well I got the crazy idea that I could take some more pics today. NOT a good picture taker here at all but still trying. I really need to invest in a good digital camera instead of this polaroid izone that i'm using. It's totally worthless. Well here is an assortment of pics taken today of various things in the garden.
Anyone guess what this one is? It's a rumpless cat minus a head. All she has is a puff. No bone or anything in that spot just a tuft of hair.
this one is of my desert rose.
a hibiscus from Logee's called morning glory
these should have been posted on another thread concerning marbleing in brug flowers. Someone posted earlier this week that one of their pink favorite flowers had a marbled effect. Well this is my ecuador pink and the flower is 2 days old so it should be totally pink by now but here it is.
Our temps have dropped down into the low 60's now at night so i'm thinking this may have something to do with it.
another shot of the same flower
I have more but will stop for now. Getting hungry and my granny is waiting for me to pick here up for dinner.
Hope you had a great dinner with your Granny!
Your plants are great. The marbling I think is so pretty! It probably will pass too soon.
In your time zone can you keep that hibiscus out all year? It sure looks big. Is it in the ground?
Your poor kitty, what did you do to him? LOL
Kell,
Dinner was great.Thaks for the comment on the plants.The hibiscus stays in a large pot and goes into the greenhouse for the winter. I also have fifth dimension that I got from Logee's and ist's really pretty. The one in the picture is still open today because it's been so cool here the past few nights. It should have been closed this morning.
As for that poor tailess cat that is how she was born. Her mother seemed to throw kittens with either crooked tails or just little nubs. This is the first and only that has come with no tail at all not even bone just a poof and that's it.
Don't know what i'll do with all of these plants next week. Hurricane Isabel is up to 160mph winds now with gusts over 200 and the forecast for the east coast ,and I am less than one mile from the ocean is not good.I'm going out as soon as I get from in front of this computer and take cuttigns for myself and put in small pots with lables just in case. Because if that strom comes in here like that i'm sure there is'nt much going to be left of my brug plants.
I like the rumpless cat! I had a litter of kittens once that must had a tailess father. Out of a litter of 6 babies, 4 of them had no tail or just a little stub for a tail. They were the cutest lil thangs with their bare butts!
Very pretty pics Cat
this is another of my stapelias in bloom. This one is called stapelia gigantea AKA hairy starfish flower. If you can not stand the combined smell of bleu cheese,underarm,dirty feet and dog poop then you better not try to grow one of these. The flowers are beuatiful but use flies if you can imagine (not butter either but plain old flies) for pollination thus the smell in order to attract any and every fly that will land on them.
another shot of the same flower taken with me lying flat on my back on the gh floor. I grow somewhere around 70 varieties of these with flowers ranging in size from 18 inches being the largest down to the smallest being about the size of a garden pea
this is another smaller variety that just opened today.
This one is know as stapelia tsomoensis. Don't ask me how to pronounce that, I had hard enough time trying to spell it
I love your pictures of your flowering plants in your garden! I think I'll pass on the Stapelia tsomoensis, eventhough the bloom is very pretty. I'm not into the ones that "knock you off your feet" with one whiff of their unusual aroma! I'll just gaze at your lovely pictures and admire them "from-a-far".
You would NOT believe were I have been vacationing for the past week!!!! Would you believe Mrytle Beach, Surfside Beach & of course, dinner at Murrell's Inlet! Some of the BEST seafood around!! Little did I know that you lived there!!! Maybe next time we'll be able to meet!!
Loved visiting Brookgreen Gardens too! I'll post some pictures of the lovely gardens & sculptures soon.
Right under my nose and didn't even know it. Brookgreen is outstanding. My grandmother is retired from there after 18 years of service and I still have an aunt and uncle that both work there. I just visited the gardens myself a few weeks ago. In fact you would have had to pass my house in order to get to brookgreen.
Small world! Yes, Brookgreen Gardens was lovely. They really steer away from using a lot of flowering plants, except in the Children's Garden. Excellent use of foliage plants, ornamental grasses, conifers, evergreen shrubs and fountains. Of course, the beautiful sculptures interwined through the pastoral setting really lends an elegance to the manicured gardens. I especially enjoyed the sculpture of a man sitting on a bench reading a newspaper. Comic relief puncutated the tranquil surroundings. Hope I can return to these beautiful gardens in the Springtime to see the wonderful and magical changes that occur with the changing of each season.
Love your plants. I have never seen them before. I wonder if Happenstance grows them also, she seems to like that sort of plant.
I think that maybe the cool night temps might be having that effect on your EP because the warmer it is, the darker pink mine gets. Just an uneducated guess . .LOL
Enjoyed seeing your other plants and your cat. My cat is also black and white.
