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| GARDENING IN A PANDEMIC |
Welcome back, friends. (I write as though there is actually an audience out there. This type of delusion is common in an epidemic--so they say.)
Here is the circular garden design, as promised:
At the base of the palm we find the Argentinian Morning Glory (Ipomoea platensis ) comfortably ensconced. Notice the large caudex. (My editor suggests I define such words as 'caudex,' but I am too lazy to act upon such valuable advice.)
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| Ipomoea platensis |
The palm (Roystonea regia or Royal Palm).
June 15, 2020 update: the Morning Glory blooms gloriously!
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| A slight problem! |
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| Morning glory tries to strangulate Lemon-Drop Mangosteen. Bad. Unexpected problems often plague the keen gardener. |
wow!
ReplyDeleteas it happens, i have just learned the word caudex - when googling (terrible word) about my adenium. who would have thought about that? 😅
an argentinian morning glory!!! i must google this too... though i supposed everything growing there won't survive here anyway.
you even put little arrows on the pic:))))
There are succulent collectors (do you want a list of their names and addresses?) who only seek caudexes: adeniums, cucurbits, et cetera. Others, such as myself, are more eclectic in temperament and collect anything vaguely green or stationary .
DeleteYou didn't say anything about my fine cartoon work. A budding Roy Lichtenstein.
what do you mean, your cartoon work? hmmm... it's so cute and i liked it a lot :-) you don't mean to tell me that you made it?! it says "GFT" there, whatever those initials mean...
DeleteOh no! It's meant to read 6 ft (the ubiquitously quoted social distancing advice we get in the Americas). But, of course, your part of the world is measured in metric and that's what threw you off.
DeleteBut GFT might have been the initials of the new Banksy!!!
haha
Deletei am still laughing about, i showed it to Kiki too and now she's laughing as well... i am so sorry, i really read GFT (talking about how one's expectations influence the result).
but we are both blown away but the cartoons, they are soooo good - i can't believe it, you've got another - so well hidden - talent! when did you start drawing cartoons?! surely this can't be the work of a beginner, they are toooooo good...
A clash of cultures. Everyday we here the phrase 'keep 6 feet apart,' but that's different for you. Funny crossing of wires, though.
DeleteI just started to draw ( as a response to pandemic isolation, no doubt). They are slightly more advanced than stick figures, yet the work of a complete amateur; nevertheless, they are colorful: I'll grant you that.
ps. please fix the ragged ends of the lines in your posts, choose justify as formatting option, my eyes hurt like this (now he will think that his blog audience is hopelessly demented, even before the pandemic 😅)
ReplyDeleteFormatting! Man, this blog thing is a lot of work. Gardening is so much simpler: broadcast a handful of seeds and water. Voila.
DeleteNevertheless, I'll look into it (maybe it's the red background or my byzantine writing style that hurts your eyes--I know it hurts mine).
yes, i thought about the red background but decided i should give it a pass :-P
ReplyDeleteFunny that little Garcinia intermedia looks like a tiny lemon seedling.
ReplyDeleteIt does. But here is an interesting fact which concerns both citrus and Garcinias: they are polyembryonic (I may write a post about this later). So, a single lemon seed may produce several seedlings--and most of these seedlings will be exact replicas of the mother tree. This is important because most experts insist that citrus trees must be grafted in order to produce and exact clone. (I apologize for the lengthy observation and the dig--pun intended--at experts in general).
DeleteNote: one of the three Garcinias I planted has a double sprout.
Awesome!
DeleteAwesome!
Deleteah!!! i didn't know there was an update to this post, with drama no less, beautiful flowers and murderous dreams!
ReplyDeletei didn't know there was an update to this post... Neither did I.
DeleteAnd yes, I feel Lady Macbeth, probably hiding somewhere in the weeds, is egging on her husband, Ipomoea platensis, to commit murderous crimes of strangulation.
How is that for the nexus of literature and botany?