Yesterday, while spraying Messenger around the hoyas hanging outdoors...I found a small peduncle forming blooms on my H. erythrina!!!! And, when I went to cut up my H. serpens for propagation material...it is full of peduncles... NO WAY am I gonna cut that baby!!!...
I know it should feel like "old hat" but the thrill isn't gone!!!
Carol
I am so excited!!!
Congrats, Carol! I am salivating over all of the beautiful images you posted on DG. You're a very talented grower. I hope that I, too, can become very good at growing my plants. I love them all SO!
GH
It is so exciting isn't it Carol. I must have a couple dozen with new spurs on them. I find myself out there looking at them every few hours.
I'll thrilled for you too Carol, do we get to see pictures?
Blessings,
Awanda
I don't think this will ever become "old hat"! I come home from work every day and walk the plants examining each one of them. I think DH does it every morning. He claims to be a musician but I swear he spends a whole lot more time fussing with the plants than picking the strings. I walk out in the dark with a flashlight to stick my nose in one of the brug blooms. I've watched moths fluttering in the moonlight on the night blooming jasmine and it's always a thrill.
I spend just about every weekend so dirty I have to send one of the kids out for grocerys because I won't stop to take a bath or change clothes.
Kid rearing humor. A few years ago my youngest son threatened to call Children's Protective Services and tell them his parents had not left the back yard all weekend and he was hungry. You can imagine how hard we laughed as we were handing him the cordless phone.
Well..I never thought I would live long enough to see H. erythrina bloom!!!
I would like to take a lot of credit for growing good plants...but I can't. I just hang em on a bamboo pole and fertilize once in a while (and untwine them ). Mother Nature does the rest...she must be a hoya addict too!!
It's probably the drugs I give them!!! LOL..SuperThrive and Messenger....hot stuff.
Carol
I hear you, Night Bloomer. I also stumble out into the night to smell the Brugs.
The first time I put my Son behind the wheel of a car, I let him drive me to a nursery 20 miles from home. I ended up buying a ginger in a 4 gallon pot and carefully placed it in the back seat. As Brad approached an intersection where you have to merge against oncoming traffic, he hit the brakes and the plant went flying and lodged behind the drivers seat. Rather than watching what he was doing, I was trying to save the plant. As I turned around, Brad was merging right into a semi!! I screamed at him and he screamed at me and luckily we missed the truck!! I will NEVER live that one down!!!
I can hear the sound of your heart pumping over here :)
Susan,
I wore a hole in the passenger side carpet pumping those imaginary breaks!! I was more excited about Brad getting his drivers liscence than he was. I can honestly tell you that I saw my life flash before me more than one time!!! There were also many a trip that I had to keep my eyes closed and my body braced for impact.
Mel