We've had a couple of cold nights, with temps down in the high 20s (F). In the greenhouse, things are doing well. Mornings, when I return from the train station after dropping Nigel off, I go out there and sometimes just breathe. It smells like green, growing things, and the plants in there are responding to longer periods of daylight.
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Echium 'Star of Madeira' is flowering |
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The whole plant overall is thriving |
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Variegated Opuntia, a recent purchase st the Portland Yard, Garden and Patio Show |
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When the ladies at the checkout were packing it into a carry-bag, they knocked off one of the pads. So it's sitting in a dish, getting hardened off so I can try rooting it. Then I'll have two! |
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The Brugs are producing flowers |
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This one produced a seedpod in the autumn, which has been hanging on and ripening all winter. I don't know if I should try sowing the seeds or not. Brugs are much easier to propagate via cuttings. |
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Echevaria flowers |
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I love the pink and orange! |
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I've been looking for a Pachypodium for a while with no success, so when I saw this one at the Rare Plant Research table at the YGP show, it basically hopped off the table into my hot little hand. |
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The leaves and spikes are such a strange combo of cute and lethal |
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These two bright red Bromeliads in burlap bags came from Garden Fever in Portland. |
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And this enormous Bromeliad, Aechmea blanchetiana, came from Rare Plant Research. I had to shift some plants around to fit it under the wire table, but eventually I managed to shoehorn it in. |