Petee Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09360/1023541-47.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 wow!! thats an old plant. I killed the one my grandmother gave me. Just not good with house plants :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 I've killed them too but the secret is to add a lot of sand to the potting soil. Let them get good and dry between waterings. Put them outside in the shade for the sumer. Now I have a bunch of starts to get rid of! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 oh trust me it got good and dry between waterings ... lol. i would put it out in the shade in the summer, and as soon as I brought it in, in early fall, it would start blooming and would be done by the time Christmas got here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastman Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 We had one of those that my wife got from her grandmother...damn thing bloomed in July, but very seldom if ever at Christmas. It died years ago. (never took it outside, maybe that was the problem) :-/ I'm not much of a green thumb, but I do have some hanging plant in the living room that came from her grandmothers funeral (19 years ago), a long stemmed thingy with leaves that came from my Mom's funeral (6 yrs ago today), a spider plant that has been restarted many times from its offspring, and a plant from Canada that grows huge red flowers from an approx. 3 1/2" round bulb. I've "killed" them all several times from neglect, but they keep coming back. ..."My Mom's funeral (6 yrs ago today)"...never realized it was today until I went to look it up in the Bible. :B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sscamaro Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 sorry for your loss eastman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 ..."My Mom's funeral (6 yrs ago today)"...never realized it was today until I went to look it up in the Bible. :B My mom died 2 yrs ago today. You were one of the first people to know besides family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastman Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 sorry for your loss eastman TY, she was the best Mother anyone could wish for and lived a good long life...she's better off than any of us here. I knew it was 2 days after Christmas, but didn't realize that today was the 27th...was no need to look at the calendar the last few days not being at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastman Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 My mom died 2 yrs ago today. You were one of the first people to know besides family. True, and I forgot about that too. ...'Christmas Cactus Memories'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderer Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 SIL had a cactus plant at her house, hubby forgot it was a cactus plant swiped up against it, his hand had thorns all over. He didn't go near it after that. It was huge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBerlin Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 My Christmas cactus has bloomed 4 times this year. For Christmas it had only 1 flower on it but the rest of the times it was beautiful with tons of blooms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 this is the only cactus I can keep alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sscamaro Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 My mom died 2 yrs ago today. You were one of the first people to know besides family. sorry for your loss bon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 sorry for your loss bon thanks, I try not to think about it. thinking more about my brother today for some reason :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted January 9, 2010 Author Share Posted January 9, 2010 We had one of those that my wife got from her grandmother...damn thing bloomed in July, but very seldom if ever at Christmas. It died years ago. (never took it outside, maybe that was the problem) :-/ I'm not much of a green thumb, but I do have some hanging plant in the living room that came from her grandmothers funeral (19 years ago), a long stemmed thingy with leaves that came from my Mom's funeral (6 yrs ago today), a spider plant that has been restarted many times from its offspring, and a plant from Canada that grows huge red flowers from an approx. 3 1/2" round bulb. I've "killed" them all several times from neglect, but they keep coming back. ..."My Mom's funeral (6 yrs ago today)"...never realized it was today until I went to look it up in the Bible. :B Send pictures of the plants and flowers. Maybe we can identify them for you and tell you how to care for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted January 9, 2010 Author Share Posted January 9, 2010 Losing someone close is one of the terrible things about this life. You have to make good new memories about them. This is the first year since Mom died in 1997 that I've put up a tree, and it's outside alondside the driveway and main road so others can enjoy it too. We still have it lit because we're enjoying it so much. It reminds me of when we went to the top of Boones Mountain to see my grandmother. Her house was way back a lane so you could see it long before you got there. The Christmas tree went up before Thanksgiving and stayed up till after Easter so that it and the gifts were there whenever family came home through the holidays. Sometimes it had NO needles at the end but the lights were still on and they were the "barn burner" type. We often couldn't see the Grandma's house across the field when we turned in the lane but you sure could see that tree glowing on the sunporch. I remember her everytime I look out through our big front window and see the tree twinkling and shining. So, this is a good memory of Grandma and of my Mother who braved drifts almost as high as the car windows to get us there. Those old cars were so heavy that they were like snowplows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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