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Re: What's growing on?

Lots of thing looking good here, though not on the porch.

After six months of intensive central heating, the babies are coming back to
life.

Three of my 7 african violets are now in bloom and soon all will be.

My string of beads (senecio rowleyanus) has turned to a nicer green and has
started new growth and even flowered!

My Yucca has put out two new leaves, and looks wonderful after the good
shower I just gave him.

Calla lilies are in bloom (yellow and pink) with plenty of beautiful
foliage. My non-variegated one looks real good in the morning with those
tiny water droplets at the tip of each leaf (too bad  they evaporate in the
afternoon).

Cannas have lots of foliage out but have yet to see the blooms. Same for
Babiana and Brodiaea.

My passiflora seedlings are growing like crazy. They seem to put out leaves
everyday. At this rate it will overcrowd my window in no time.

The creeping ficus that almost died this winter is looking green and healthy
again.

The cactus and succulent family are enjoying the extra hours of sunlight. My
pachyphytum and cotyledon have found their silvery surface again. They had
lost a lot of color this winter.

Oh and Gynura (purple velvet) is really happy now. I even took a couple of
cuttings from it this spring that rooted quite fast. The color of it is
great.

And that's about it. I could continue but there are so many I would never
finish : )

Helga

James Gray wrote:

> Let's see, what's looking good on the porch today?
>
> The Gasteria's blooming, big (3' on a 6 inch plant!) branching stalks of
> orange and green tubular flowers. This is the one Mom's afraid of! :)
>
> The Haworthia is also in bloom, with a bit more sedate attitude.  1 foot
> stalks on an 8 inch plant, with little green and white tube flowers.
> BTW, how hard is it to get haworthia offsets divided and growing by
> themselves?  This plant is a major clump!
>
> 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...
>
> Beaucarnia is doing fine.  Not big yet.  It was a garden center
> special.  Multiple moptops, since they had cut the main fountain off.
> Don't ask me...they didn't tell me why...
>
> Large amounts of hens and chicks that are temporary denizens of the
> houseplant realm...they're waiting patiently for me to figure out where
> to put them in the garden.
>
> Big old aloe of some kind.  Well, not really BIG, but bigger than I
> usually see this type.  Not the messy, floppy vera, but the neater,
> thicker rosette type.  Lots of little offsets.
>
> An echeveria, the Mexican Snowball, I think.  It's kind of
> bluish-greenish-white with the powdery bloom.
>
> Hoya carnosa.  God, I can't wait to see if this one blooms this year!
> It's growing like crazy, though...nasty-looking naked whips reaching
> across the porch...
>
> The sprekelias are faded...sigh.  They are gorgeous flowers when they
> come out.  I'm trying to grow the one to seed, so I can raise more next
> year without paying $3 per bulb...
>
> A columbine seedling waiting to be transplanted to the shade garden.
>
> A rescued aechmea and family.  The main vase is already flowered and
> faded.  I rescued it from a bargain shelf at Lowe's, along with a
> vriesea and a neoregelia that were fading in the same pot, all with
> offsets.  I lost the neoregelia while repotting.  The vriesia offset is
> just fine!  And the aechmea is VERY grateful...not only do I have the
> three pups it already had on it when I rescued it, it has begun two
> more!
>
> Another vriesia, carinata this time.  She's starting to look healthier
> than she did at the office.  She's put up three pups, too!
>
> 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!
>
> A cute little syngonium, with rust-red leaves.  Another rescue...this
> one was drowning in two inches of water under a greenhouse bench with
> about 6 inches of thick old water root growing out of the hole of a 2
> inch pot.  It's just happy now!
>
> Tuberoses.  I just want them to survive long enough to flower, anyway!
>
> Tillandsias.  I have a regular air plant (big though, for one of
> these...about 6 inches in diameter) and a Spanish moss.
>
> 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!
>
> A weird kind of mutation of birdsnest fern.  This one is called
> "Victoria" and it almost looks like a cross between birdsnest and
> hartstongue ferns.  Thick wavy fronds in a rosette around a "nest" of
> fibers that the fiddleheads emerge from.
>
> African Violet.  Optimara hybrid "Indian Summer" in a candyjar
> terrarium.
>
> Fatshedera lizei, growing bushy.  Pinched it back about three weeks ago.
>
> Homalomena.  I love this plant!  It just keeps growing, and growing, and
> growing...and the foliage is gorgeous.  Big ribbed hearts on long,
> graceful stems.  Beautiful.
>
> Button fern in the kitchen...I keep forgetting it's there but it's
> forgiving.  If I forget to water it, it still comes back.  I really
> ought to move this to the porch so I'll remember to water it when I do
> the others...
>
> Oh, and a big bucket of ivy!  I'm trying to train it to a sphere...it
> listens about as well as the cat...
>
> --
> Botanical name of the week: Kolkwitzia....doesn't tell me a thing about
> the plant; I just like to say it! :)
>
> Jim Gray
> jjg@c-cor.com
> Altoona, PA: Zone 6A
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