, I don't look forward to cold weather, either. So far, though (according to the long range), October 2025 looks alot like October 2024. If it pans out, that would mean no hard freezes, of 28 degrees or lower, until November. That would be great. More rain (not all at once, lol), would be great. My area, although summer erased the 2025 rain deficit, dry August and September has plunged my area BACK into a drought category.
Christmas cacti are finicky, when it comes to water. Too much or too little is bad. Scale insects, and slugs (in wet weather), can plague them, too. Dry, although not too dry, is best. I lose a few each year, to one of the above reasons, each year. Fortunately, unlike some other plant species, arent too expensive to replace. Keeping as as many alive, from one year to the next, is a great thing.
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