Old Cypress Gardens............

Cypress Gardens is no more................but looking thru some old photos I was reminded how pretty it was.............it had to take a lot of work to maintain it for sure.........
Sorry it is gone............

Pothos Flower...........

In my travels today I happened upon an old pothos vine that had a flower........what a suprise.........
Now if I only had some pollen for it...........but of course not..........oh well........maybe next time.......from the looks of the inflorescence it is definitely a member of the family ARACEAE.

A Couple of Orchids...........

From the back corner in the research house we keep a few abused orchids.....
Today 2 were in flower.....
I like them a lot since they are not lavender.....

Orchids are not my favorite plant since they just sit there and do not respond much to my attemps at babying them.....So I ignore them and they flower...that is a good thing I guess....

Zucchini....and Mosaic Mom......

Below is Mosaic Mom's 2010 Zucchini crop.........awesome as usual.....
First harvest was yesterday.........now the horde of Z's is coming........
They grow 2 inches a day......and just keep going.....
Zucchini is the plant that made MM switch from journalism to horticulture......
If not for Zucchini we would not have met.......
YEAH for Zucchini........we will always grow a Z crop......

New Shade Area at Work..............

Built a temporary shade structure at work today.........it has 0, 30 and 50% shade...........
We have a student intern who is going to grow Adenium under different light levels.....
The plants are potted and will be set out tomorrow.....
We also have plans to evaluate some other plants under different light levels....
This will be a fun structure to work in......once I recover from today......
We will make it look pretty later......

Yellow Amaryllis............

Pictured is a yellowis amaryllis from the landscape at work........The flowers are smaller than the normal types and they appear a few weeks later..........I like yellow flowers and this could be an interesting plant for breeding.......Too bad that I have enough projects going at this time.....but it could be something for the future...........

Giant Florida Butterfly...........

Took this photo a Cypress Gardens, Florida..........glad I did...........it closed several years ago...........
They had some neat stuff though...........

Our Loquats came and will come again............

We had a nice crop of loquats this year in spite of some fruit damage due to freezes.....
They are really good.....
Funny thing is that we will get a second harvest in a few weeks......this has never happened before and we are not sure why.....maybe some latent effect from all the cold.....
Anyway we are happy about this suprise.
Our selected variety (photo below) has many fruit up to 2 inches in diameter......and they taste great.....

2 Signs Spring is here for sure.............

The amaryllis are starting to flower.....

The first squash flower of the season has appeared..........

Can't beat that..................

Wild Flower Photo..............

A friend of ours sent this photo of wild flowers from California...........Awesome..........
Almost as pretty of our blueberry flowers...........and what that leads to............

Blueberries and Bees

In my first attempt to grow blueberries, I was unhappy with the fruit set. This year the number of bees visiting the blueberries was also low due to poor weather.

In desperation, I stole a blooming broccoli from Mosaicmom’s garden and used it as an attractant for the little buzzers! It worked. They came for the broccoli and found the luscious blueberry flowers and now I am scanning the internet for blueberry recipes.

So in a couple of weeks, we will have fresh blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, and loquats simultaneously. Our fruit life is good.