As this Desert Rose wakes up from it's dream, well, my dream of it needing some guidance, ok, scaffolding.
Then awakens and realizes that it's not a dream but a living daymare.
several times a year, it could be worse.
Amongst the greenery is a Memorial White Crape Myrtle that started off as cutting/props that was going to be a potted macro bonsai.
As life would have it, things change and lives end as in my case a childhood friend past earlier this year and another artist friend past
away this month and will now known to myself as the Danny 'T' memorial to a life of many things and interests and one of those
interests was the art of gardening.
Blooming in full tilt.
of rocks not a pile of rocks?
When it's an outcrop!
Last two pics are the winner of 'How can you make a pile of rocks...not a pile rocks!
Three inch diameter and nearly an inch thick, it's no wonder bamboo makes great scaffolding.
Now I got that, I want to pick me Dragon off my list...hehe.
version of a plant based Winter Florida snow, but also a plant based Summer snow.
Exhibit 'A' White Crape Myrtle gives us a dusting of it's blossoms and like the real snow, when it lingers it turns instead of gray
and or black. This Florida snowfall can turn a tannish brown, similar to the brown spent leaves you see in the picture that were cut
back before their time by a Florida fungus. These blossoms have been open long enough so when a slight breeze can give us that
snow globe effect.
While the mid-west has their plant based Summer snow with their Cottonwood trees.
We to here in Florida can be witnesses to this mimicker of the Winter season phenomenon.
