This Valley of White Violets

 

Lives many giants.

What The?

  

Garden Art installation Feb2022

 

Giving is some space .... so it can    BBBBBBREEEEEEEATHHHHHHH

I can almost hear the winds of  Jupiter's  Red   Storm

Boy Do We Have Geckos

 We got them in their night clothes.  Do I hear echos of 'The Emperor's New Clothes'

get some clothes on, you clown.

And we have them in their day clothes too.

                                              Snazzy!

My Angel IS Blooming

 

 

Classic Angel Begonia....classic bloom. 

 

Now now, there's no reason for my two very own Guarding and or Gardening Angels to be jealous.

It's True, It's Really True

 I had purchased this Orchid two years ago and needless to say it caught my eye.

 

It's commanding architecture, that overachiever to the left. That's what happens when

you find a really good orchid fertilizer and use it to push the orchid  to do it's best.

All a while thinking, hey if it's base and foundation can do this what are the possibilities that 

the flower, most times, the star of the show could do something just as spectacular.

 

Until I saw this, how much more un-orchid bud could this orchid be. I then recall  my conversation

with the breeder of said orchid. Telling him I admire the plant itself and then something to the 

effect, this won't be known for it's bloom, if it blooms at all.

Fair enough...Sold!   Two years later I spy this mangy looking buds? Speaking of architecture,

someone forgot the structures, mass and room for anything that might support something

orchid like.

Seriously, no regrets. I even went out on our dark night to bring it in to see what might of

become of these, wimpy buds...to my amazement....all dried out and not bigger but smaller

than what they looked like in the above photo. 

That little sprout at the bottom left of the pot, is now the tallest shoot and with it's signature

additional twin leaves making it's way into the world.

 

Wow, wow, and another Wow.    They are on their way of becoming the Sequoias of the orchid 

world...hehe. 

This  specimen, might have left out on the orchid but has gained tremendously on the infrastructure.

Prequel to Look What I Found

 The day of discovery....first sighting. Like and Iceberg, you got to look below to see it's mass.

I know, who knew, Jabba the Hut has nothing on this fat boy.

First impressions, is this one of our native Florida yams? Until I saw this psuedobulb.

 

If that wasn't enough, there was this orchid like flower *pointer finger for scale and focus* .

Now we are getting closer to being able to find what plant this might be.

A couple of weeks ago I went to one of our city's garden plant sale and they did not disapoint.

One of the vendors had some specimens, what's called Pachypodiums, not unlike the psuedobulb

shown above.  Pachypodiums was something that lept through my mind, however remote the 

possibility would be. We live in a  world where speciesof all sorts can land on our doorsteps if 

you will and take hold, so why not a Pachy.

Most things in this world has a name and I was able to sus out a name from my relatively quick

search on the internet and who's name will not cross this page.

Finally

planted my Coontie seeds.  Yes, I confess that this planting while not during a full moon,

it was under the cover of darkness....hehe. Sun shade on top to help it thru our dry season

and help retain some of the moisture it will get from my rain barrel.

Just yesterday, the few remaining seeds that I had and was too not going to skin the seeds

of their fleshy coatings. Got tossed into my back forty for the squirrels to make do with what

they do.

Two experiments, traditional and nature, will have to wait and see what transpires.

Look what I Created

 my very own Sky Staghorn Fern.

 Not it's best side.

This is it's first iteration. Not satisfied after looking at this perched beauty, with some

concerns of it getting scorched by our mid Winter sun, due to the leafless state of it 's

perch.

 

                  Like a good sculpture, this has one good angle, but still, not my vision I

had in my mind.

 

Now we are talking, while it almost look like it's not only hovering, with the obvious

assistance.   Like is has a purpose and what's to take off in flight, if not already in flight.

 

Look forward to how it will mass out on to the tree and become even more

                    spectacular.

 

 

Look What I Found

...one more uninvited guest and it has a name. I still can't believe I found it in mins.

doing an internet search, which is rare these days with most search engines reconfigured

to exploit than to educate...IMO.

                        Eulophia graminea

Front and centered for all to see. Perhaps meaningless without a photo to go along with said 

Latin words.

The mystique in it's discovery and my first impressions and then second guessing all

falls under the beauty and wonder of being a constant gardener.

 

Welcome to the grotesque and yet beautiful, along with the horror of what it is capable of doing.

No worse that what us humans have done.

 

Needless to say it will go in the proper receptacle for proper disposal after I admire it's beauty

for a few more days, indoors, under lights where it can't escape and do what it naturally

has to do.....and that is survive and thrive.     Just not here, under my watch. Where there's 

one , well needless to say there must be others.

Look it up to see what a monster it is in the invasive world. Category 2 invasive here in Florida

for starters.