Some of the plants I see

 

This is the "landscaped three tier garden" at Lake Tomahawk now. I was wrong that they'd saved the lavender plant. At least the top tier still has some roses and a rather spindly rhododendron.

And one last bloom was ready for me to lovingly capture it where it was sheltered under a big tree by the lake's sidewalk.

My efforts last Sunday were to repot some orchids. But they were too long and gangly, so I cut each in half. We shall see if either half lives. And I ran out of orchid mix, and noticed at the bottom of the bag it had just regular dirt. So I threw in some potting soils as well.  One more to plant still, and I'll be darned if I buy another bag of that mix at $7 plus. I'll try the last one in the old soil after I clean it out a bit.

Yes, AC, I also was too late for this beautiful Rhododendron. Rained a couple of times before I got to it and this is all that's left!

But I turned a corner to see this lovely planting. Their peonies have shed many petals like the ones near my house.

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Today's quote:

I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging.

 -Betty Williams, peace activist, Nobel laureate (1943-2020)

From the window - you know the one I mean

 

Looking down I see two or more azaleas about to bloom

Directly below my window is a bush with beautiful azalea blooms.

The white and pink dogwoods are just beginning to pop out. 

And as blooms start outside, the orchid is finally letting go of it's own beautiful flowers...which started in January if I remember correctly. Here's the link to Jan. 26 when I posted "At her Prime."

Today's quote:

I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

ANNE FRANK

Orchid house at Conservatory

  from 2015

Quote for today: 

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Jalaluddin Rumi
Essential Rumi, versions by Coleman Barks

The sad plants that stay alive

This ever living Oxalis has new leaves on the sunny side, and dying on the shady side, so I turn it a quarter turn whenever I water it.

As you may notice the remaining leaves have a white fly fungus at their junction. So I pulled this out and threw the whole plant away. I put the planter out to freeze for the winter...wonder if that will kill the fungus.

The cactus that didn't stay blooming for Thanksgiving. Oh well, it has to get used to my environment. At least it's still alive!

Another succulent which I've had for about 4 years. I definitely mistreat them.

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All the cuttings from the coleus were put in the pot when I took out the dead geraniums. So far one had the white fungus. Fingers crossed it won't hit all of them

Moved this philodendron further from the window, because honestly it doesn't need to grow any more. But it's started giving me variegated leaves, whoopee.

I should take this over, so the little bud is in focus. I will if I have time...

I forgot to change it when I took another shot...so I'll add it this morning

Very soon this orchid will open to blooms.

The Jade plant seems to like it here.

I now have all the symptoms of the flu...probably caught it when at the hospital Saturday night. I am able to get the fever down, and hope the course will be over in 5 days, as my Physicians Assistant gave me as a target date...from first symptoms yesterday. I'll have to miss church though. And I've taken two COVID tests which were negative. 

This orchid has brown stems and buds...not a good sign I'm thinking.

I'm not wrapping Christmas presents...unless I mask up and wear rubber gloves. No way I want to tape a virus onto a present! 

And though I didn't water these plants today...just look at these little dew drops coming right out of the leaf!

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Today's quote:

It is not diversity that divides us; it is not our ethnicity or religion or culture that divides us.  ~ Nelson Mandela

Exotic orchids

Gardeners or horticulturists at the Biltmore make sure there's nothing dead or dying, see the leaf on the left above which has been cut off.

Orchids with a little pouch...