We had some nice weather this spring, so I brought my plant outside to soak up some sun. Bad idea. It sunburned so bad that it dropped ...Read Moreall of it's leaves and died back to about a foot of stem. After that the good weather went away, and got down into the 30s. I figured it was dead, but I guess 30s isn't low enough to kill the stem even with pacific northwest wet weather. I think I'll keep it in a pot though, just in case it snows next winter.
I have been trying to find out the name of this plant for 4 years now. I have always thought it was a cactus but a friend of mine told m...Read Moree today it was an African Milk Plant. I rescued him from WalMart and put him in a pot and he has been growing every since. He is now up to 6'7" tall and is very difficult to move.
water moderate in the summer keep dry in the winter water once a month or less if you cut there shoots off put them in soil wright away ...Read Morethey will root
I have had this plant since 1981 but never knew the name until yesterday when my sister from Los Gatos, CA discovered it to be Synadenium...Read More grantii (African milk bush). I made some cuttings last year and let them root in water vases and gave them away to neighbors and officemates. I named it "birchot" (blessing in Hebrew). My plant is in the soil of my front porch, my mom's is in a pot in her front porch, the cuttings in the office are in water vases. ALL their foliage look different. The cuttings are easy to grow though. I just found out yesterday that the milky sap is poisonous. But I still love my plant.
I totally commented on the wrong milk plant. Dang it. I have two huge ones in my living room.
We had some nice weather this spring, so I brought my plant outside to soak up some sun. Bad idea. It sunburned so bad that it dropped ...Read More
I have been trying to find out the name of this plant for 4 years now. I have always thought it was a cactus but a friend of mine told m...Read More
water moderate in the summer keep dry in the winter water once a month or less if you cut there shoots off put them in soil wright away ...Read More
I have had this plant since 1981 but never knew the name until yesterday when my sister from Los Gatos, CA discovered it to be Synadenium...Read More