Lady Palm Comes Full Circle

Acquired this specimen nearly thirty years ago with a coworker. She had found a home owner

selling these for dirt cheap. Even then and even now these can be quite expensive, knowing

how slow growing they can be.

This stayed potted, I say stay but they will find a way to run a rhizome out the bottom of the

pot and make way to freedom. I've get the mother rhizome for extra measure, in hopes that

it will sprout another off shoot.

There are two spots where the this original pot sat in my garden. This latest find, spotted a

couple of years ago finally finds it's way back to where it can be corralledonce more and

appreciated for it's beauty.

Most palms don't transplant well, as my understanding and the fail won't be revealed until it's

too late. So once again I find myself in that 'time will tell' dimension.

Six Days In

and these tads have never had broccoli before and can't get enough would make

any parent proud by eating their veggies.

Moved two over grown tads from the subleted apartment which now makes three

tiny tads. These tiny tads won't have nearly the appetite of the others, but finely

witnessed two of them munching on the, you guessed it, the broccoli.

Aquatic Confines Get A Mod

Circular roof top shade gives both structures some need shade because even creatures when given an option they will take it. While the annex gets another sprig of green.

Believe it or not, this morning with the A/C not running. I could hear the big tads munching on the

some fresh sliced organic spinach, less than three feet away.

Tiney Tads Gets Their Own Apartment

You can see how tiny, as I suspect that these are Florida Chorus frog tadpoles, six of these to be exate.

The size difference is quite noticeable compared to the Cuban Treefrog tadpole seen in the adjacent aguascape.

I figured that all of these tads are on borrowed time and have been rescued and should they

mature to froglet and fledge? Well, they will only be some other critter's gummy. That's the life of the

prodigious frog.

In the mean time enjoy their beauty and the fact that they propbably don't sleep, in the normal sense.

They are too busy eating, shitting and morphing.

New Purple Props

Purple potatoes? Notice the core's aren't as purple as the skins. This is the second batch like that

but these are the first that had eyes. I will make an attempt to grow these in my spent tomato

planters and see what my my eyes will see.

Look Who Joined

the indoor props table.

The only thing these Tadpoles are propagating is poop and that's ok, because

with more poop means more fertilizer for all my needy plants.

It's  a good thing that Tadpoles love them some organic raw spinach and that I

have plenty. Given the choice organic Spinach first, organic spouted seeded bread,

then Fancy Guppy food. All this with at least two changes of rain water a day.

The thinly sliced cucumber not so much, don't let this guy nibbling on a cucumber

floaty fool yah.

Three days in since their rescue I would say that they are a bunch of happy campers, knowing

their odds of survival to adult hood. There's still a long way to go but we will just have to take

one day at a time.

Resue Me(s)

Well if you insist...

            wee little tadpoles...

and wee little, well you should have seen the other two specimens of Elderberry.

Going into shock from the jarring move from prime real estate to this temporary plastic pot.

Hopefully a good misting will help it a long or maybe not. Time will tell.

I remember seeing this weed, or so I thought at the time I told my neighbor that I would keep

his front patch of volunteers in check. Until I was in Tampa early March to pick up my violin

from a long needed repair. I stopped into a couple of places and always on the hunt for new

treats for the palette and what do I find? Some Elderberry flower infused sparkling water.

So after some internet research and now knowing that we have this growing in abundance

around a local lake. Not that I would want to eat anything that grew around this Federally

designated sick 'for lack of better technical term' lake. As in be fined or clean it up. Our fine

city took the cheaper route and paid the fine.

Just as these lake bound Elderberry plants went into bloom was when the city, although  late

into the game of can't come to a decision to quarantine the city, including the path around

this lake. The timing cut me off in trying to harvest some of these blooms to distill into some

sense and or version of some Elderberry nectar.

Yesterday, while reading a book and glancing up out the window and looks onto my neighbor's

collection of plant volunteers and what do I spy. The distinct gray tinged sharp narrow leaves

of what I suspect and confirmed with a quick internet search and what you see above.

Tadpoles, they are a piece of cake. Two feedings of guppy fish food a day and changes of

rain water based on how cloudy the water gets.

As for the Elderberry plant, all I can do is wait and mist it occasionally and protect it from

the summer's harsh afternoon sun. Should this plant bounce back I can feed it some tadpole

wasted water for a tiny nutritional boost.

Win win.

Looks like the water changing will be on a shorter schedule as they take on some

organic sprouted seeded bread, giving them even more fiber than they bargained

for.