Belated GBBD October 2010

Hello!

I haven't posted in months but I finally have some pretty flowers to talk about.

Shrimp plant. This camera doesn't do it justice (I won't be buying a Fujifilm camera anymore) but this flower is a pretty dark pink w/ a hot pink center. I love it.

 

my only surviving Puya that I grew from seed

 

Close up of shrimp plant again

 

Chalk sticks! What a cool succulent

 

Now this is exciting for me. This year I have seedpods galore on my Snail Vine, Vigna Caracalla. Sorry I don't have any pictures of the flowers - they sure were pretty. I was told these seeds were rare so I'm excited I have several pods.

 

End of season Basil. I got tired of deadheading the plant, so I just let it bolt. Quite pretty.

 

blurry macro.

 

Shrimp again!

 

late GBBD

The following two pictures are actually from December. I bought two new plants.

This is Salvia - not sure what kind

Shrimp plant. I am glad they are hardy here!


And the following three are more recent

Paperwhite blooms. When I planted the bulbs, they were very curved over from being pot bound for so long. However, they did straighten out eventually. Some people do not like the smell of paperwhites, but I don't think it's too bad. They seemed like such a boring concept to me before I actually owned any. An all white flower just seemed--- sort of boring. However, and it's not evident in the picture, the petals actually have sort of a nacreous finish and sort of shimmer in the light. It's nice.

I bought this last plant at Home Depot recently. It is Gynura aurantiaca or purple passion plant. It is actually a vine, and I'm not sure how long it takes to start 'extending.' The woman at Home Depot said that it has ugly yellow flowers - however I think they are sort of cool. You can find a picture if you google 'gynura aurantiaca yellow flowers'