It’s April 20th, and the plants on my patio are into late spring mode: the last course of cymbidiums opening up their flower buds as the earlier courses come to an end (these will come to their own end in six weeks or so); meanwhile, my bigleaf hydrangea has shot up into a mass of dark green leaves, with shoots now filled with buds that will open up into bright pink umbels in a week or so. All this an occasion for taking my new little camera out of doors. So I have a couple of photos for you.
A huge pot of green. But no leprechauns, only Hydrangea macrophylla:
(#1) Leafy beauty, about 18 inches tall, soon to be covered with flowers
Four cymbidium cultivars. In four different colors, including one gorgeous one that’s bright white. (I need to learn how do do closeups so I can better show show you its beauty.)
(#1) Also: golden yellow with big flowers, reddish brown with big flowers, and very light yellow with small flowers; behind them an ivy-covered wall (ivy that constantly threatens to swallow up the entire landscape)
(Forgive me the amateurish camera work.)
April 20, 2024 at 4:25 pm |
All the recent rains have spurred a spate of sprouting! 🌱
April 20, 2024 at 4:57 pm |
Well, the cymbidiums are (here in California) rainy-season plants (winter and spring), and if it doesn’t rain, you have to water them generously.
The hydrangea, on the other hand, normally blooms throughout the summer, but it likes moist soil, so that periods of warmish rain sometimes inspires it to bloom at anomalous times of the year. It does what it does, and I admire it.