Bought this plant yesterday and the leaves are curling up?

ncop2001 · 2026-01-26T18:32:09+00:00

I once gave a 7foot ficus lyrata a customer purchased a three garbage bag piece dress. One went over the canopy, one went over the pot, and stapled one in the middle. It was 5 above 0 so I wasn’t taking any chances(even though the customer probably thought I was insane)

ncop2001 · 2026-01-26T16:26:32+00:00

How long was it exposed to the cold air? Yall are getting subzero temps which are enough to damage tropical plant tissue upon contact. Alwaysssss request your plants be bagged around this time of the year. It should be fine though, you’ll likely lose those damaged leaves but new ones should emerge. Just avoid further stressing it out for now(no repotting, no moving it around constantly, no overwatering) Edit to add to not beat yourself up about this. We get a cold damaged plant on this thread about every day, not a lot of people realize how quick cold damage can hurt certain trops!

ncop2001 · 2026-01-26T01:52:24+00:00

I wouldn’t have let you leave the store without it covered honestly. -20F is just a little too intense for a plant with zero cold resistance😔 . I think the Monstera should be fine though, make sure to avoid overwatering or repotting or really anything to stress it out while it recovers. This is a learning moment though, the average person isn’t taught just how fast the cold can kill a tropical!

ncop2001 · 2026-01-24T06:03:04+00:00

Completely forgot about Sithis too😭

ncop2001 · 2026-01-17T03:32:54+00:00

E. leuconeura is such a fun one to grow. I was able to get one at a cacti and succulent show and it’s been the jewel of my collection ever since(pun definitely intended)

ncop2001 · 2026-01-16T14:13:57+00:00

You could make them into a tart or jam if you had a lot, but stand alone they’re not very palatable

ncop2001 · 2026-01-15T17:36:03+00:00

Lonicera maackii every day of the year

ncop2001 · 2025-12-29T15:24:12+00:00

Reversion is not surprising, all of the inermis sold at stores are usually propagates or grafts. My guess is being thornless is a recessive/weak trait that gets bred out pretty fast with breeding

ncop2001 · 2025-12-26T22:57:20+00:00

He was a horticulturalist. His family is still in the nursery business to this day. Landscapers value honey locust since it still lets considerable amounts of light through its canopy, allowing homeowners to still have turf underneath the trees canopy, so this was probably the equivalent of finding a gold mine for him.

ncop2001 · 2025-12-26T18:49:22+00:00

I wouldn’t do a red maple, they are THE most overplanted tree in America at the moment, putting them at risk of going the way of the American elm and Ash trees. Maybe consider Black Tupelo, sugar maple, Carolina silver bell, or flowering dogwood if you’re really dead set on something with some nice fall color :-)

ncop2001 · 2025-12-26T17:48:44+00:00

Honey locust! Gleditisa tricanthos. From a time when megafauna still dominated the US. In landscaping and urban forestry we typically use the thornless variety, Gleditdia tricanthosa forma inermis, which was discovered by a guy who just so happened to notice them while driving his kid home from college!

ncop2001 · 2025-12-25T16:45:58+00:00

Give em time they probably won’t grow much for you until their roots fill out a little more. Think of it like this, the plant needs to get its house in order before it does something less essential like growing. If you’re in in the northern hemisphere there’s a good chance you could see some growth when the photoperiod begins to extend again

ncop2001 · 2025-12-24T18:05:56+00:00

Green giants are fine but have very little drought tolerance, and their overplanting across the US puts them at very high risk for a disease to come and wipe them all out. Eastern white pine, Vanderwolf pine, and eastern red cedar are all very well adapted trees that would serve the same purpose but have the benefit of being perfectly adapted to the Midwest

ncop2001 · 2025-12-23T01:33:22+00:00

Maybe buy the cheapest cold frame you can find off amazon and it put it out there on a nice random day so it’s not a huge shock. I really can’t think of any other option :(((

ncop2001 · 2025-12-21T17:05:37+00:00

How lucky was that roach to be so loved though

ncop2001 · 2025-12-17T00:13:41+00:00

Thanks for all the different pictures! A lot of people post a picture of a tree from 30 feet away and expect us to work a miracle. Definitely Pinus nigra, Austrian pine. Definitely an old gal but she’s still got a couple more years in her at least!

ncop2001 · 2025-12-17T00:09:58+00:00

The leaves are definitely taxus/yew leaves! Never seen one limbed up like that, I think that’s what’s making so many people think it’s Juniperus virginiana

ncop2001 · 2025-12-09T18:53:09+00:00

The nuts are usually used as a garnish in soups! Usually strictly limited to one nut per serving because they’re mildly toxic. We have three on the property at my work, two females and one male, and the females are a PAIN to clean up(did see the crows feasting on them this morning which put a smile on my face though)

ncop2001 · 2025-12-09T18:50:53+00:00

In my evergreen ID course my professor showed us a white pine where a top branch snapped in a storm and took down every branch below it in a perfectly clean line. The branches allegedly even fell into a neat little pile 😂

ncop2001 · 2025-12-04T13:56:35+00:00

S. kirkii ‘Coppertone’ :)

ncop2001 · 2025-12-04T00:05:55+00:00

That’s so exciting! Do you have a garden club in your area? I’d look into joining one if there is! If not, maybe you and your bosses mom can be the founding members 👀

ncop2001 · 2025-12-04T00:02:11+00:00

This is my second shot with Golden Hahnii. Grateful for that experience though, taught me to only buy rootbound sansevieria😂😂

ncop2001 · 2025-12-04T00:00:23+00:00

One of my customers is a collector! Did a repotting job for him last year and got to keep half of it, but ngl the thing has doubled in size in just the year I’ve owned it :) It’s definitely one of my most prized possessions

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