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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 3, 2020 14:14:52 GMT
No, that was in the Square de l'Hôtel de Sens near the Seine. The bud is for the same flower that you can see out of focus in the background.
Yes, that's the same hibiscus, but it is very ill at the moment. Too soon to tell if I'll need to toss it.
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Post by casimira on Jul 3, 2020 18:18:39 GMT
Oh no!!! What is wrong with it? Maybe we can help diagnose it and advise you what to do no? Please don't toss it yet.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 18, 2020 16:17:01 GMT
I've shown pictures somewhere on here of my night-blooming jungle cactus, an Epiphyllum. It's pretty, but it's not Queen of the Night, Epiphyllum oxypetalum, which I had years ago. I whined about this to my landlady, who promptly gave me a well-rooted plant of it. It was nice, but gangly and overgrown. I rooted pieces of it and now have several pots of which I wasn't expecting much yet. But the other day I saw that I have three buds. They're developing slowly & I'll try to take pictures of them today. I am really excited about having these gorgeous, fragrant flowers again.
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Post by lugg on Jul 18, 2020 19:35:21 GMT
looking forward to your photos Bixa.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 18, 2020 21:34:21 GMT
And I have them! I know someone who says he has a pink version that he'll give me. I saw him today & he showed me a representative flower. It wasn't actually pink, only the fleshy outer petals, which were a delicate shell pink. I don't remember my beloved lost version having that, but will see what these buds turn into before acquiring any more of this very large-growing plant. Anyway, here are pictures of all three of the buds. In the first one you can see how the bud comes straight out from the leaf ~
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 19, 2020 3:14:40 GMT
And some more buds. An hour or so after I took the pictures above we had all the rain in the world come down in less than an hour. When it cleared, the sky was still quite bright (7ish) and everything sparkled with raindrops. I'm quite pleased about this bud, which was just barely visible this morning. It's on a potted fig which was very unhappy, but which got repotted recently and is now getting summer rains ~ Salvia microphylla Here is an Epiphyllum bud again, much prettier dressed in diamonds ~
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 19, 2020 6:58:49 GMT
Lovely pictures Bixa - thanks.
Can I be pedantic? The Epiphyllum buds come from a stem, not a leaf.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 19, 2020 15:36:16 GMT
Beautiful photos, but am I a total perv to think that buds sometimes look a bit pornographic, like the emerging fig?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 19, 2020 17:24:40 GMT
Lovely pictures Bixa - thanks. Can I be pedantic? The Epiphyllum buds come from a stem, not a leaf. Thanks, Mick! If I am with you, I'll try to remember to say stem, rather than leaf, since I know that you know these things. But really, those leaf-looking things growing off the leaf-looking thicker portions just beg to be called leaves. But I must point out that the word Epiphyllum is Greek for "upon the leaf". Wikipedia calls E.oxypetalum "the broad-leaved epiphyllum", although further up the page it only describes stems, with no mention of leaves. Anyway, on Dave's Garden you'll see that propagation can be from "leaf cuttings" and that many who commented were compelled to use the L word, although others nimbly avoided using any term. I'll just have to be nimbler!
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Post by tod2 on Jul 24, 2020 13:05:31 GMT
Its rose pruning time here and we do a few every day. Yesterday we pruned a rose called Antique Silk. It is creamy white with the palest of yellow centres. Today, a pink rose without a name….bought 2 years ago so I might go to a rose nursery when the season kicks off again.
Casi - You may be pleased to know I have three little green things poking through the compost. So I decided to sprinkle more Durchman's Pipe seeds in the soil. I still have about 100 seeds.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 25, 2020 5:31:59 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Jul 25, 2020 7:48:57 GMT
I.m clueless as to what Kerouac has given us to look at….a bud from what plant??
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 25, 2020 12:14:21 GMT
It's a medium sized tree. Here is what the bloom looks like.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 25, 2020 13:27:58 GMT
Looks like a Magnolia.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 25, 2020 13:36:07 GMT
The leaves were most definitely not magnolia leaves.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 25, 2020 16:58:27 GMT
I was thinking that it might be a tulip tree, so I investigated a bit. Tulip trees are part of the magnolia family, but only the magnolia can have pink blossoms, so I think you are proably correct, Mick.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 25, 2020 17:24:24 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 25, 2020 17:39:14 GMT
Obviously, I think of giant white flowers and huge dark green shiny leaves. And there are plenty of those in Paris, too, which is what puts me off course when other types of magnolia appear.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 25, 2020 19:17:12 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 25, 2020 20:18:21 GMT
Runner beauties beans! Is that corn I spy on the right?!
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Post by tod2 on Jul 26, 2020 9:29:40 GMT
Kerouac - Looking at your photos again , I can definitely say I have two enormous (probably +75yrs old trees.) I picked the Saucer Magnolia in Bixa's reference sketches. My trees are in full bloom right now.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 27, 2020 17:23:34 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 23, 2020 10:02:10 GMT
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Post by casimira on Nov 23, 2020 14:24:34 GMT
That's quite the collection there Mick. Do you have to house them indoors in the wintertime?
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 23, 2020 14:57:22 GMT
Yes, all in the greenhouse except for the two Aloe polyphyllas and Aloe striatula which stay out all year round.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 30, 2021 17:07:22 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 30, 2021 18:00:16 GMT
Big bold burgundy beauty!
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 14, 2021 17:47:57 GMT
My hibiscus is preparing to bloom imminently. I think it is haing a psychotic episode and thinks that it has become a poinsettia.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 29, 2022 19:51:56 GMT
I have two Hibiscus plants that I grew from cuttings. One grew like mad, but didn't flower. The other stayed small but would bloom. Now the little one is growing and the big one finally put out buds. The flower is single and hangs like B.schizopetalus, but is not fringed.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 30, 2022 15:53:27 GMT
I'm happy for you because I know what it is like to wait for a hibiscus to decide to finally bloom:
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