Tag: Flora
During Alberto
Tradescantia pallida, more commonly known as Purple Heart… and since I always post the first Crinum lily of the season… lily with Bree in the background. In people years the old girl is 83.
You can’t kill crinums. I pulled the entire bed up after Irma… about 60 of them… and threw the ones I wanted to keep in another bed. Not planted. They lay there dormant, looking door-nail dead, until I planted them again this Spring. Miraculous.
Alberto has been dumping massive amounts of water on us, but guess what? It’s monsoon season anyway. For two weeks before Al got here we were inundated every day. Fortunately we live on a sandbar.
Last Confederate Ivy
My neighbors succeeded in killing off an entire fence length of beautiful ivy, except for this bit. I tried to save the others that had been cut back over and over… to no avail.
And.. I still stand in the middle of the back yard, looking into their house -because there’s no thick wall of ivy anymore- and wonder WHY.
I KNOW!
I should be at Home Depot buying caulk and paint, but couldn’t pass this up…
Must.stop.taking.pictures.
Wow
No bokeh, but check the growth speed! Hard to believe I just got this booger a few days ago.
In other news, have you ever seen a bulb glass like this? I think when the hyacinth dies (let’s just go ahead and face the inevitability of it now, k?) I’ll put a lily bulb in it and see what happens.
Plodding Along
Still working on the yard; this time one of the front beds. Looks crazy messy, but it was worse before I tackled it…
Bulbs
I just dug up about a million crinum lily bulbs!
And Badger helped.
