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If you stumbled among this site, "Evelyn’s Twigs, Thyme and Stranger Things Garden" is a collection of journal entries that I have kept on my computer for years, and have now decided to post. The journal contains my successes and failures with my favorite selections of plants. I'm talking about more than 50 years of caring for and living with green things. Not everything is here. More of it is learned and store in my head. However, here I will share facts about each plants, my research, as well as my personal and gathered tips on their care. I was not planning to post my houseplant and backyard journals online, so editing them for errors was not a priority to me. This being the case, perhaps, one day I will correct all the spelling and grammar errors in both of them. We would not want people to think I did not know better, when I was only being lazy. Again, no apologizes. It is what it is for now.

Sunday, June 2, 2024

Evelyn’s Indoor Garden: ‘Gardening Indoors under Artificial Lights’ Journal Entry 06/02/2024

06/02/2024 –Today I am posting an image of the sago palm that we have owned for four years. Usually when the plant sprout new fronds I cut them off, but this year I decides to leave them on and show how well the sago palm grows under the plant lights. Whenever these fronds shoot up we think of plant life on an imaginary alien planet -- John Carter's Mars.

New Sago palm fromds 06/03/2024
 
Schefflera Amate 06/03/2023
 

 Wintergreen Weeping Fig Tree – Ficus xutting and parents 06/03/2024

In addition, the Schefflera Amate that I bought back in March because is growing well under just the plant lights, and of the four cutting from the Wintergreen Weeping Fig Tree – Ficus”, that I was propagating only one rooted. The photos above shows it size (19 inches) in comparison to its parent (43 inches). Because these plants look better with multiple branches, I will try propagating more of them too group together in the future.


The photo above shows my dehydrator that is drying some mint and basil leaves, which are being places in the jars as the leaves dry to a crispy state but not burned.