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If you stumbled among this site, "Evelyn’s Twigs, Thyme and Stranger Things Gardens" 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.

Saturday, June 20, 2026

Wow! Fred, Six Years Later

 Hello, Darlings

Remember this rooftop twig that I potted back on November 19, 2020. 

Fred in 2019, a hurricane refugee
Bottom left

Meet Fred, the Oak Tree??? Nope, Fred The Indian Laurel.

Well as you know I have the habit of naming things, and so I named this plant Fred. Fred is an Indian Laurel tropical tree that is native to Taiwan, Australis and China. It made its first appearance in Florida in the early 20th century as an aesthetic landscape tree, and as you can see from Fred's rooftop beginnings, the tree is very adaptable and it grows well as an outdoor potted plant.  I am stressing outdoor because Fred is very susceptible to thrips, which you do not want in your house with your normal houseplants. I found that Sevin is the good treatment to control the thrips.

FRED  11.19.2021


Fred as a six years old potted Plants


Until next time,

     Keep Growing!

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