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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2014 14:25:49 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2014 21:31:51 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2014 15:07:48 GMT
My quince is going to flower this year!
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Post by bixaorellana on May 2, 2014 15:50:03 GMT
Great capture of the camellia buds, Kerouac -- really took me back to my grandmother's yard.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2014 16:06:55 GMT
The camellias are finished for the year here.
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Post by fumobici on May 2, 2014 22:06:04 GMT
Hummingbirds *love* quince blossoms. I've got an old quince tree/bush in the herb garden and the hummingbird males literally fight over the surrounding airspace. They'll make dive bombing runs at you too if you get too close at the wrong time. It's remarkable how pugnacious tiny little birds can be.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2014 1:04:54 GMT
Thanks for that knowledge, fumobici! Anything for the hummingbirds. Yes, they can be pugnacious, we've had them take on crows here.
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Post by lagatta on May 3, 2014 22:49:01 GMT
Our horrible long winter delayed everything so much that I couldn't even look at this thread and all the springtime beauty. There are finally some large green buds on the maple tree outside my home office window (I live on the top storey of a triplex). They seem to grow as I look at them. Of course last year, everything was in leaf by now.
Idem le muguet (lily of the valley). Late, but the shoots are springing up very fast.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2014 22:56:20 GMT
Everything will come on very quickly now, lagatta, although I had a shock when I saw photos from Calgary this morning... Le muguet, aahhh. I remember buying a huge bunch from a Roma lady in the Paris metro and keeping it in my hotel room. That, more than anything, relayed the romance of the season (although I was fully aware they were probably snatched from someone's garden!).
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Post by mich64 on May 4, 2014 17:32:05 GMT
Cleaned the leaf covers off the gardens a few days ago to find many of the perennials have sprouted. When visiting my mom and dad last week her front garden was full of tulip leaves, unfortunately the next morning they were all gone, the deer munched on all of them! Thankfully they are not brave enough to try to get around their vehicle in the carport to get to the back yard gardens!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2014 9:41:42 GMT
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Post by htmb on Aug 4, 2014 9:53:16 GMT
Outstanding!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2014 13:41:14 GMT
Yes, that is truly gorgeous!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2014 14:03:31 GMT
The problem with sunflowers, though, is trying to decide what to consider a "bud"!
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 8, 2014 5:49:07 GMT
I recently posted pictures of this cactus's flowers. After flowering, it sat quietly, minding its own business, then suddenly sprouted all these buds ~ Maybe that was a challenge to this guy, who has a promising display as well ~
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2014 13:17:18 GMT
Gorgeous Bixa. Who would have thought that such a treacherous looking plant could put forth blooms. I'll be anxious to see them in full regalia
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2014 16:11:16 GMT
It's funny how even cacti have to push out flowers beyond their spines to allow themselves to be ravished by pollinators.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2014 11:22:30 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 19, 2014 14:23:51 GMT
Thanks, Casimira. The little round cactus still has not opened its flowers.
That's a super picture, Kerouac.
Hm. No one commented on the Hoya buds, which I certainly would not have recognized. They are more developed now, but not yet flowers.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2014 16:28:27 GMT
Hm. No one commented on the Hoya buds, which I certainly would not have recognized. They are more developed now, but not yet flowers. Probably because they scared us.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 19, 2014 17:22:36 GMT
I lied about their being buds. They're actually alien body parts.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 13:18:41 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 21, 2014 1:00:16 GMT
Oooo -- pretty & 3D! Kalanchoe?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 19:52:38 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 26, 2014 2:36:35 GMT
Coolisimo! Thistle?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2014 4:16:05 GMT
Looks like it to me.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 31, 2014 5:40:40 GMT
¡Ya mero! Taken a couple of days ago, these hoya buds are just about ready to open ~~
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 11:37:10 GMT
I never would have recognized the hoya buds in the initial photos you posted. The second set I can now see it. That second picture is absolutely stunning in it's crispness and detail. (needs to go into the Image Bank IMHO). I'm still waiting for my 'Missoula'hoya to bud. It may need more light although I have it in the exact same place as the previous hoya which 'bit the dust' due to neglect while I was gone for a long time and my husband "didn't see it".
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 31, 2014 17:02:28 GMT
Thanks, Casimira! "didn't see it" It was the initial photos that made me understand why all the sources say not to remove the spent hoya blossoms, as the next crop will grow from those stubs. Because they're magnified in the pic, I can see where there is evidence of previous activity, for want of a better word -- sort of like the rings within a tree. I have the hoya in these pictures, which may or may not be H. lanceolata. Also have two H. carnosa, but the smooth-leaved variety. My plant guy is on the lookout for the curly-leaved one, which I love. He has H. kerrii, which I find enormously tempting, but it's a rampant grower & I have no space for it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 17:23:40 GMT
Oh, I know Bixa, but, bless his heart, I was gone for seven weeks and it was so forgivable given all the tasks he was he was saddled with. And, as a plus, the one I have now, as a replacement, came via Missoula, Montana, from a veteran poster of APIAS. It's H. Carnosa and healthy albeit no blooms yet. So, a silver lining to be sure that came out of it via our on-line community.
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