Fifteen Hundredth Post Baby!

 Miss Eisley would be very very very proud. Here's to you...Cheers!

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   Loquat tree off to the left and planted from seed that I got from a friend. The beauty about this tree is 

the fruit could vary some and mine fortunately turned out noticeably a tad larger than the original.

   Areca palm to the right, given to me from a former neighbor two doors down and this palm is still

thriving and gives me joy that it's loves this spot that it is in, obviously.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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    Gorgeous! Looks like I may have to capture some more cloudscapes for this parade.

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   Nice life like furry animal there...hehe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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    WTF Blogger....inserting an image is now F$%@!...Priceless nonsense

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     similar   but      different....angle .....lighting.........and..........your      turn!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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         C  o  r   n  e  r      B    e    a    u  t i  f  u l  !  !

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    My Popcorn tree is ginormous

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    Ode to a ray of golden sunshine. Shine shine shine.

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   Not unlike a ginormous Conk Shell.

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    Ah, the three beautiful Italian Cypress Trees that resemble a hum... famous logo that I will not mention

and give them free publicity . . . hehe.

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    Pads of concrete designed for this humans' gate, originally who knows' when last poured. The fact

that it still remains as of yet, one less piece of human made entity that is still witnessing some practical

usefulness. Says this constant gardener. 

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   The Podopcarpus' and Bald Cypress trees are lined up like soldiers in the tall tall green grass.

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   My camera phone's camera got an update and really shows well in this shot.
 

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    Golden...the first thing that jumps out...as in color!

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    Ahhhhhh   the    green...oh   a   spot  of   blue too

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      One of five Crape Myrtles trees through out the yard, from a different angle. Started from cuttings

of course. Easy to start, says this constant gardener and the darnedest thing to get rid of.  

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 It's that time of the year for some dramatic cloud-scapes and with a tad of lightning bursts, too

quick to capture on this old bur reliable camera phone. They were flashing for out entertainment and aw.

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    Lots of texture and looks like I should scale back that bromeliad, which will give me a garden-do to

do this week, no hurry.

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                                  Two monocultures, one green and one tricoloured.

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   Lemon grass dominates this scene with the potted Texas Ebony to it's left, that emphasize my 

architectural elements.

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    This prompts me to add how much rain we had thus far and perhaps one for the books and to add

that I lost a specimen to this rain due to it not liking it's feet wet, sort a speak. 

    Ah, the trials and 

                       tribulations of being a constant gardener.  They come and they go, but never leave.

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Nothing like a spot of rain to give this view some atmosphere, like they do in the movies.  My African

Tababuhia tree is now just a stand in for a glorified hanger for my orchids and then some. I almost cut

that tree down due to it's invasive seedlings, but only kept it due to it being a souvenir of my first 

hurricane that left it on a severe bent. Not knowing it would come in handy many years later and for that

I am grateful.

 

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 And this the one that inspired me to get this parade started.  Let the Parade begin  .   .    .

Recovering from an extended dry season, this Angel Trumpet is trumpeting it's resilience with either

a last ditch effort to regenerate some viable seeds or just showing off.  

   Well it sure got my attention and will be showing off what a constant gardener can do over the years 

their  joys of gardening and it goes  to show you I could not even imagined that this yard go display

so my much beauty and joy in this one's eye of the beholder.

Late Bloomer Boomer

 like a slow mo firework that is doing all it can do just to open every two years, subdived that

work ratio into opening a  bloom   and      this      is     what      you    get.

       I know, I know, this weather and temps are not your thing, your timing to me is breath taking

and well appreciated and admired.

Here's The Conundrum

  A well  intended neighbor wanted to give me some established cuttings to a flowering plant.

A plant I'm familiar with but don't keep. My Grandmother's garden had the typical deep butter

yellow colored ones that was quite healthy and required frequent pruning, very happy plant.

Although this neighbor couldn't find a photo of the plant in bloom and described said color.

Fast forward months that it tool my cuttings to settle in and three of the seven cuttings took

hold after some false starts, hence the remaining winners of the cuttings lottery. About a week

and a half ago, to my surprise and amazement there are three blossoms buds showing some 

color. While one can't always tell from the bud stage to what the color will be, this color will

definitely be one of these new hybrids, still  stoked with anticipation and curiosity.

Exhibit 'A'

Potentially a making of a beautiful entry to my plant kingdom. Except the red spectrum shown

above is not what my eye perceives. My mind is racing as to what could be the issue among many.

First time bloom in the midst of our high summer and the leaves looking a bit pail, not enough sun,

poor nutrients, on and on.

                 A very distinct reach, needing it's fix of golden sunshine so it can do it's best

in case it might be lacking in it's other necessary basic requirements. I need more sun please.

Again this salmon color represented here is not the color I saw with my discerning eyes.

                 A couple days later the final reveal in all it's glory and giving it's all.  Hopefully 

my pollinators can get what need from this specimen and leave it at that, ha!

 

     The gig is up, I already spilled the beans about your photogenic red tones and I'm being 

generous and needless to say a wee bit disappointed. Had I seen this in the garden section and

our big box stores, I would not have even give it a second glance let alone a thought in my head.

     What's the next thing that I do. 

Exhibit 'B'

I took some saturation out of this photo that comes a bit more closer to what I see and if you add

some brown tones this would be spot on.  I will get to observe this specimen as millions do when

they insist in having cut flowers in the house, which I'm not a fan of when I live a gardener's

paradise. 

       I am hopeful, so  just   trimmed    back    this   offensive   and    not    appealing    to   my

ideal of vegetative beauty to give it a second chance and who knows, it might even change it's

spots or mimic that legendary horse of a different color and surprise me or not.

       

             Ah ,       the           wonderful          world        of        gardening.

Texture

 

  

   and see if you can find the two that are pretty well camouflaged, but not of their own doing in

this scene from after two epic rain storms.

Lemon Grass for The Win

 

 

 Giving this night scene and garden cement structures some class.

Late Bloomer One of Two

 

A nod to those late bloomers that barely have enough energy to crank out a bloom every other

year and wholly molly you sure are breath taking too.

Terbercle and Pad Two

               No surprises here, you on the left, sprouting quite nicely and I might add, as expected.

 

 Now you in the other hand, Terbercle, wearing that yellow thingy. I get it, you might not have the

means, cell biology to take this to another level, but hey, surprise me. The fact that you were the first to

grow roots at your severed end gave me hope and adventure. Stay tuned?

 

Two Late Bloomers

 This out of season Blue Lilly of  the Nile never fails to impress entrance this seasoned constant 

gardener.

                                                        Ok ok, this is your best side.

 

 

This is a first for this orchid to shoot out an out of season spike while the rest has turned to seed capsules.

  We were just texting about you and here you go with the extra effort. Nice, you show off...hehe.

ICU and Day Spa

 

Today I think I might of notice a new swelling of it's leaf bud tip....good sign. This patient gets time 

to the afternoon's rain blast that provides some ample humidity and familiar moist temperatures.

   Existing leaves still look a bit peaked and pushing it's light exposure to over twenty hours at

a time. 

          Plants out of sheer survival can be quite resilient and forgiving at the same time. Prove me

right, we can do this.

Rescue or Follie

    This one was in decline for at least a couple of weeks and went south this past week.

So drastic decline requires drastic measures and those measures I just took today.

    I notice yesterday that this potted beauty had sent out a couple of roots out the bottom of it's

pot that was sitting on the bare earth, if you will. That was a good sign, but! Looking at the root

ball out of it's pot there were more dire things happening, one, there was a nest of ants, which had

to be excised, which required a total soilectomy, just made that up, that spell check is having a 

fit. In the process of flushing any signs of the old and I mean really old soil, perhaps nearly

seven to eight years old. It being a stunted plant in itself, most like a genetic dwarf from seed. 

All the more reason to take some serious action, otherwise it would soon be gone, but not forgotten, 

if you get my gist.

   With that out of the way, here I present the newly reimaged dwarf Purple, I believe, Tabebuia

tree and in this case, which lends itself nicely to the art of Bonsai.

   This time of the year is a toss up as to which environment is the least hostile, indoors with A/C as

dryer than a Desert or outside in a partially shaded extreme heat and humidity, as you can see here in

the photo above, which can change.  Desperate measures for desperate conditions

This Will Be

 the year of the Ceres cactus with it's new flush of flower buds, just now presented themselves to me.

You have to look really hard, due to the angle I had to use in order to see all four blossoms peeking out.

Two in the foreground and two in the background.  Time will tell if they all are able to come to 

fruition.

White and Gold

 This time of the year when the White blossoms from the Crape Myrtle trees fall down like 

snow. This is the first time it is accompanied with a heavy down pour of rain that leaves standing 

water, which I didn't notice that it had rained until I look out my bathroom 's screen window that so 

lets in a relative cool breeze. Mind you it was close to being in the nineties and little humidity ,

that is until it rained. I step outside some time later, long enough for the standing water to sink in and

to my amazement I see this, just when you think you seen everything thing and your gifted with this

sight of white and gold.

That's a lot of pollen that our pollinators don't get. I wonder if some insects can still harvest let alone

know what to do with it in it's water saturated state. I know what I'm going to do, is take a picture of this

new garden phenomenon. Garden wonders never cease.

Talenti Free

 and my latest plant assemblage makes best usage of several materials lying about, if you will.

 These Birds Nest Anthurium seedlings started their life in a Talenti container and ever since I was

imagining what their next home a way from home would look like. Well now we have it and six

of the nine nestlings are visible from this view shown above. Don't they look like little birdy nestlings

gleefully enjoying the view from this suspended hanging garden. 

   Not unlike most three dimensional sculptures, one is happy for one good side, but being three

dimensional there are those other possible views that will be seen and rare that they might be able to 

compete with and just might capture the viewers attention almost as mesmerizing.

   Just as artists create cinema, where not only do you have images, but throw in some cinematic 

orchestrated music to enhance the cinema experience. I to have found a piece of music that has 

captured my attention just as much as this single image you see above. The tune is called Mother 

from the file called Lion, which I have not seen by the way so I have the privilege to conjure up 

this magic of these both arts of creativity that could lead to who knows what.

 

   As the running credits role we will observe some other views    .     .    .

 

 

 

Terbercle and Pad

now grounded and hopefully propagating roots and whatever comes next and yes, that terbercle

is wearing a bead.

 

Oh look, more beads, busted!