This Valley of White Violets

 

Lives many giants.

What The?

  

Garden Art installation Feb2022

 

Giving is some space .... so it can    BBBBBBREEEEEEEATHHHHHHH

I can almost hear the winds of  Jupiter's  Red   Storm

Boy Do We Have Geckos

 We got them in their night clothes.  Do I hear echos of 'The Emperor's New Clothes'

get some clothes on, you clown.

And we have them in their day clothes too.

                                              Snazzy!

My Angel IS Blooming

 

 

Classic Angel Begonia....classic bloom. 

 

Now now, there's no reason for my two very own Guarding and or Gardening Angels to be jealous.

It's True, It's Really True

 I had purchased this Orchid two years ago and needless to say it caught my eye.

 

It's commanding architecture, that overachiever to the left. That's what happens when

you find a really good orchid fertilizer and use it to push the orchid  to do it's best.

All a while thinking, hey if it's base and foundation can do this what are the possibilities that 

the flower, most times, the star of the show could do something just as spectacular.

 

Until I saw this, how much more un-orchid bud could this orchid be. I then recall  my conversation

with the breeder of said orchid. Telling him I admire the plant itself and then something to the 

effect, this won't be known for it's bloom, if it blooms at all.

Fair enough...Sold!   Two years later I spy this mangy looking buds? Speaking of architecture,

someone forgot the structures, mass and room for anything that might support something

orchid like.

Seriously, no regrets. I even went out on our dark night to bring it in to see what might of

become of these, wimpy buds...to my amazement....all dried out and not bigger but smaller

than what they looked like in the above photo. 

That little sprout at the bottom left of the pot, is now the tallest shoot and with it's signature

additional twin leaves making it's way into the world.

 

Wow, wow, and another Wow.    They are on their way of becoming the Sequoias of the orchid 

world...hehe. 

This  specimen, might have left out on the orchid but has gained tremendously on the infrastructure.

Prequel to Look What I Found

 The day of discovery....first sighting. Like and Iceberg, you got to look below to see it's mass.

I know, who knew, Jabba the Hut has nothing on this fat boy.

First impressions, is this one of our native Florida yams? Until I saw this psuedobulb.

 

If that wasn't enough, there was this orchid like flower *pointer finger for scale and focus* .

Now we are getting closer to being able to find what plant this might be.

A couple of weeks ago I went to one of our city's garden plant sale and they did not disapoint.

One of the vendors had some specimens, what's called Pachypodiums, not unlike the psuedobulb

shown above.  Pachypodiums was something that lept through my mind, however remote the 

possibility would be. We live in a  world where speciesof all sorts can land on our doorsteps if 

you will and take hold, so why not a Pachy.

Most things in this world has a name and I was able to sus out a name from my relatively quick

search on the internet and who's name will not cross this page.

Finally

planted my Coontie seeds.  Yes, I confess that this planting while not during a full moon,

it was under the cover of darkness....hehe. Sun shade on top to help it thru our dry season

and help retain some of the moisture it will get from my rain barrel.

Just yesterday, the few remaining seeds that I had and was too not going to skin the seeds

of their fleshy coatings. Got tossed into my back forty for the squirrels to make do with what

they do.

Two experiments, traditional and nature, will have to wait and see what transpires.