Today's flower picture...
Mar. 25th, 2010 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lblanchard...was actually taken yesterday afternoon, as I marveled at the way the center band on one of these tepals looks like satin. I did a bit of reading on Teh Google about this variety, 'gervase,' and found that one of its characteristics is variability from flower to flower and even from tepal to tepal.
In other gardening news, we policed the back area a little more last night, and I potted up 30 hippeastrum bulbs from the Class of 2009. I found an online forum of enthusiastic hippeastrum propagators, who identified my first one as Fairy Tale, although it will always be Trader Joe to me...
Over on Facebook, I found there were a couple of folks whose political commentary could wind me up -- as much by the underlying tone of "I am a philosopher-king setting you peasants straight" as anything else. Two tenured professors, one neighbor. They're entitled to their views of course, but I really don't want to read them along with my morning coffee. Since FB doesn't allow the same kind of friends filters that LJ does, I simply unfriended them.
Some days I wonder how many folks on LJ have filtered me out.... but that's okay. One of the nice things about LJ is that you can filter someone out when they're on a tear and unfilter them when all they're doing is posting about their flowers.
Speaking of which, there are five flowers in bloom at once on my Nopalxochia, with twice that many behind them in the pipeline. I think last year I had five flowers in total!
In other gardening news, we policed the back area a little more last night, and I potted up 30 hippeastrum bulbs from the Class of 2009. I found an online forum of enthusiastic hippeastrum propagators, who identified my first one as Fairy Tale, although it will always be Trader Joe to me...
Over on Facebook, I found there were a couple of folks whose political commentary could wind me up -- as much by the underlying tone of "I am a philosopher-king setting you peasants straight" as anything else. Two tenured professors, one neighbor. They're entitled to their views of course, but I really don't want to read them along with my morning coffee. Since FB doesn't allow the same kind of friends filters that LJ does, I simply unfriended them.
Some days I wonder how many folks on LJ have filtered me out.... but that's okay. One of the nice things about LJ is that you can filter someone out when they're on a tear and unfilter them when all they're doing is posting about their flowers.
Speaking of which, there are five flowers in bloom at once on my Nopalxochia, with twice that many behind them in the pipeline. I think last year I had five flowers in total!
