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Indoor pots
Posted by Donna Wright | January 13, 2020Can I use Osmocote flower & vegetable time release with my indoor pots?
bamboo house plant fertilization
Posted by Ilene Moe | January 8, 2020The plant is in an small amount of water. Does it need to be fertilized?
Baby Tears Plant
Posted by Janean Draper | January 8, 2020Please help me with my indoor plant, Baby Tears. I am great with indoor plants, but this one keeps losing leaves. I took it to the patio and softly brushed off the dead leaves last week. It looks so bad. Should I use some food, more or less? I'm a faithly weekly waterer, maybe too much for this one, so ...
Avocado plant
Posted by Susan36 | January 8, 2020I bought a Chicago heart avocado plant early last summer. I had it outside for the summer and fall. I brought it in in late October and something was definitely eating the leaves. I have been spraying it with neem oil. Now the leaves are turning a rusty color and curling up. I have some flowers on it so it ...
Gaultheria Procumbens
Posted by Janean Draper | January 8, 2020Hello, so excited to be here. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with NW gardeners. After the holidays I purchased 4 in 3" pots, Gaultheria plants. Reading it's a evergreen shrub low growing creeper. I have a rock wall L shaped, 2 years new on Lake Roesiger. Full sun.. Still trying to fill spaces. Lower maintenance then in my last ...
indoor Succulent plants
Posted by Ilene Moe | January 8, 2020not ove rwatering - in bright spot - changed succulent soil - does not want to thrive
Orchid Plant care
Posted by Ilene Moe | January 8, 2020Care suggested for orchid plants that have finished blooming and for those that are still blooming
Sweet Peas
Posted by TomandLinda | January 2, 2020I live in the greater Seattle area. Could you tell me when is the earliest I could plant sweet peas in my garden?
Plant ID
Posted by woltzen | December 17, 2019Do you know what plant this is? It has not flowered yet. I must have broadcasted last summer outside in a sunny location. It is definitely frost hardy. I am on the south hill of Puyallup
Another Orchis Question
Posted by bstohler | December 9, 2019Is There a Sure-Fire Way to get Orchids to Rebloom?
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