Early spring is not the time to find beautiful plants all over your garden because some of them are recovering from harsh winter.
This one is an early bloomer, if you can call it that. My Sarracenia now has 8 pitchers that are open and functional. With the tallest one being just over 17 inches tall.
The one just to the left of the tallest was the first one to grow and stretch up high. It looked like something got to it and ate its cap. The top is wilted.
Here is a group of the shorter ones that will soon be stretching up high like their big brothers. You can see my earlier post on this one, about a month ago, by going here.
Avocado Trees
We have a couple of trees that are nearly the same height and I know that they're different species because of the size and thickness of the leaves.
All of the new leaves/branches that are from this spring are something other than green. You can see all that new growth at the top of the tall, skinny one is all reddish or pink which means that's all been added in the last month.
The oldest one has grown wide and bushy and the youngest one seems to be going for height instead of width.
Kaylee the Kale
I never had a daughter, but if I had had a daughter, her name would be Kaylee. For that reason, this plant will have to be the daughter we never had. This is Kaylee, the kale plant.
She stayed healthy all through the winter and you can see my earlier post on kale here before she was repotted. She used to share a pot with a pepper plant that grew out the bottom.
Potty McPoterson and Mary Jane
These two live right next door to Kaylee and, well, live is not the best word since they do not show any signs of life. Although they have come back the last two years in a row, so I'm hoping they will green up soon.
When they do green up, everyone gets high when looking at them. They have lots of buddies, I mean buds. I will let you know at the first sign of anything green growing. They surprised me last year at exactly this time of year. Fingers crossed.
Gators or Crocodiles?
These little crocodile guys were not doing so good last year at this time, but they survived the winter fine and they're getting tall. I love these ones.
They just look exotic and I'm leaving the mystery alive. I'm not going to search for what they are. I call them crocodiles
Cabbage Props
Potted cabbage. Grown from the stump of an eaten cabbage.
When the leaves get this close together, that means there's a head of cabbage growing. But I can also eat the leaves and they're tasty.
I featured this one on my last update where the head of cabbage inside was about the size of a baseball and I just came out to the back terrace, only to fine out that it is infested with some sort of insect, so I will have to pull it up and throw it away. 😒
I Had A Very Tired Visitor
From the ugly to the very beautiful. I had a visitor the other day while I was out here in my garden.
I used to drive all the way to the nature reserve right on the banks of the river in order to see these little creatures. The hummingbird.
It hovered right near me and looked at me and said, "Why don't you have any sweet flowers?"
So as you can see above I got a fake sweet flower plant that hangs in the tree filled with honey and water... Then I got this beautiful flower plant, which I have seen them eating from in the reserve.
Then I bought this other plant, which I described to my friends at the plant store.
If they were honest with me, this one should grow stalks of purple bell shaped flowers that go outward. I know that the hummingbirds love this.
Upon his or her next visit, they will be satisfied.
I think that's it for today. I'm going to run the bad cabbage plants down to the dumpster and format this post for your enjoyment.
Thanks for following and commenting on my posts. Your support is appreciated
