Time to enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas Catus’11.23.07

I have two cactus like plants. One is a Thanksgiving Cactus and the other is of the same species, Schlumbergera, and is known as a Christmas Cactus.

General care for plants of the Schlumbergera species is to give them moderate to bright light in the Spring and Summer months. Lighting depends upon exactly which [...]



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I’m back from Vegas11.12.07

Sorry for the lack of posts since Wednesday. I had planned to write regularly while I was in Vegas, but I barely had an internet connection in my hotel so I was unable to make any new posts!
That was such a drag! I was in Vegas for two blogging conventions and ended up with [...]



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Time to bring the tropical plants indoors!10.19.07

It’s cooled down here in Toronto quite a bit over the last week. In fact, some night’s have started to get close to freezing temperatures.

So, I think I’m going to bring all my tropical plants indoors again. I did put all the tropicals like the passionflower vines, the jasmine, ornamental peppers and so [...]



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Talk about strange weather10.05.07

So far October is shaping up to be more like the end of August or early September temperature wise.
It’s been no less than 10 degrees higher than the average temperatures for this time of year and often a lot higher than that.

This weekend is Thanks Giving here in Canada and the temps are supposed to [...]



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