GREAT wealth of knowledge here. I'm glad that I joined up. I've recently started to get my hands green after years of just looking at
flowers and
plants.
When I got my house back together after Hurricane Katrina I started rearranging
plants and other
flowers to, you know, start learning and
growing things.
Backing up about 3 months BEFORE hurricane Katrina, My son came over one day before he left to go to North Carolina and in the back of his truck he had some
flowers that he got from his neighbor that was just throwing things away. He didn't have much room for them and asked if I could just take them off his hands.
Well, I planted these 2
plants in the front of the house and low an behold "I DO HAVE A GREEN THUMB" or at least I thought I did. Well, one day I was mowing the yard and
weed eating and I did the mother of all no-no's. I got too close to these
plants and whacked them down at ground level and my heart just fell out. I just chalked them up as a learning experience. I dug up the roots and threw them in the back yard and forgot about them. Well about 2 weeks later when I was cleaning up the back yard I saw these 2 carcasses and they actually weren"t dead. They actually had new growth on them. I was reenergized and planted them in a pot and nurtured them. Well, to this day I don't know what they're called but NOT ONLY did they survive they also created a long stem of pods or bulbs (excuse the ignorance) and when the long stems grew too heavy these stems actually fell on the ground. Once on the ground the bulbs would release from the stem. I said what the heck. I planted the bulbs and gave them plenty of sunlight and water and NOW I have more of these starting to grow.
Anyway, once these stems were on the ground the stem actually started to die off. I picked up some of these bulbs and potted a few and NOW THEY'RE
growing.. (see I still have a green thumb)
As you can see these
plants are now starting the stemming process all over again and soon I'll have about 20 or more bulbs to start the seeding process. WOW.. I must be blessed with 2 green hands or something. (NOT)
I've taken pictures of these 2 that have gotten so big that I planted them in the front yard. Here are the pictures:
Can you tell me what kind of
plants these are?
Also, the leaves have brown spots on them and it looks like there's something eating them or maybe not enough nutrients in the soil. Any help to maintain these remarkable resilient
plants is GREATLY appretiated.
Thanks,
Thunder