u/Kelpie_Bijou

New to this subreddit and hoping this is the right place to post!

My string of hearts is flowering (yay) but it has also dropped loads of leaves and 2 vines have completely died. So its long and mostly bald until you get to the ends which still have lots of leaves and about half a dozen flowers.

I'm confused about what to do about this situation, it's flowering so it must be happy but it looks like it's dying. I'm thinking about repotting into a smaller pot now that its more sparce so I really just want to get it right. Please give me as much advice on how to get it to thrive again as possible! This summer has been awful for my plants, I've lost a miniature rose that I was planning to move outdoors and my peace lily has managed to scorch a load of leaves but is now flowering and putting out lots more leaves so hopefully good signs. My rubber plant also had a weird growth complication so I need to chop the top off and I really dont want to lose anymore plants.

If anyone has a good source for bladderworts or butterworts please also let me know because the fungus gnats this year are driving me crazy!

Thank you for taking the time to read!

Hi I hope someone can help reduce my anxiety ahead of a family trip. We are a family of 5 (3 young kids) so I like to have all information I might possibly need before travelling to make it a bit smoother for us. We have used LNER plenty times but always direct trains.

Next week we are going to Hull for a couple days from Newcastle, tickets are purchased and everything booked. However I just realised I have very short connection times for the trains and I have no idea what the stations look like where the connections are.

We arrive at Doncaster at 10:16 via LNER service and get the northern service departing at 10:24, is this station easy to navigate in this time with 3 young kids + a suitcase and limited experience of travelling via train?

The return journey we arive in York at 16:01 via northern service and get the LNER service departing at 16:19. Same questions as previous.

Anything we should be aware of or tips to make this journey go smoothly? When booking tickets it said seat reservations aren't available on the northern trains, are these usually busy or will we be able to at least gets seats for the kids? We are not travelling with a pushchair/buggy and the youngest is 3.

Thank you for reading!