Ah sorry Beckie. For some reason I thought it was a spa.

And Jenna, yes it is indeed a cactus garden combined with a chocolate factory.

Body image issues Jenna. Classic.
Ohh the period excuse is a good one!
I haven't had a period in 9 years but they don't know that (obviously, would be a bit weird if they did)


The cactus garden thing sounds awesome!

Unpacking can sometimes be fun for a short period. But procrastinate away if it suits you, Alison!

Someone on Fb was saying there's a poison plants garden (don't know where) full of deadly plants and you can get a tour of it but some people pass out because of the fumes. I'd rather go to the cactus garden chocolate factory.

Yes i have heard of that garden!
I wonder if they have a gift shop
But yes,.cactus garden chocolate factory sounds a lot friendlier!

Poison plant gardens are often just over hyped to be honest. They mostly contain very normal every day plants that no one realises are poisonous.

Except you, because you’re a massive plant geek :P

Do you grow any poisonous plants at your work?

Yep! Loads.

Cool!

Random question, what's your favourite plant of all time?

That's an impossible question to answer.

I have a couple of favourite trees of all time though - Sequoiadendron giganteum and Wollemia nobilis.

You've got nothing to do today so I'll leave you to research what's cool about them =P

NP, I assume they have a use even though they’re poisonous to us?

I think I've seen those trees about!
No idea what they were called though obviously!

You might have seen Sequoiadendrons around. The Wollemi pine is a bit more unusual.

Alison - yep, poisonous plants are often just highly ornamental. Like foxgloves, daffodils, tulips, lillies... You'd just have to be bloody stupid to eat one. =P

I'm on my laptop now so here comes the plant word vomit.

And what's really interesting is that quite often the plant is used for something edible, maybe the leaves or, as a specific example, Ricinus - it's grown as an ornamental annual, we get caster oil from from the seeds which we ingest (not for food, mind), but the seed itself is highly poisonous. We have to wear gloves when we sow them at work.

That's pretty cool!
I wonder how people found out they could use bits of plant for certain things but not to ingest them
Hell of a lot of trial and error?!

I guess it's the same with herbs and edible flowers and medicinal plants and how to make paper or papyrus or cotton. People are clever when they want to be!

Very true!
In the grand scheme of things, we have come a very long way very fast

Technology wise, yes. But people have been utilising plants for various uses for thousands of years.

The best plants are the ones that can be smoked!!!! Woop, woop!!!
#sorrynotsorry

That's true.
It's pretty amazing!

Haha! Yes zurg!
Though i will refrain from commenting further as i already got an infraction once upon a time for discussing illegal activity. Or something like that. XD

Naughty Kat!

I still haven't done anything about getting my forget me not seeds planted.

Have you got all the stuff to plant them?

Yeah, if I'm planting them in a pot just don't know if they should be outside or inside. I've done research but taken nothing in. Just need to focus and get it done some time.

I think you need NP's plant expertise!

oooh, I know one, pick me pick me pick me!! (Is it a surprise to anyone that I was that kid at school?? Rhubarb is an example right??

Lol, I'm off to stalk to see what that infraction was now :P

I just did some gardening myself so feel that is quite relevant to the current discussion.

It was yeeeaaarrss ago now jenna!
I can't even remember what it was for!

I hate gardening.
I think i was forced to do it too much in various hospital admissions
Damn OTs

I hate gardening too.

And I've just learned something new about rhubarb.

Gold star for Jenna.

Oh and Lindsay, you could probably put your seeds inside or outside. Inside might be better on a sunnyish windowsill.

I was thinking about getting some houseplants.
I like having flowers on my windowsill but obviously they die.
Trouble is, i can barely keep myself alive, let alone a houseplant! Lol

Surprisingly Beckie, a plant is often much less complicated to keep alive than a person. Just sayin'. Also as a bonus info, a lot of plants these days come with an instruction as to how to best care for them :-)

And i wasn't talking about anything illegal up there . I was more thinking in the lines of tobacco. Which has not yet been known for causing people to become seriously mental ;-)
(Unless of course you try to stop them from lighting up their fags!!!)

I'll have to have a look around for a suitable plant!

Of course you weren't zurg ;p
But yes, when i got put in hospital i used to go mental when they wouldn't let me out for a cigarette!
But tbf, back when i smoked (around 5½ years ago) you could still smoke in the gardens of psych wards rather than having to have leave to go off site to smoke.

I don’t mind gardening, but I moved to a flat where all the gardening etc is done by a factor and I just pay a fee for them to do it. Much easier, although factor fees are expensive!

I can imagine!
My neighbour cuts my grass for free so can't complain!

In Denmark you're still allowed to smoke in hospital. They tried to ban it, hell broke loose and they had to backtrack on that decision. Probably a wise decision.

An orchid is a pretty easy going plant Beckie.

I had a garden once. I loved being able to go outside. But i hated keeping the garden neat!!!! I had a tree in my garden. I lived there for almost 3 years and not until the very end did i discover what kind of tree when it grew one single damn fine looking pear :D

Yeah i remember when it was first banned.
It was not good at all!
I think there's a time and a place to get people to quit smoking, a psych ward when people are unwell is not a good time or place!

Orchids are pretty!

I'm not a fan of fruit trees!
We had an orchard (apples and plums) where the family used to live and all the fruit would fall and if you didn't keep on top of it, it was wasp central!!

The fact that I'm alive, amongst the (what I imagine to be) literal forests worth of plants I have tried to raise, and simply murdered, makes me doubt this assertion...

I guess I'll never know until i try!

Succulents.

I have heard succulents are pretty hardy!

The lump on my gum has reappeared.
I am rather annoyed about it

Meat eating plant!!! Feed it all the annoying people in your life and you're both absolutely sorted!!!

Also Elmer, attempting to keep anything alive sometimes requires a certain practise amount. A reasonable waste is expected!!! No, i am not evil!!! Just currently armed with coffee and unsupervised….!!

Hell no!
I've seen little shop of horrors!

FEED ME SEYMOUR

DON'T FEED THE PLANTS!

We watched it last Christmas
My sister (17 at the time) was snuggled next to my mum and hiding behind her saying 'nooo i don't like it!' For the majority of the movie

Now I have 'Suddenly Seymour' stuck in my head :plain:

EDIT: My sister did Little Shop of Horrors as a play in primary school

I named my first houseplant Audrey after Little Shop of Horrors =D

Also I disagree with many of Zurg's plant care statements above but cba to correct. >.>

I have Don't Feed The Plants stuck in my head now :crying:
It's maybe an improvement on the Ronald McDonald song that was stuck in my head earlier?

Seems a little inappropriate for primary school!

I did a summer drama school when i was a kid and we did one of the songs from little shop of horrors (can't remember which one)
I was the main person in that one. Right at the front, in the middle!

Morning everyone

Morning Beckie! What's on your schedule for today?