Category: Gardening (Page 1 of 160)

Yesterday was church and work. And some rest. (I wasn’t very efficient with my work). I have no pictures from the day, but here’s something from Saturday morning breakfast:

It’s a pineapple seed! Have I ever seen a pineapple seed? I mean, I’m sure pineapples make seeds, but I think I never paid attention to them. How fun!

I did not take it home with me. I have a little bit of an overcrowding problem with plants right now.

The orchids in my bathroom continue to LOVE it there. I can’t believe how much they boom! My pink doritaenopsis has been blooming almost constantly since I got it a year and a half ago.

This is what it does:

The flowers are almost done and just all falling off when up from the bottom comes a new bloom stem:

In a few weeks, I’ll have a whole new stem full of flowers!

When I got home yesterday, I went out to water my plants. They’re all growing well. Except something is eating my rose leaves. I should figure out what it is and take countermeasures. (I just looked it up. It looks like leafcutter bees, which are pollinators. There’s nothing I can do. But also, it’s not going to kill the roses, so that’s good.)

In the back yard, I was surprised to see that one of my amaryllis plants is blooming again. What? Does that happen? I thought they bloomed, grew leaves, went dormant, and THEN bloomed again. This plant is doing it wrong. But it’s beautfiul!

While I was out there, I saw that some of my figs were ripe. There were also calamondin oranges. Behold my bounty!

Yesterday was a day of rest (and denial). School is coming soon.

I did do some household stuff, so that was nice. Probably the most notable thing was that I trimmed the palm trees in front of the house. I don’t really like the trees, so I’m not super motivated to work on them, but there were a lot of dead leaves, and I didn’t want the neighbors to start talking…

Here’s the before and after:

I worked in my garden yesterday. I was trying to clean up and re-arrange the table area by the pool.

One of my tasks was to prune my potted jade plants. I trimmed away the lower branches to make them look more tree-like.

While I was working on one of them, I saw something very exciting – moa plants (Psilotum nudum). I know these because they are native to Hawaii, but they are not endemic, which means they grow elsewhere. Their English common name is Upright Whiskfern. I wanted so very badly to have one of these when I lived on Maui, and now I have one that just grew by itself!

In the picture below, the moa plant is the thin vertical plant. My camera focused on everything but it.

The results of my cleanup aren’t really very impressive-looking, but it is much neater looking than it was.

Now I just need some dining chairs.