Spring Has Sprung Here In Central Florida

Along with the typical harbingers of Spring.

Our Japanese Azaleas are a blaze. This one in particular has it's architecture
exposed as I clear out the base to put in a proposed concrete pad.

Amaryllis are my Spring favorite, just beginning to bloom.
I have a ring of Amaryllis seedlings in the backyard that have yet shown a
first bloom.

There are four different types of Amaryllis here and all from seed, so
there is no telling how the variance's of the originals will be revealed
as they come into bloom.

This Paw Paw tree can be my new harbinger. This is my third attempt
to establish this American native fruit tree and this is the first time
that it's gotten through to a third season. The leaf buds are just
emerging and their color of dark chocolate can be deceiving and yet
one more sign of life renewal.

This mini Vanda orchid (above) and this old school Begonia (below) are
just two more flowering signs of Spring.

One More Potted Specimen Among Many Finds A Spot

As ubiquitous as these are in Florida, this potted Weeping Bottlebrush
tree gets put in the ground. Keeping my recycled porch steps and with
some time, a makeshift altar some company.

It's part of my longtime campaign to get most of my potted specimens in the
ground. Reason, you may ask? As most if not all of my potted specimens are
not cold hardy and may be subjected to our occasional freezing temperatures
is the primary reason why they are not planted in the ground. Why now?
Over time I've become less concern with their demise, and excepting that
one takes some reasonable risks in growing some exotic plants. 

Bachelor Cafe Exclusive

Salvaged some black thai rice that had too much salt
added to the water. So remediate that issue we just add
more low sodium bulk. That is where some Uncle Sam
cereal comes in and blue berries, apple, pepitas,
cinnamon and a side of Icelandic yogurt.

He Ain't Heavy....

From that sixties Hollies song came to mind as I a was processing
this first bloom.

 

First Time Bloom - Tricolored Jasmine - Trachelospermum asiaticum 'Tricolor'

After spotting this vine climbing up a Crape Myrtle and trying to
wrap my brain around what I was witnessing. I knew exactly that
as soon as I got home I was going to train this vine up this tree.

So today is when I noticed the vine up in the tree had bloom. I've
had this as a beautiful ground cover for at least five years. It's been
about two years since this vine had made it's way up into this tree
formed Crape Myrtle.

No competition here, what with the multicolored trunk
of the Crape Myrtle and another multicolored Jasmine
vine.

Typical pinwheel type flower, indicative to this variety and my first impression
of the scent is not as sweet with an added spiciness.

Bachelor Cafe Exclusive With A Salute From This Experimental Kitchen

Also a first meal, just awaken and to see this new creation bring a smile to
my face and rumble to my fasting stomach.

Extra fiber and protein pasta, marinara with added avocado, an excellent
cheese substitute. Temperatures outside are in their low eighties so making
this dish with chilled pasta, chilled marinara, chilled avocado and a dash
of ground black pepper makes this tailored bachelor cafe an exclusive
from this experimental kitchen. 

Volunteer Bald Cypress - Taxodium distichum Seedlings (Nature Drama ) Update

Don't be distracted by that leafing out bud stage of the potted fig tree
top center. The star of the show is down center, in all it's scene stealing
beauty or for those horror fans.

There were once these twin seedlings and as the days go by one of the
once robust twin as taken ill and now appears to be having it's vibrance
sucked away by it's evil and once equal but now dominant twin.

But wait, there's another impending doom. That meek and mild fig tree
is setting the stage for it's winter transformation as it to finds it's own
vibrance as the season changes and making it's dominance known when
it flushes into into it's new foliage and robbing this seedling's life giving
energy from our ever growing sun's dominance.

Stay tuned, as Nature's life and death drama continues.