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Re: What's growing on?

James Gray wrote:
> 
> Let's see, what's looking good on the porch today?
> 

Here's a post-stormy weekend update on my plants, if you're all
interested.

> 
> Various unidentified cacti are growing fine.  I have one that has big
> lacy yellow flowers and one that's kind of squat with smaller red
> flowers.  Also, I have one that's got these hairy tumor-things growing
> out of the top in a ring.  Are these flowerbuds or fruits or just the
> way it grows?  They seem to be getting bigger...
>

Turns out the "tumors" are buds.  One of them just exploded into this
BIG pearly-pink flower on Friday afternoon.  The one with the yellow
flowers is setting another bud up for opening, and the red-flowered one
is due for an unfolding today.
 

> 
> An echeveria, the Mexican Snowball, I think.  It's kind of
> bluish-greenish-white with the powdery bloom.

Medic!  The wind blew my newly acquired mandevilla off the ledge on
Saturday, taking the echeveria with it.  Massive damage to the
echeveria, but it survived. Looks a little denuded and scarred, but it's
alive.  The mandevilla, monster that it is, managed just fine, although
I lost the biggest bud. *sigh*


> 
> A boweia volubilis that I'm pretty much ignoring except for a trickle of
> water every now and then.  When I paid attention to it, it tried to die
> on me!
> 
As it turns out, this one was suicidal!  One second it was right there
in the pot and when I came back from the front yard, poof! Gone!  I
looked around and found it lying on the porch floor about 3 feet in
front of the pot.  Weird...

> 
> Purple Wave Petunia...I love this thing!  It's grown about 3 feet in the
> month since I bought it.  It's in a hanging basket and it's just about
> to throw about forty-seven bushels of neon purple flowers!
> 
Hee hee!  My mom keeps asking me what I gave it.  She apparently thinks
I tried some kind of mad scientist formula on it or something.  Of
course, all it is is lots of sun and Peter's Flowering Food...and darn
good genetics!  Can't do this with a normal petunia... :)

-- 
Botanical Name of the Week: Knifophia, one of the more nearly perfect
fittings of name to form.

Jim Gray 
jjg@c-cor.com
Altoona, PA: Zone 6A
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