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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
No surprises here, you on the left, sprouting quite nicely and I might add, as expected.
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?
This out of season Blue Lilly of the Nile never fails to impress entrance this seasoned constant
gardener.
This is a first for this orchid to shoot out an out of season spike while the rest has turned to seed capsules.
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.
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.
.jpeg)
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
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.
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.
.jpeg)
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.
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 . . .
