Hello again
everybody.
I do happen to
keep bunching my posts together, but better all together than none at all J.
This post is a bit
of a mish-mash of photos I’ve taken recently.
First of all, this
is a photo of a pond that I made outside one of my shade houses. Sorry for the terrible photo, it was getting
just to dark to keep gardening and working on it so I thought I’d take my
chance with taking a photo.
Now in the pond
itself is a little Water Lily;
Some Louisiana
Irises, these flowered last year but I somehow forgot to get a photo. I started off with a medium sized plant and
in the space of a year it has simply tripled in size….. I LOVE IT!
Also, ontop of
some bricks and inside a shallow tray of water are my wittle carnivores who are
starting to send up new shoots/traps/pitchers/leaves like no tomorrow, I’m
loving this weather as it warms up.
Then on the side
is my weirdo mystery plant, and a bromeliad, then in the pot underneath the
pond is a Richmond Birdwing Butterfly Vine, of which there is a long story
about, but I’m very tired, so perhaps another time. Then above the pond is a
Bird’s Nest Fern, a couple of other bromeliads and a Crucifix Orchid or
Epidendrum radicans.
This little guy
seriously has to be the coolest christmas present I have ever gotten from a
teacher, we talk about gardening all the time together and then before
christmas/summer holidays we always buy each other a git that is gardening
related, it’s good fun. I have him
standing under my snap dragons, but I need to come up with a name for him… I’m
not sure, I’m tossing up between Tangle Goblintwist, Spider Willowsnap and Ash
Elfembers. Which do you prefer, or do
you have a suggestion?
Now this thing,
this is from my Nepenthes Gothica, this was a massive pitcher, the pitchers
doubled in size from the ones that were at the gardening store, to when it got
back to my house, however it has just produced another pitcher some months
after this photo was taken, and I believe that the cold weather may be what has
caused the newest pitcher to be smaller than this one.
And then just some
miscilaneous photos
Beautiful photos as usual, Michael! I love your pond. I follow a few people on instagram that have essentially turned buckets into mini ponds, just to be able to grow a water lily in their yard or on their apartment decks. I want to do this so badly, it's not even funny. I just think it looks so creative! Do you do anything to circulate the water, or is it not really necessary?
ReplyDeleteAlso, nice Gothica! Such a nice cross.
Deleteawwww shucks, thanks Melody ☺
I’ve seen a couple of buckets that have been made so that both water lilies and carnivores can live in them, when i get some time I’m definitely going to try it out and share some photos of it too ☺ LOL, I’m starting to love ponds more and more, I’ve already got 2 and they are full of tadpoles, it's great.
I haven't got anything to circulate that water because the tadpoles get sucked into the filter and the frogs won't lay their eggs in the ponds. though I do have some little fish and the tadpoles to eat all the mosquitos
and I’m definitely going to be getting me some more nepenthes, I just love 'em.
Love the pictures and you made me wanna search for Osteospermums again! I had some at our previous place, but by the coast I am not sure, yet I must try, lovely flowers.
ReplyDeleteHey, glad you liked them, i thought that i'd lost my osteospermum a while back, but after giving it a hell of a prune and plenty of water its sprung back to life and flowering like mad :) i'd forgotten just how much i love the one in the photo above.
Deletemy sister bought it for me from Bunnings some time last year.... she's good to me :)
hopefully you'll be able to get another one