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Hello and Happy New Year! My holiday was relaxing, I joined some friends for a glass of Prosecco then was in my pajamas by ten on the couch. I think the holiday can be fun in warm weather climates but it’s been raining so much here all I wanted was to stay indoors.

Easing back into regular content, you can expect more of the same from me this year. More space reveals, DIY projects, resource roundups, travel stories, and other reflections on life thrown into the mix. I’m headed back to Florida at the end of the week to ready the house for a tenant. We are renting the house from the middle of January through May so I need to finish up a few projects before that happens. While our family was at the house during Thanksgiving, I remodeled the electric fireplace and added woven chairs and a coffee

Lantana urticoides (lan-TAN-a ur-tih-KOY-deez)  is a plant member of the Verbena (Verbenaceae) household.

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It has many names, and chances are you’ll hear it known as:

• Lantana horrida var. latibracteata
• Lantana urticoides var. hispidula
• Lantana hispida
• Lantana horrida
• Lantana scorta
• Lantana notha

The vegetation’ frequent names are Texas Lantana or Calico Bush. Though most members of this plant household are tropical, Calico Bush is a Texas native. It additionally grows wild in Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico.

This perennial, compact (2’ to six’ toes excessive and broad) spreading shrub grows naturally in woodlands and brushy areas. Nevertheless, this extremely adaptable plant can develop fortunately alongside roadsides, gravelly settings, open fields, thickets, and swamps.

Texas Lantana’s squarish stems and twigs are coated with flaky grayish-brown bark. Older vegetation develop thorns.

The vegetation’ leaves and younger stems are fragrant and a bit furry, and like its a number of verbena

Relating to fiddle leaf figs, they’re fairly straightforward vegetation to take care of. Nonetheless, to assist keep their development and well being, getting the proper pot on your Ficus is essential. The fiddle leaf fig does finest in a container with drainage holes and is tight or cosy. They’ll deal with totally different supplies and shapes.

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What’s most essential with regards to a pot on your fiddle leaf fig is giving it the correct amount of drainage so there isn’t any standing water. All through this text, we’ll go over the most effective pots for a fiddle leaf plant to keep up its optimum well being whereas additionally including aesthetics to your house and your tree.

What Planters Work Finest For A Fiddle Leaf Fig?

Plastic Planters

Plastic planters with drainage holes that permit water to run via can be good for a fiddle leaf fig.

Plastic planters don’t

There are lots of pests that may make a multitude in your backyard. Some drain the sap out of your leaves, and others chew them up. Some even devour the roots, killing your crops from the bottom up.

Of those many pests, deer are one of many ones that some individuals would possibly by no means encounter whereas others cope with them all through the rising season.

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So what do you do if you wish to develop geraniums in a location the place deer are widespread?

Do Deer Eat Geraniums?

The excellent news is that deer aren’t enormous followers of geraniums. Nonetheless, they’ll nonetheless go after your geranium crops below sure circumstances.

When Gained’t Deer Eat Geraniums?

Geraniums have a number of qualities deer don’t like. The scent of geraniums is highly effective to their delicate noses.

In the meantime, the style of geraniums may be very bitter and

Glyphosate [N-(phosphonomethyl) glycine] is the principle ingredient in Roundup and comparable herbicide merchandise.

Typically talking, once you apply a product containing glyphosate, you possibly can count on to see gradual yellowing and wilting of the offending vegetation’ leaves over the subsequent few days, however in some circumstances, it might take so long as three weeks.

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Data discovered on Roundup’s web site signifies that the majority of their merchandise designed to be used on weeds and undesirable grasses will present some outcomes inside a number of hours.

Nevertheless, these designed towards extra cussed vegetation (e.g., powerful perennial weeds) might take so long as 12 hours to begin working.

You’ll want to rigorously learn the labels of any glyphosate-containing product you might be contemplating. For greatest outcomes and security, all the time observe instructions carefully.

Roundup & Glyphosate Q&A

1. How lengthy has glyphosate been in use?

The chemical was developed