And look who else thinks it's spring right now! Yup! The weather warmed up and all 20 decided to start laying! They've been slacking all winter and now they went into over time!
Just a little O/T, but look who's lookin' all pretty
And this one is for you Critter, sure wish I had 'smell-i-vision' for you too!
(just imagine vanilla and honey and sweet syrup!)
this asclepias never has stopped blooming. I have LOTS of seeds if anyone wants to send a SASE.
This little Euphorbia (millii?) looks to me like little baby birds with their mouth open waiting for mom to bring a worm.
Can't remember who this one is. But they're all trying to compete for most blooms right now.
Here's a New Guinea impatien that I've been trying to kill since last year.
Oh wow all the pretties. Great Begonia you have green arms !
Your plants/flowers outside are wonderful. Do they come up every year but can be grown by seed ? I'd send you SASE !
The eggs oh my hubby would love them ! are they from one day ? You put lot's of warm smiles on me with all these lovely pictures :))
Oh we love New Guinea impatien ! Robert had like 7 of them one deepest orange /coral ? Can you believe he had them potted like 8 years and other Impatients too . Some how we lost them. A few Impatients he put them in the ground last year on their last legs but they never stopped blooming all winter.
Well the photos from today are all out of the greenhouse and the others at the beginning are all outside. some are by seed, not all.
I'll bring the asclepias for you when I come, I also have red available if anyone wants it.
I get about 20 eggs a day when they are at their peak. Otherwise, easily a dozen a day. These are yesterday and today's eggs. I 'trade' them all summer. I have friends who work for wineries and they give me wine, I give them eggs, and zucchini, tomatoes, basil etc.
My gals get lots of greens and bugs. I toss them all the slugs/snails from the greenhouse. I cut that chard up above for them and feed it along with fresh grass and left overs etc. They are healthy (vegetarians, except for the bugs) eaters.
Here's Dr. Seuss brug. Blooming it's head off - the fragrance is divine!
Oh I can smell it. And it's all blooming now. Is it warmer there Laurie there than here ?
Begonia 'iron cross' is pushing lots of new growth. (I have leaves down so hopefully I'll have some babies to share soon)
It's 77º inside my playhouse and high 60's outside in the shade right now. It's 'shorts' weather today, and has been all week.
Feels like spring is here, a bee keeper friend said his queen laid eggs already and it's early for her. The roses are popping out and so are the grapes in the vineyards. This weather has all the winerys in a snit because they are worried we'll have bud break and then a hard freeze (which happens alot). They turn on these huge wind machines (fans) all over the valley to keep the frost from settling on the new growth.
my greenhouse is heated at night when it's cold enough. But yesterday it was hotter than 120º and I had to try and cool it down fast or everyone gets too hot. If I don't open it up and turn on the fans early enough, it can get hot like that. Obviosly the plants love it!
I'm just happy that we aren't having any rain. We had a long wet spell and I'm sick of it for now.
here's begonia 'Stephen Brigham'
I had some supermarket kalanchoe months ago that I took cuttings of and popped into little clay pots, 'cause I didn't have the heart to throw the cuttings away and now look at them...
And some more. What can a girl do with 20 of them? (hey Lorry, are you looking at those succulents in the back? let me know who you want , you too Critter!)
I want a green house...((POUT))...
I have seeds for Dragon Wings Begonia - not sure that I can winter sow them, so I'll give it a shot indoors. Laurie - have you started from seed??
Oh wow 'Stephen Brigham' awesome !
'iron cross' that's so neat how the cross pateren can grow on the foliage.
You are having warmer weather than us. Soon enough we will be real hot.
the much coveted b. luxurians, the begonia that can get to 8' tall! this was my first DG trade!
Anita, if your seeds don't take, I'll be giving mine hair cuts soon enough and will have plenty of cuttngs of both pink and red and b. richmondensis too.
In the past, when I've given them haircuts, I've just stuck the canes in any old pot of soil and in a few weeks they root and poof, they are blooming!
Here's a b. richmondensis, very easy to grow.
kalanchoe look them grow ! Laurie can I have one of those succulents I've always wante one fthem :)) Pretty
please !
If I was to come back andhave a new life I'd havesome Greenhouse just like yours .
Thanks Laurie - I'll let you know..
b. luxurians wowhow old is yours ? Do they grow outside ever .?
Of course! Which one do you want, a kalanchoe or one of the others in the photo? I'll pack them in my suitcase, they're pretty hardy. I have hundreds of succulents and they're happy right now!
Anyone else want to trade for them later when the rest of the country warms up let me know. I threw away a lot of Aloe last year due to lack of space.
this year, I just left them outside of the green house, if they survived the freeze, then more power to em' and I'll pot them up later this spring.
Even my EE's made it with just a sheet over them. (knock on wood)
The succulents blooming you said youhad 20 of !
I've seen it at the arboretum in San Francisco (that 's where it was 8' tall and at Annies Annuals nursery, theirs was over 5' tall). So they grow outside in the bay area (which is warmer than me due to the coastal influence).
I got mine when I joined DG (August? ) I did a trade with a nice person who lives in SFO.
I wouldn't leave mine outside here since we are so much colder. When it came, it was tiny and then protested for a long time. Then dropped all of it's leaves and now you can see it's happy again (about 8" tall now). Somewhere I have another photo of it, I'll try and find it.
Ok, I have pink, yellow or peach I think. I'll go look again. Those are all the double flowering variety and I have single yellow too.
Here's my b. luxurians after I received it. It was so mad and it dropped both of these sets of leaves and then settled down and grew again.
the other thing I did was pot it into a pot too big. I should have left it alone. (I know better now)
When they were real tall like that were they in bloom ?
I can imagine the beauty .
I took a photo of one blooming at a nursery in Oakland not long ago (november?) check out plant files.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/93519/
Oh wow I love them. The one large picture where it shows the red in the foliage. I wonder if it could be grown outside here ? Everything else is growing even with our 30 degree nights.
That is incredible! What a plant. I would have to treat that like an annual as I wouldn't have room in my house to bring it in for the winter :-((
I might be able to grow in the ground or pots ? Even my night blooming Cerus is out all year. If it gets real cold chance of frost hubby brings plants into screen
room close to house wall and covers with sheets.
WOW!!!
Here's a new photo of the begonia I got this winter at Dutch Plant Farm (favorite LGS)... in bloom!!
The other plant stuck into the pot is a cutting of trailing coleus.
