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Recent Posts
- Revisiting Monarchs
- Photo Viewing Invitation
- Oak Apples (or Oak Galls)
- The Pomegranate – A Beautiful Tree bearing Healthy Treats
- Solar Fountains for Existing Bird Baths
- Economical & Ecological Tips to Aid Nature
- Heat and Drought Tolerant Plants for Summer
- Pet Products that May Make Life Easier
- The Great White Buffalo
Category Archives: Weather
Overwintering Tropicals
You can successfully grow and maintain tropicals in temperate zones if you follow a few tips when overwintering them indoors. Continue reading
Posted in Plants, Seasons, Weather
Tagged asparagus fern, Crown of Thorns, environmental leaf drop, lantana, lime tree, mealy bugs, overwatering, overwintering plants, overwintering tropicals, plant caddies, plants blooming indoors, plants in garage, plumeria, root rot, scale, sun room, sunshine, tecomaria, tips for protecting tender plants, wheeled plant caddies, winter blooms
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Late Limes
November 9, 2018 Hopefully I am writing this post just in time (for those of you in my part of North Texas) to serve as a reminder to bring indoors, or at least heavily cover, your citrus, tropicals and other … Continue reading
Posted in Plants, Seasons, Weather
Tagged aromatic blooms, attracting bees, bees, citrus, citrus tree, covering plants during frost and freeze, fruit, fruit tree, gardenia aroma, growing lime trees, kaffir lime, key lime, lime, lime tree, lime trees with thorns, mexican lime, moving sensitive plants indoors for the winter, overwintering citrus trees, persian lime, pollinators, sun-loving plants, thorns
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What to Expect When Your A/C Goes Out in 100+ Temps
Hopefully this is a somewhat humorous and enlightening post regarding what I’ve learned firsthand this week living without air conditioning. We live in Texas, it is mid-July, and the daily temps, unfortunately, have reached 107+ every day this week. I … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Houseplants, Humor, Insects, Pets, Plants, Seasons, Uncategorized, Weather
Tagged 100 Degree Temperatures, 109 degrees, blooming basil, cicada killer hornet, cicada killer wasp, extreme temperatures, gardening tips for extreme heat, heatwave, hot weather, houseplants and no A/C, Humor in Heat, July in Texas, keeping cool, native plants, no A/C, No A/C Diet, no air conditioning, Over 100 degree temperatures, Pets and Plants in Extreme Heat, portable A/C, sun scald, surviving no air conditioning, surviving no airconditioning, Texas in July
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Allowing Plants Time to Recover
Well, again, it has been a while since I’ve posted. I have a few interesting topics in mind to write about this summer but unfortunately this particular topic has come to the forefront due to a personal experience with baseball-sized … Continue reading
Posted in Plants, Weather
Tagged aloe vera, baseball-sized hail, giving plants time to heal, giving plants time to recover, hail, hail damaged landscapes, hail damaged plants, hailstone, injured plants, pineapple, plumeria, regrowth, resilience, spring storms, weather, weather damaged plants
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