On 25/3/07 10:07, in article , "Carol
Hague" wrote:
Sacha wrote:
On 24/3/07 20:22, in article , "Carol
Hague" wrote:
Well mostly, but ants did once build a nest in one of my (indoor) plant
pots, pushing the incumbent several inches upward in the process!
Made them fairly easy to evict though :-)
I think I'd have had to build a glass wall around that and observed it! I
have never heard of them doing that but was it in UK?
Yes - Wells in Somerset. Would have been around 1994/5.
We were living in a rented house that was quite cold and damp (it had no
heating system of its own, we had to buy electric radiators), so they
probably thought they were still outdoors :-)
Can't remember what plant was in the pot, but it was probably a cactus
or succulent as I had quite a few of those at the time.
That would figure because it would mean the compost was dry.
Still have a few
but had to get rid of lots of our houseplants a couple of moves ago when
most of our stuff was in storage for months :-(
I tend to just kill them - I suppose it saves space..... ;-(
I have two tiny Easter cacti (maybe Christmas ones, I don't know!) in a pot
on a window sill and have watered them which is, I think, probably the worst
thing I could have done. The poor things keep trying to flower and whatever
I'm doing makes the flowers wither and drop off!
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Sacha
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South Devon
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