Horticultural Bits
30 Mar
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Title image above was created by Kristi Ellinopoullos from images copyright © The Caledonian Tree Co. Ltd
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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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
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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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
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!
copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
copyrig..
06 Mar
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
(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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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
First published 2nd February 2025
These are hedge bags, I love them to bits, and have them everywhere!
And if you think they’re being used to dump garden waste then you are almost correct!
copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
The smaller one is 40..
02 Feb
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
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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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
(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 ..
19 Jan
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
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..
18 Jan
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
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..
28 Sep
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Title image above is copyright © The Caledonian Tree Co. Ltd
First published 28th September 2024
Using an Air-Pot® requires a different approach to that of regular pots, and doing this ensures you get the most out of your Air-Pot®. This approach concerns:
the growing medium;
watering, and;
nutrie..
15 Mar
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Title image above is copyright © Optimate Group Pty Ltd
(This article was originally published 15th October 2019 here on our Jujube Tree Nursery site.)
First published here 15th March 2023.
Have you ever repotted a plant and wondered why the bottom of the potting mix is so incredibly saturated com..
03 Mar
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Title image above is attributed to Oregon Department of Forestry, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
First published 3rd March 2023
Backstory
I first heard of biochar maybe back in the early 2000s. It sounded really, really interesting, but I was somewhat ..