Tropicals & Tender Perennials: August Flowers, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
I bet plants do like those long hours of daylight during summer months in Sweden, Denmark, etc. Maybe they are like bears and store up energy for the long winters of lower light and hibernation, LOL. Or, maybe they are like most people and just prefer longer hours of light.

Aaah, the last day of August ... sure wish it meant cooler temperatures were around the corner but unfortunately that isn't the case for us, we still have a couple of months of heat before any fall like weather arrives. We are still having mid 90º days and upper 70's at night. A couple of nights it's been 80º at midnight and 1:00 a.m.

I was out on the deck with my coffee this morning ... walking around looking at plants, and found this wasp on Hoya wayettii. I guess it must be loving the nectar because almost 2 hours later he is still there! At first I thought it might have somehow gotten caught on the bloom and might be dead, but nope he's very much alive and just enjoying his breakfast. I'm keeping my distance ... don't want to disturb him and get stung!