Got this plant as a housewarming gift last year and it’s blooming for the first time!

  • Flying Squid
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    61 year ago

    Beautiful. My mother always grew them and, growing up in Indiana, they were grown indoors (they’re not fans of cold). Then I moved to L.A. and my first day on the job, I see a row of African Violets planted outside the building. I was just stunned.

      • Flying Squid
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        11 year ago

        We had a grapefruit tree in one backyard and a key lime tree in another in the places where we lived. Never got an orange tree sadly, but there were lots of opportunities to get fresh oranges. Avocados too.

        • taurentipper
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          21 year ago

          Jealousy intensifies I had a crab apple tree in my yard when I was a kid, I guess they theoretically might be edible?

    • 70ms
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      11 year ago

      In L.A.?! What part? Maybe down by the coast? 🤔 My part of the city is just too hot and dry in the summer. We get down to single digit humidity when the Santa Anas roll through, and well over 100 degrees a lot of days in the summer. I would have thought we’re just too warm for them here.

      • Flying Squid
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        21 year ago

        Hollywood. Raleigh studios. They had them all along the outside.

        • 70ms
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          21 year ago

          Interesting! I suppose if they got enough shade and water they could handle the ambient air conditions. :)

          • Flying Squid
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            31 year ago

            Alternately, they leave them there until they die and replant them. That just occurred to me and it’s the sort of wasteful thing the entertainment industry does.

            • 70ms
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              21 year ago

              TBH I had the same thought; there are entire companies that will just rotate the plants out for businesses.

              btw, I think I recognize you from reddit! :)

              • Flying Squid
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                21 year ago

                Probably. I was a power user there. No more though. Sorry, I wish I remembered you.

                • 70ms
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                  21 year ago

                  Yeah, I’m leaving a lot behind too. It’s fine; platforms come and go. Once a couple of communities I follow over there have active Lemmy equivalents I won’t be back much at all.

                  • SpaceBarM
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                    11 year ago

                    Create them here, add content, soon you will get help.