Comments on: Living Flowers

By: edfromct

edfromct — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:01:47 +0000

Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to hearing any of your thoughts in the future.

By: Science Updates

Science Updates — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:46:54 +0000

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By: lovewillbringustogether

lovewillbringustogether — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:54:01 +0000

I agree with Storie!

it is possible to kill things with ‘kindness’ – the trend towards obesity in our pets is a disturbing affirmation of this.

RealStorie’s comment was very inspiring too – plants are hard to kill – IF we duplicate as much as possible their NATURAL circumstances ( food water air sunlight temp and soil and watch out for the known pests/viruses)

Assuming that because we like a certain environment that they will also is unadvisable!

and i have also read the Epiphylum fruit is edible but have not tried any – or even seen many come to that… most fruits come from the remnant of a plan’ts flower ( the inner flower being a plants sex organs – where they are fertilised and give ‘birth’ ( bring forth fruit) This plants flowers live for just a few short days and are on thick fleshy stems that bud from the leaf, once the flower dies the stem shrivels and dies then falls off.

i THINK the fruit actually grows from down near the root – but as i say… although i now have five seperate plants i have not seen all that many things i would identify as fruit.

I will watch out for them more and report if i try one

By the way – these plants are ridiculously easy to propagate and care for ( they work best outside in a warm environment though and do not need much more than ‘natural’ rainwatering.

By: therealstorie

therealstorie — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:34:59 +0000

that means you are a caring person:-)

By: edfromct

edfromct — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:51:15 +0000

Storie, I did actually grow a potato in a glass once. Sprouts are pretty easy to grow. The problem I have had with the few plants I have tried to grow is a tend to overwater them.

By: Storie

Storie — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:13:02 +0000

have you tried growing sprouts (as in to eat…the ones you put on salad?)

By: edfromct

edfromct — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:48:53 +0000

Storie, that’s the most refreshing story I have read today. Frozen orchids being brought back to life through love and care.

You save orchids and Papa saves horses. Saving lives, both plant and animal, shows how caring people like you make the world a better place.

When I got my first apartment my step-mother gave me a plant to keep. I almost killed it. She “rescued” it and after she died her niece took it. It’s still going strong. You, Love, Mama and my step-mother have green thumbs. I have what ever the opposite of a green thumb is.

By: therealstorie

therealstorie — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:39:58 +0000

Well, this past February I purchased an orchid from the local grocery store. It was gorgeious…..at least 20 full white blooms. Within 2 days the blooms were wilting and falling off the stem.
When I went back to the store I saw that the orchids were all looking the same. By the following week, the orchids were all gone. I asked the florist and she said that the truck that they came in on was too cold, and that they froze. I inquired about all of the plants that the store had. One woman who works there had taken about 30 of them home. The florist thought that there might still be a few left. She took me to the back of the store and there huddled in a very dark corner of the store sat 7 plants.
The florist comped me the 29.99 for the one I bought and with that 29.99 I bought the other 7. I brought them home, put them in Southern light and let them be for several days. They had all been clipped way back, some of the leaves were yellow and wilted. They had been overwatered.
After several days, I assessed them, trimmed the dying leaves and brought into my front window a baker’s rack. I perched them all in different places on the rack. Within one month of bringing them home, all but one flowered!! I couldn’t believe it!
I have given away 4 of them since……2 of them to the widows of the firefighters we lost. I told them this story to encourage them that God put it within us to LIVE….to bloom. and that they would bloom again.

By: edfromct

edfromct — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:18:30 +0000

Papa, you are lucky to live near a commercial grower and can get cheap flowers. A nice bouquet cost $20 and up here. With the cost of living going up this is something I may to to give up soon.

By: edfromct

edfromct — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:07:53 +0000

Storie, you are right, a beautiful vase full of flowers will brighten up any room and their fragrances also acts as a room freshener, as long as you don’t have allergies.

What do you mean when you say you “rescue” orchids? I haven’t heard that term before.