My garden is mostly succulents, as you have all heard 1000 times. They all bloom if you wait long enough so here are some of them and some that are not. The Life Saver plant above is a succulent.
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I have a tendency to take broken parts of plants and stick them into whatever bowl is closest with some soil available. That leads to lots of bowls like this with various succulents growing together. The delicate orange/pink flowers on this are so pretty. It is an echeveria. There a lots of varieties of them. The round cactus in the back is a “red headed irishman” and it gets a little circle of pink flowers on the top of its “head” when it blooms.
This is the lantana that grows at my pond. It gets very lush and beautiful. I have a yellow one in the planter but its not blooming right now. The tall spikes you see are dwarf cat tails and will bloom little cat tails that look like mini corn dogs! They will come at the end of the season. There are lily pads in the lower right corner. Better picture of them is below.
This is one of the water lilies. This one opened later in the day and the smaller one came up through the water the next day. This is the only one I got this year that is really blooming and it has a lot of buds on it below the water. The fronds in the top of the picture are papyrus.
Here you can see the curly and the straight leafed hoya and the flowers you see are blooming on both kinds. There is a 3rd one in this pot that has heart shaped leaves but no matter the shape of the leaves, the flowers are the same. These look like they are made of porcelain.
This is a ruby red carnation that my BFF gave me when Rubi, dog of my heart died. It has bloomed every year during May, when she died. It has been blooming longer in the last couple of years. It smells great and reminds me so much of her. Various ferns surround it.
These are flowers in waiting on my Queen of the Night cactus plants. I have more than 16 buds on two different plants. My BFF gave me these cuttings from her plants and one year, she had 32 huge flowers bloom all on the same night. I hope all of these blooms but not all at once!
I am ending here with not a flower but a bug! This is a praying mantis, about an inch and a half long that crawled up on my arm while I was working in the pond. I took him over to this spider plant and let him crawl onto it. Then he turned his head and watched me for a while with those big eyes. He was probably born in my garden last year.
This is the end of the botany lesson for today. I leave this meme that I saw last week on the Good News Roundup. It says it all.
