[Ag-eq] House plants

Tue Aug 28 13:11:23 UTC 2018

Hi Nella.
There are plenty of plants well-adapted to low light.  They are usually in
the houseplant section of catalogs/websites.  Sanseveria, aka
mother-in-law's tongue or snake plant, is one.  It also cleans the air. 
But it can get very tall and floppy.
I have a hoya I really like.  It's in the cactus family, but doesn't have
thorns.  It even flowers occasionally.  I also have a bead plant, senecio,
which looks like strings of beads.  I got both of them from loge.com.  Or
maybe loges.com; I forget exactly.  They have lots of houseplants.
I also have some air plants.  They need to be soaked in water once a week,
so might not be good for an office, but they are easy-care and
interesting.  I got them from Amazon.
Tracy

> Hello to all.
>
> I'm wanting to create a small indoor garden in my office.  I would like to
> have some plants, rocks and a small indoor fountain.  My office has no
> natural light, so I don't know if any plants will live there.  Do you all
> have some plant suggestions?
>
> I also welcome any suggestions on designing my indoor garden space.  I
> have
> 3 shelves that hang on the wall  and that is where I plan on putting it.
> The shelves are pretty wide.
>
> I look forward to all your great ideas.
>
> Nella
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ag-eq [mailto:ag-eq-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
> via Ag-eq
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2018 7:25 AM
> To: 'Agricultural and Equestrean Division List'
> Cc: Tracy Carcione
> Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Honey locusts
>
> Jewel, are you sure the difficulty in obtaining one isn't because they are
> invasive, so they're tightly controlled?
> Though that doesn't always happen.  I was looking at currants to replace a
> shrub that died, and I was all excited about it, but my research turned up
> that they can carry a disease that affects other species, especially in
> New
> Jersey, so they're not recommended.  Oh well.
>
> If I had lots of space, I'd get a nut tree, like shagbark hickory, which
> sounds real interesting.  Or maybe a couple pawpaw, which is a native
> fruit
> tree.  Other people dream of big cars and yachts; I dream of nut trees.
> Tracy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ag-eq [mailto:ag-eq-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jewel via Ag-eq
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2018 2:03 AM
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> Cc: Jewel
> Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Honey locusts
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> Tracy!  I had been thinking  along those lines too, but, though that
> measure
> of separation might be ideal for the trees:  if I stick around long enough
> to see them in their full maturity, they will just have to accept that
> their
> branches are going to get entangled.
>
> The two replies that I have had from goatsplus, both were very negative;
> one
> correspondent said that, in Texas, the thorned variety: I am getting  the
> thornless:  are regarded as trash trees as the dropped thorns can cripple
> a
> car, so if they can do that, what damage would they inflict on an
> unprotected human?  considerable would be my guess, so they are grubbed
> out
> wherever they are found, and the other said that they grow like weeds and
> are very invasive.
> I hope that she is correct on them growing "like weeds" because weeds grow
> very well on TheBlanchRanch, and as to their tendency to invade:  well, in
> New Zealand they don't, for if they did, they would be easy to obtain,
> which
> they are not!
>
>          Jewel
>
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> From: "Tracy
>  Carcione via Ag-eq" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
>
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2018 2:41 AM
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> Cc: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Honey locusts
>
> Hi Jewel.
> I think what you need to know is the spread.  Then you'd know how far
> apart
> to put them.  So, if the spread is 22 meters, which it might or not be,
> and
> you put them 22 meters apart, I'd think, when they're full-grown, they'd
> just be touching each other at the ends of their branches.  In theory.
> You're so lucky.  I'd love to have some big trees, but I don't have enough
> space.
> Tracy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2018 3:06 AM
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> Cc: Jewel
> Subject: [Ag-eq] Honey locusts
>
> This is a variety of tree that I have been anxious to grow for many years,
> but until a week ago, I hadn't been able to find a nursery that had them.
> but now I have and am getting 4 seedlings.
> However, unless I am fortunate enough to set up a new record for
> longevity,
> it is unlikely, though not impossible, that I will see them through to
> their
> maturity.
> I have very bad luck at persuading vegetables to frow for me, but, to
> date,
> the majority of trees that I have planted have done very well.
> I see, from the web, that honey locusts grow to a height of 20m: 66 feet
> or
> thereabouts.  I don't want to plant them, unnecessarily, far apart nor do
> I
> wish to overcrowd them, so if any of you have had H L, what did you find
> was
> the optimum separation?
>
>            Jewel
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