lblanchard | Garden journal / dear diary (Reply)

The last three flowers on the 'gervase' are fading. I think one of them will last long enough that I can show our grand-daughter Sara when she gets here some time this afternoon. There are stronger hints that the second pollination has taken.

The last flower on the second scape of 'exotica' is opening, with another stalk behind that -- making this one a three-stalk amaryllis. I wonder if I'll be able to maintain it at that peak of productivity in future years.

Downstairs, my favorite of the two seedlings has finished its bloom, with the other one still going strong -- in fact, #2 had three flowers on its scape. The parent plant is looking good as well.

I am down to my last 10 flowers on Nopalxochia, one of which is sure to collapse today.

A visit from the grand-daughter will be good. I wonder what she'll be like -- they change their personas so from year to year...

ADDENDUM: Some time last week (I think), I powered up my computer and got a "the volume is dirty" and mandatory scan of my little portable external hard drive. This made me unhappy, so I spent money on a 1 TB Iomega drive (desktop, not portable). I fired it up last night and backed up all 55 MB of data files. As soon as I've finished burning CDs of all my image files, I may delete them from this computer and just have them live on the external. That might make this one run better...