April 28th: My Garden

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I’m so very proud of everything growing in my back yard right now.  More plants are popping up in bloom and those that are already in bloom just seem to stay beautiful indefinitely.  My “mystery bulb” is sprouting, my avocado is getting huge, my orchids are gorgeous…  I just go back there every evening and spend time inspecting things and picking up fallen palm fronds….

Next project:  Gotta get that pesky bougainvillea to flower.  I haven’t seen a bloom from it since my gardener trimmed it down to a stump 2 years ago (I may have mentioned this once before.)  Any advice on how to get it to flower????

March 29th: Blueberry Pancakes and Mystery Gardening

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Today i started my morning by making my first-ever batch of blueberry pancakes.  While they weren’t the best pancakes I’ve ever eaten,  they certainly weren’t the worst.  And, they were beautiful if I don’t say so myself… 🙂

After breakfast, I got a SURGE of energy and was on a mission to do gardening and housework before the end of my weekend… Work starts again on Monday!  I started in the garden by cleaning up some fallen palm fronds and finding some bulbs in the bushes…  One of the bulbs had sprouted some serious roots despite not being in the soil and the other was just beginning to grow.  I decided to tie one to a palm and plant the other…. Lets see what they become!  LOL

I also managed to salvage the last of my Aunt’s orchid.  She sprouted three babies that were beginning to wilt because the mother plant has died and begun to dry out.  I cut the babies off the mother plant and tied them to palms in my yard as well.  Next year my yard is going to be VERY colorful.  Can’t wait!