Hi! My name is Michael, I'm a Landscape Architect and Environmentalist. I provide professional advice on house plants, gardening and landscape design. On gardening, we currently focus on landscape zones 9, 10 and 11 but will soon be expanding to other zones. 😀🪴
WE HAVE 4 PLAYLISTS 1) HOW TO GROW HOUSE PLANTS (Indoor Environment) 2) GARDENING ADVICE (Outdoor Environment) 3) PRO TIPS ON LANDSCAPE DESIGN (Global Environment) 4) QUICK TIPS (Quick fixes to common gardening/ houseplant issues)
Please do a video on Alocasia Amazonica. The market (Home Depot, Lowe’s, plant stores is now suddenly flooded with them. I love your videos. I’m having plant success as a result of your videos. THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Yes!, Just place her where she can get bright light and no drafts, water approx every 9 days( but dont let soil get soggy between waterings) and she should be good through the winter indoors.😀🪴
Fun video! Thanks! Two questions: First, percentage of hydrogen peroxide to water? 50/50? 75 water/25 hydrogen peroxide? Second question: I have a baby one from a mother plant that I put in a self watering pot that my son made (3D printed). It has been seriously struggling. Plus, every few weeks (3-4), the pot stinks. I repot (haven't used the worm castings), but a similar mix to yours. It's too wet and breeds bacteria. I want that pot for a friend who's terrible at remembering to water, but now I feel as though I am drowning it! A friend of my son's uses these pots for propagation, so I don't think it's the pot. Ideas?
Hi there. You can use a 50/50 mix, or even a more diluted mix will still work at 70% water and 30% hy peroxide. As to your baby not doing well, the bad smell on soil could be root rot from excessive moisture or if you use fish emulsion products as fertilizer , that too can cause a bad odor. I am not sure of the 3d printed pot design and its water wicking ability ( too much or too little?) . Maybe try changing out the water every month. and consider using a clay pot for your violets . 😀🪴
Thank you. The music is loud, and your speech is low and very calm. I learned a lot. Maybe on your next video, you can turn the music down. Great job! Thank you
Hi! I have made reference to some Alocasias in videos past. Is there one in particular that you are interested? Or are you interested in an overall video on the various different species of Alocasias? 😀🪴
I like to add background music to cover my pauses ( dead air) and some people have said they like the music vibe, so I thought if I I kept music volume low enough, that it wouln't be an issue for others. Anyways, thanks for feedback Georg😀🪴
Hi... I'm from Indonesia, the place where Dieffenbachia is growing perfectly outdoors even without some busy treatments on them. They need tender light and you can do watering once or twice a week. I think dieffenbachia don't need complicated treatments. More progressive types of dieffenbachia called AGLAONEMA, or simply: Aglo (hybrid types of dieffenbachia) are more complicated to care for. You will love Aglo when you see it. Aglo contains so much colors, shapes and the size is more compact than natural Dieffenbachia . Just check it on youtube 😁
The fine people at Sperling’s Nursery in the Los Angeles area had a beautiful specimen in their garden-like nursery, which inspired me to buy a five gallon tree nearly twenty years ago. But they warned me that she’s a slow grower and to reach full size (theirs was about 25’) would take 25-30 years. They were right, but every year since maybe three years in the ground the spring show has been stunning. I rarely pruned for shape, instead using string, stakes and nearby trees to pull weeping branches into a more upright habit. I keep the roots covered in leaf litter and she gets afternoon shade from the strong west summer sun from a pair of California sycamores and a Liquidamber. She pairs nicely with some Crape Myrtle multi trunk trees. The grove arrangement keeps all the trees sheltered from the annual Santa Ana winds that blow in (40-70mph) through the mountain passes in October/November from Utah. A wonderful tree!
Hi there! I am glad your tabs hold up well to those Santa Ana winds! Over here in Fla windstorms sometimes cause an issue with tipping. Thanks for the comment. Cheers!😀🪴
Hi there. Maybe not kill, but can degrade gardenia health. It is better to have grafted to G. Thunbergii root stcok, we have found. Those grafted gardenias do better against pests( nematodes) and tend to flower bigger & more robustly when grafted. Hope this helps😀🪴
Perfect video, thanks so much! I just brought a cutting from my sisters that I’m going to attempt to grow. Her plant is 45 years old 😮 Btw, where do you live? Gorgeous views😍😍
Thanks for sharing my morning coffee with me. What is a brand name of light, airy, soil mix for Hoya. I prefer to buy a soil already mixed. Thanks for your videos, I really enjoy them.
Yes, I have a topic. I would actually like to see how much water for that size Hoya. How many ounces of water do you use and how often for that size pot. No one shows exactly how much water. I think people would like to see how much by using a clear measuring cup. I enjoy your videos. Thank you!!!!!
I always assumed these were those larger palms that grow several feet high and avoided them because I don't have the space or lighting for something that large, but now that I know they only grow about 3ft I will definitely be picking one up next time I see one at the store.
I have seen some small trees start flowering 1 yr out (when planted as a 25 gal tree), But it usually takes several years to flower if you start small (7 gal size)😀🪴
I did exactly what you said. They rooted wonderfully and I planted them and nothing ever happened. All I got was a rooted leaf, what did I do wrong? Great video BTW.
Hi there, Sometimes they do that. For best success, I have found that taking a cutting segment of stem plus the leaf petiole has best outcome. Hope this helps! 😀🪴
Thank you for making these videos. I was looking a list of the plants shown so I could research more about them online. I live in central Florida and was born in South Florida so I think there are a lot of these plants that I have forgotten about and I would like to have them in my current landscape so any more information you have would be appreciated. Thank you again.
You are most welcome. I currently am working on a large overarching plant list, but vid production is swallowing up my time. I will get to it shortly, in the mean time, you are welcome to check out our other vids on plants for Florida gardens, we have created quite a few. Cheers!😀🪴
Loved this! Thank you. I live in Gulfport, outside of St. Petersburg, Gulf side of state. In 23 years I have seen my zone climb. Also, we are really sandy soil. I have really been struggling with plants in 10 b full sun (my front yard). My back yard has trees so it gets mainly sun but not totally. We face East /west. You gave me some great ideas, just how to arrange them now. 😳
Hi there, you should be ok, you area little high on the perlite, so make sure your palm doesn't dry out too quick, but she should be ok. In the future ( 1 yr out) mix a bit of worm castings in to enrich the soil profile. 😀🪴
@@LETSGROWGARDENDESIGN oh damn you’re up late too (or on the west coast?) Maybe the mix is a blessing in disguise, cause I always feel like I over water
I wonder if anyone has tried to group it in zone 9a. I know its typically south florida native but we rarely get hard frost in the area of 9a that Im in. At least we haven't in years
Hi there, you could try growing the Gumbo, but I would recommend a protected area ( a wind break like installing on the south side of house) away from NW winter winds. 😀 🪴
We live on a tropical island in Thailand. This tree seems to trive where everything else dies. It's sort of a symbol of Thailand as well as the orchid.
I have gotten baby plants from the side of the mother plant. They are a little difficult in the winter in Sweden, so dark here for a long period of the year. but they seem happy, and produce flowers.
Hi! I have been growing African violets for more than 20 years. Unfortunately, there are (very) many mistakes in the video when dealing with African violets. You use much smaller pots because African violets don't like large ones. I would cut off the older violets at the end of the video, scrape off the remaining stem (about 1-2 inches) and plant in new soil. Then put it in a bag and let it root. It is also advisable to remove leaves until only 3 rows remain. This is how you rejuvenate the plant. Give it a try!
