Trees and Plants! About this section...
This section will be much like a blog or notebook area for our indoor and outdoor tree, flower, and plant keeping and experiments. We'll post information up that will probably not be helpful to you as a reader or gardener as far as keeping plants and trees thriving and healthy. This is mainly because we spend no money at all on our plants and trees once we acquire them. So whether a plant lives or dies depends on how well our indoor and outdoor care for it turns out.
We'll record things about certain plant and tree species that we are currently keeping in our area and what these plants are going through as far as soils type, potted or in ground containment, fertilizer if we have any and use it, average and extreme temperatures for past years the plants may have survived through, and their lighting conditions. We do practice some bonsai techniques, but don't be surprised if nothing looks beautiful yet. Most of our trees are in training or being first started out.
We'll record things about certain plant and tree species that we are currently keeping in our area and what these plants are going through as far as soils type, potted or in ground containment, fertilizer if we have any and use it, average and extreme temperatures for past years the plants may have survived through, and their lighting conditions. We do practice some bonsai techniques, but don't be surprised if nothing looks beautiful yet. Most of our trees are in training or being first started out.
Or keep reading below for other tree and plant topics including lists of what we have or want to get into our collection.
Species we have...
Below you'll find a full list of the 40 identified plant species we have. Click on the name of the plant you want to see info on and a link will take you to a page catered to that kind of plant. Or you can scroll below to see summaries and photos of each species we have. Lists are in alphabetical order of the scientific names of trees and plants. Please note that we do not sell plants and trees, and have no idea how to do this even if we wanted to. Though in truth we would probably only sell well started bonsai trees. LINKS are WIP
Side note, all of the christmas cactus's we were sold were sold as Christmas cactus's under the Schlumberera truncata scientific name but two of them were actually other species. Nice job grocery and lowes stores...
Acer negundo - Box Elder tree (outdoor bonsai only)
Aloe barbadensis - Curaçao-Aloe, Commonly sold as "Aloe Vera" plant
Anthurium andraeanum - Anthurium, Flamingo Lilly (red flower variety)
Araucaria heterophylla - Norfolk Island Pine, Star Pine (Only two of these left)
Buxus microphylla var. koreana x Buxus sempervirens - 'Green Gem' Boxwood (indoor only bonsai)
Chlorophytum comosum - Spider Plant, Airplane Plant (Pure Green Leaf Variety) We have too many of these)
Chlorophytum comosum - Spider Plant, Airplane Plant (Green and White Leaf Variety)
Citrus x sinensis - Orange Tree (We have five in all)
Codiaeum variegatum - Croton (one plant, and on leaf we managed to root)
Crassula ovata - Jade Plant, Money Plant, Lucky Plant
Dracaena deremensis - Janet Craig Compacta
Dracaena godseffiana - Store called this a "Florida Beauty" (Probably my favorite plant)
Dracaena marginata Tricolor - Madagascar Dragon Tree
Dracaena sanderiana - Lucky Bamboo Plant (we killed the dozen or so of ours spare for one stick of it)
Dracaena trifasciata - Previously known as "Sansevieria trifasciata" Snake Plant, Mother in Laws Tongue
Epipremnum aureum - Pothos, Devil's Ivy, Jade Pothos
Epipremnum aureum - Pothos, Devil's Ivy, Golden Marbled Pothos
Epipremnum aureum - Pothos, Devil's Ivy, Marble Queen Pothos
Ficus microcarpa- Chinese Banyan (A few rooted cuttings from an old larger tree that died years ago..)
Ficus pumila - Creeping Fig (Successfully propagated a small pot now)
Hibiscus spp. - Large Single Red Hibiscus (A tall single red flowered hibiscus we have no idea the genetics of. Growing a rooted cutting given as a gift...)
Hibiscus spp.- Dwarf Red Hibiscus (Bought as a dwarf from lowes growing single red flowered hibiscus...)
Hibiscus trionum - Hibiscus (Ours is called "Apricot" color and is a hybrid hibiscus)
Hippeastrum - Amaryllis (Triple large red flower bulb...)
Hoya -?- Hoya (We have an unidentified hoya we've spit several times. Might be Hoya multiflora)
Hylotelephium spectabile - Hylotelephium, Showy Stonecrop, Ice Plant, or Orpine (We manage to keep these indoors and out. Ours should be Pinkish flowered.)
Iris germanica - German Iris, Common Flag (We have several different color varieties potted outdoors only)
Lysimachia nummularia - Moneywort, Creeping Jenny, or Creeping Yellow Loosestrife
Maranta leuconeura - Prayer Plant
Mimosa pudica - Sensitive Plant (One small plant that survived its first winter 2020)
Peperomia obtusifolia - Peperomia Variegata (White Variegated)
Persea americana - Avacado (We have several saplings started from seeds...)
Picea glauca 'Conica' - Dwarf Alberta Spruce, Dwarf White Spruce (Outdoor bonsai only)
Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri - Easter Cactus, commonly sold as Christmas Cactus
Saintpaulia ionantha - African Violet (pink flowered variety)
Saintpaulia ionantha - African Violet (wild type purple flowered variety)
Schefflera arboricola - Schefflera, Umbrella Tree
Schlumbergera bridgesii - Christmas Cactus, the real Christmas Cactus?
Schlumbergera truncata - Thanksgiving Cactus, commonly sold as Christmas Cactus
Spathiphyllum spp. - Unsure of Identification (Bought as a dwarf peace lilly from lowes...)
Spathiphyllum wallisii - Peace Lilly
Syngonium podophyllum - Arrowhead Vine (Not 100% sure this is the ID of this plant)
Tradescantia spathacea - Oyster Plant, Moses in the cradle plant, Cradle Lily, ect... (have one rooted cutting)
Tradescantia zebrina - Wandering Jew Plant
We have a few others that we are still identifying so please be patient with us.
Species we want to work with...
There are a number of plant species we would love to work with. I myself (Terra) have wanted a ginkgo tree for many years and nearly cultivated some cuttings whilst in school of their ginkgos. Unfortunately the few rooted cuttings died the winter after. Since then I've been looking for a dwarf ginkgo to bonsai among other species. A few species we would like seeds, plants, shrubs, saplings, or bonsai from will be listed below.
I grew up with a house full of spider plants and have loved keeping indoor plants ever since then. We have expanded the collection a bit, but there are certainly many more indoor plants we would like to start working with. This group includes non flowering and flowering tropicals as well as indoor trees. Click the button to the right to see what indoor plants we are looking for.
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I've always enjoyed maple trees for their hardiness and fall color. They make good bonsai material and there are a few species we are looking for. Click the button to the left to see what maples we are looking for.
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Ever since I grew up next to a massive red oak in Pennsylvania I've loved their presence and fall color. We are really only looking for two oak species in particular for personal bonsai subjects. Click on the button to the right to see what oaks we are looking for.
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As stated before I (Terra) have loved ginkgos ever since I first learned about them. I had a few tiny saplings grown from cuttings that survived a winter, grew some foliage, and then died later that spring. They just didn't have enough vigor and energy in them to survive our northern New York winters. There are a few kinds of ginkgos we are looking for. Click the button to the left to see what varieties we are trying to get.
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We'll be lumping most of the evergreen coniferous species together as there are not very many we are looking for. I've had bad luck with spruces considering we must grow them outside without a green house and the neighboring spruce trees are very sick. Every time I try to transplant a wild pine they die over winter. So if we get any conifers they must be well started trees in pots. Click the button to the right to see what conifers we are looking for.
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