Cabbage Palm – Sabal Palmetto Palm's First Bloom - Revisited

While doing some garden detailing yesterday, a new scent caught my attention.

I will have to check tomorrow morning to see if the fragrance is more pronounce.
Otherwise this evening's scent was subtle and yet it reminded me of a northerner's
familiar and favorite, the Lilac bush.












I wonder just how many Floridians have actually experienced this fragrance?

Urban Container Farming Refresh

Something spanking brand new. I think these are the new mini
San Manzano cherry tomato, which I picked out of a local
Thai BBQ's salad buffet.

Verses planting a brand new cutting from a tried and true
Turkish tomato planted along side their heir parent.

The planter on the left is the Everglade berry sized tomato. I trimmed that back
heavily about a week and a half ago and it's sprouting back quite readily.

All of these containers get a refresh with a top dressing of some fresh compost,
garden lime and some store bought Mr. Earth organic vegetable fertilizer.
Tomorrow I will give them a drench of liquid fish emulsion fertilizer mixed
with my over abundance of stored rainwater.

Trim away the old and barren and encourage renewed growth, given all the essentials.

I hope this year old Banana pepper plant can thrive through another hot and
humid season.

Tadpole's Day Twenty-Eight - Hind Legs Are Sprouting And Front Legs

There will always be a first, whether it be first spotted or to be actually
the first.

A toast to the first, in this case a piece of sprouted bread to celebrate
their next stage to their next transition to freedom.

Big Blue's - Day 86

Flowers are still in the development stage. Took this picture as it began to
rain and still managed to salvage the shot.

Tadpole's Day Twenty-Six - Hind Legs Are Sprouting

There are a about a handful of tadpoles that are developing their hind legs.

Their first meal today is some freshly sliced fresh spinach.

 

The tadpole at the bottom center of the pic was the first time

I spied their developing legs, a couple of days ago.

 

What Was IT Thinking - Tadpole Jumps Out Not Once But Twice?

 Checking up on these tadpoles after their last feeding
and only to find this foreign to the eye exhibit. Having
seen this iridescent belly on occasion when this variety
of tadpole swims belly up. Realizing that it may still
have some life, knowing they are mouth breathers.

Belly up and for the world to see. This tadpole must of
took a dare. There's got to be more than these three cups
of rainwater, frog waste and a limited diet.

Seeing it's jeweled belly I proceeded to dip my finger in
some water and placed this still life. Only to watch it
spring into locomotion. Ran indoors to get a piece of
culinary tissue, as in bathroom tissue that so happens
to be in the kitchen. Blotted it's ass up and back to whence
it came from. Not more than seconds goes by that another
decides to make a dive to an unknown destination. That
was not as easy to retrieve. That one made it back to it's
confines also. I took out some water so as not to give
the others the same idea. Because the next one or two
may not be that lucky.

Last/Late Bloom - Amryilla

Middle of June and what a pleasant shock to see one of these late winter,
early spring flowers still hanging around. I know for a fact that they
did wrap up blooming so to see this bloom throw up a flower this late
in it's season was all that more of a surprise.