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!