Category: Plants and Garden

  • Saturday, 02 May 2026

    Saturday, 02 May 2026

    Harry’s Birds Nest Fern is declared unlikely to survive so will be replaced…

    We’re one third of the way through the year.

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  • Thursday, 30 April 2026

    Thursday, 30 April 2026

    An update on the indoor mint and rosemary – going well!
    Aiding that was the installation of LED grow lights for all the indoor plants on 17Apr26, all loving that, more updates in the coming weeks.

    This is now four months of daily photographs achieved!

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  • Monday, 27 April 2026

    Monday, 27 April 2026

    Lego Botanical Collection Tiny Plants [10329]

    This set has 9 plants in total, these are the 3 largest – L to R:
    Carnivorous – Yellow Pitcher Plant [Sarracenia flava]
    Tropical – Laceleaf [Anthurium andraeanum]
    Arid – Pincushion Cactus [Mammilaria crinita f. zeilmanniana]


    Below the full set – L to R:

    Small
    Tropical – False Shamrock [Oxalis triangularis]
    Arid – Britton’s Liveforever [Dudleya brittonii]
    Carnivorous – Venus Flytrap [Dionaea muscipula]

    Medium
    Tropical – Jade Plant [Crassula ovata]
    Arid – Eastern Prickly Pear [Opuntia humifusa]
    Carnivorous – Red Sundew [Drosera brevifolia]

    Large
    Tropical – Laceleaf [Anthurium andraeanum]
    Arid – Pincushion Cactus [Mammilaria crinita f. zeilmanniana]
    Carnivorous – Yellow Pitcher Plant [Sarracenia flava]


    Arid
    Large – Pincushion Cactus [Mammilaria crinita f. zeilmanniana]
    Medium – Eastern Prickly Pear [Opuntia humifusa]
    Small – Britton’s Liveforever [Dudleya brittonii]


    Carnivorous
    Large – Yellow Pitcher Plant [Sarracenia flava]
    Medium – Red Sundew [Drosera brevifolia]
    Small – Venus Flytrap [Dionaea muscipula]


    Tropical
    Large – Laceleaf [Anthurium andraeanum]
    Medium – Jade Plant [Crassula ovata]
    Small – False Shamrock [Oxalis triangularis]



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  • Sunday, 26 April 2026

    Sunday, 26 April 2026

    An update on the eastern garden beds.

    SE (above and below) – Mint


    NE – Seaside Daisy


    NW – Seaside Daisy


    SW – Seaside Daisy and Oregano


    Raised beds – Seaside Daisy and Frangipani

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  • Thursday, 23 April 2026

    Thursday, 23 April 2026

    Lego Botanical Collection Tiny Plants [10329]

    This set has 9 plants in total, these are the middle 3 – L to R:
    Carnivorous – Red Sundew [Drosera brevifolia]
    Tropical – Jade Plant [Crassula ovata]
    Arid – Eastern Prickly Pear [Opuntia humifusa]

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  • Tuesday, 21 April 2026

    Tuesday, 21 April 2026

    Lego Botanical Collection Tiny Plants [10329]

    This set has 9 plants in total, these are the 3 smallest – L to R: Tropical – False Shamrock [Oxalis triangularis]
    Carnivorous – Venus Flytrap [Dionaea muscipula]
    Arid – Britton’s Liveforever [Dudleya brittonii]

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  • Monday, 20 April 2026

    Monday, 20 April 2026

    Lego Botanical Collection Chrysanthemum [10368]

    One of the Four Gentlemen or Four Noble Ones series representing the seasons, chrysanthemum represents autumn.
    Given we are in the Australian autumn it is convenient that it is the plant that we already have, the rest will be ordered, likely shown at the start of their season.

    We’ve seen the Lego flowers, now a look at the various Lego plants in the collection.

    We can’t kill these plants, worst treatment is they can collect dust!

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  • Saturday, 18 April 2026

    Saturday, 18 April 2026

    Latest rainfall update across the last two days. The table is down at the bottom.

    An ABC News online article on the 150 anniversary of the Catalpa incident – https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-18/catalpa-rescue-150th-anniversary-of-fremantle-prison-break/106556082, our visit to the memorial was on 15Mar26.

    We now have the new pot and rocks for the latest Lego Sunflower [10Apr26] , and with the older Lego sunflowers [06Apr26].

    Date
    Range
    Manual
    Period
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    Digital
    Period
    Digital
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    17Apr to
    18Apr
    4.0118.20.885.75.0125.4
    16Apr114.284.9120.4
    15Apr1.0114.21.884.91.6120.4
    10Apr to
    14Apr
    113.283.1118.8
    09Apr0.4113.283.11.2118.8
    07Apr to
    08Apr
    112.883.1117.6
    06Apr2.7112.83.883.13.0117.6
    31Mar to
    05Apr
    110.179.3114.6
    28Mar 15:00 to
    30Mar
    2.5110.10.479.32.2114.6
    27Mar to 28Mar 15:00102.0107.672.778.9105.2112.4
    27Feb to 26Mar5.66.27.2
    26Feb4.05.64.56.23.07.2
    22Feb to 25Feb1.61.74.2
    20Feb to 21Feb1.60.21.74.2
    11Feb to 19Feb1.61.54.2
    10Feb0.11.60.41.54.2
    27Jan to 09Feb1.51.14.2
    25Jan to 26Jan1.51.51.11.14.24.2
    01Jan to 24Jan
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  • Monday, 13 April 2026

    Monday, 13 April 2026

    Another attempt at indoor mint and rosemary, this time in soil.

    The rosemary plants are cuttings that have rooted, and the mint are from the rooted cuttings that were initially planned for outside.

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  • Saturday, 11 April 2026

    Saturday, 11 April 2026

    Updates on the Birds Nest Ferns.

    Unfortunately even over summer there hasn’t been enough light inside for Harry’s fern. Ron’s fern (above and below) has been doing reasonable outside, so has been brought inside.

    To resolve the light issue, an LED grow light has been purchsed for above the pot. Grow lights have also been purchased for all the indoor plants.

    The pole at the back is the LED light stand, and the green device is a soil moisture meter linked to the weather station.

    Below is Harry’s fern, which might not surrive 🙁 . It has been moved outside to see if it recovers or needs replacement.

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