New blooms from my lovely garden!
May 1st: More Orchids!
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April 28th: My Garden
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
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
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- mystery bulb #1 found in the bushes
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- tied it to a palm
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- mystery bulb #2… planted this one.
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!
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- Cut them from the dead mother plant
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- tied them up
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- Lets see if they attach…
March 20th: Spring-time blooms
I have yet another gorgeous bloom in my backyard! As I was cleaning up the kitchen, I looked out the window and couldn’t see past some palm fronds where I knew I had an orchid tied to its trunk.
When I finished up, I walked outside and found this!! Low and behold behind that mess of fronds was this gorgeous orchid with two flowers and 4 buds waiting to bloom! I ripped the fronds down from the over-grown palm to make my gorgeous new addition more visible from my window.
Here are some pics of the yard in bloom:
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- 4 orchids with 2 plants in bloom so far on one set of palms.
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- Close-up
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- New addition!
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- close up of its blooms
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- I have yet another one that has not yet bloomed but will be soon!
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- I can’t wait to see what color it will be. I forgot what was tied there last year!
February 9th: Flowers abloom!
As I let Max out to the back yard this morning, a bit of purple caught my eye through all the green of the palms… I did a double take and there it was! The orchids I grafted to the palm trees in my back yard experimentally last winter have begun to re-bloom!!
I’m so proud and amazed! Check out the blooms and the buds that will soon blossom!
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- Through the palms I almost didn’t see they were there!
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- Check out how many buds are going to come out of this one!
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