Windowsill Menagerie Redux

Taking advantage of the light's incoming direction to capture
the seasonal light availability.

Shaving Brush Tree's First Bloom Of The Season - Psedobombax ellipticum

Since placed in the ground several months ago this S. American tropical is
showing it's gratitude.

Knowing that it likes it's feet wet and last year's wet year, this spot stayed wet
for days. Only thing else holding it back is Florida's potential freezing temperatures.
Nature can only hold back some of mankind's follies.



Earlier this afternoon witnessed a Mocking bird, our state bird sample a native
and ancient potted Everglade tomato. These tomatoes are no bigger than a small
blueberry.

Don't mind sharing with nature as long as it's one for nature and three
for me.

Windowsill Menagerie Settled In

It didn't take long to establish this indoor landscape.

Those land shells verses sea shells I believe to be of the native type,
Florida Apple Snail. Found nearby and needless to say, there was nothing
still living inside, but now there is. Drilled a drain hole at the underside for
drainage.

We shall see how time and attention will see this menagerie through.

Windowsill Menagerie Startup

Menagerie of cuttings (African violet) and juvenile plantlets (Peperomia) to miniature

(Mini African violet) to more cuttings (Parsley aralia).

Last but not least (Pilea peperomioides).

Of all the time I spend at this kitchen sink I might as well put it to work, and for my gardening enjoyment.

My Three Italians

These three italian cypress trees scrub up well after a minor clipping, hosing
down and good shaking. Loosening up any dead debris that any mites can use
to get a foothold. 

These specimens can succumb to mites quite fast if not for some minor annual
maintenance.

A Cardinal and Brown Thrush (birds) took advantage of the wet foliage as they dodged
in and out like they were taking a sponge bath.

This Year's Faces Of Spring

This Amryilla collection has my first collection beat when it comes the year's
first blooms. These are my latest from seedlings to and hoping to spy an
interesting one. So far these have come true, or close to their parents,
they haven't disappointed.

TEsting TO SeE IF I tRANSfered THis BLOG FroM G+ 2 BLoGgeR

Hope to have some curtains hung up in my studio soon to see if I can influence the
acoustics.

My fictitious name will be Cla(y) Ke(e)land, pronounced Clay KeeLand. My last
serious recordings were in '93. Ten of them.

We shall see and listen.