Blooming Orchids

orchid cactus

Winter Blooming Flowers

Clivia

Bletilla Orchid



Tiny Tim Tolumnia Orchid

Amaryllis

Crazy orchid cactus

This plant was a hand-me-off from neighbors in Ithaca. For the first time ever, it bloomed, and how! Now we know why some call it the cinderella of the garden world. It is the same Genus as our night blooming cereus, which is Epiphyllum oxypetalum.

Indoor Greenery

one way to help make it through the winter without missing the garden too much is to bring the outdoors indoors. we have been forcing paperwhite and amaryllis bulbs and have a bunch of other greenery that helps to help bring color and cheer to every room.

birthday flowers...

amaryllis

paperwhites

paperwhite and rabbit's foot fern

button fern and vanilla orchid

rosemary- blooming for the first time!!

we dug up a small bit of the swampy woods behind's tim's folks backyard and put it in this terrarium.

it ended up sprouting a little plant we didn't know was in there! it has not be identified yet.

Where Gardens Grow There Might Be....

Cedar Apple Rust! Host plants being Juniper and usually Apple, but also others in the Rose family, we definitely have a nice sized guest bed for this fungal disease.

The Growing Garden

The new garden continues to grow, a little faster than we can manage! Here's a glimpse of new plantings...

tomatoes and sugar snap peas in pots

multiflora rose and houseplants (orchid cactus?)

clematis...

blueberries!

strawberries...

wee lettuce

chives

allium

What's Blooming, May 2010

Unleashing the VIBRANT colors of spring. We discover what exactly is growing in our garden... azaleas in pink and red

flowering dogwood, Cornus florida

common lilac, Syringa vulgaris

white azalea

invasive olive (Elaeagnus umbellata)

lily of the valley, Convallaria majalis

bridal wreath spirea

more azaleas...

This goldenchain tree, Laburnum x watereri, is unfortunately not on our property, but is on the next street over.

beautybush, Kolkwitzia amabilis

red roses, pink spirea and purple irises

on the top is spirea, on the bottom, gas plant

spiderwort...