Botanical Bits
01 Jun
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First published 1st June 2025
Botanical Bits
Botanical name: Smallanthus sonchifolius
Family: Asteraceae (the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family: includes daisies, sunflowers, Curio sp. succulents)
Growth: Herbaceous (no woody stems)
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06 May
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First published 6th May 2025
On Bulbs
“Bulb” in the botany world has a very precise meaning — it is the underground stem (yes, stem) of a plant, made of fleshy leaves and used for food storage during dormancy.
A bulb is an organ. Other plant or..
07 Apr
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First published 7th April 2025
Air-Pot containers are the original and the best air-pruning containers around, and here you’ll learn how to get the most out of them, visually!
Everything below is also on The Air-Pot System: Diagrams and ..
30 Mar
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First published 30th March 2025
Introduction to the Air-Pot Bonsai Training Pot
Air-Pot® bonsai training pots are phenomenal containers designed specifically for bonsai enthusiasts:
• their sq..
29 Mar
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First published 29th March 2025
Using an Air-Pot® requires a different approach to that of regular pots, and I wrote of this here.
In this older post I mentioned how quite a bit of medium will fall through the bottom until a natural bridge form..
09 Mar
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First published 9th March 2025
One night I grabbed a normal-sized garlic bulb for dinner, and found it to be impossible to separate any cloves from it — the entire bulb turned out to be a single clove!
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06 Mar
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(This article was originally published 5th March 2025 here on our Jujube Tree Nursery site.)
First published here 6th March 2025.
[Here I wrote about making your own cactus/succulent mix], which isn’t relevant [to the Jujube Tree Nursery site]...
02 Feb
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(This article was originally published 21st January 2025 here on our Jujube Tree Nursery site.)
First published here 2nd February 2025.
Last December hubby and I had a wonderful time exploring the NSW Riverina area. If we hadn’t parked where we..
02 Feb
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First published 2nd February 2025
Just as I am a sucker for succulents, I am also a sucker for pretty much anything variegated, and couldn’t help but bring this baby home the other day from a garden plant sale!
There was no label, the people wh..
19 Jan
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First published 19th January 2025
Should you ever get sticker shock looking to buy succulent potting medium in bulk, and you think “It really is about time I made my own”, then maybe this post is for you!
Please note that I’m talking about bulk..
19 Jan
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(This article was originally published 18th August 2020 here on our Jujube Tree Nursery site.)
First published here 19th January 2025.
Microbes Generally
‘Microbes’ means ‘germs’ to most people, and yet maybe one in a billion microbial species ..
18 Jan
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First published 18th January 2025
I am a sucker for all things ‘succulent’. ‘Succulent’ being a very broad definition in botany of any plant that has fleshy leaves or other parts which store water.
‘Succulent’ comes from the French succulent, w..