Spring's downpour that puts an end to our seasonal dry season and it looks like this.
Two Bald Cypress saplings that are replacing a downed Podocarpus tree are not out of peril of
getting through it's first year in the ground. The red capped water wells are there to encourage them
to develop a deep tap root to help safeguard them from our extended dry seasons. The one sapling
to the right is still recovering and it's needles are still showing their arched leaf spines, if you will
and indicate to me that it may not make a full recovery and into it's second year, but hey, that's a plant's
life, like ours, we only have this moment.
These two corkscrew gingers are just showing off their rain soaked leaves and thankful from
not getting another splash of city water...yuk!
This Angels Trumpet has not fallen from the heavens, but only from about six feet above.
The twin potted plants, twins from separate lineages. The big one in the back just got a pruning
yesterday to help keep it compact, which mirrors the small twin twin trunked specimen to it's
right, our left. Small twin twin trunked, just had to spell that out twice or thrice.
In with the new and out with the old. This ornamental citrus it just that, you wouldn't want
to eat unless you were on board a ship sailing the ocean and you are experiencing signs of scurvy.
That's how bad this variety tastes like, as this constant gardener can attest.
This cactus is still in recovery mood from a major operation and to show it's zest for life it puts
on a new pup for us gardeners to enjoy and celebrate.
These two little ones, just coming off a repotting and enjoying the water from above, where
the one on the left has it's two hands raised to give us that anthropomorphic identifying expression.
I managed to throw in a big word that tells me it's time to exit and I hope you get
the thankfulness and joy of gardening like I DO.
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