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DESERT SPRING PLUS

Big developments today.

There are blossoms on a few of the cacti that I bought for our courtyard last summer.

A way to dress the area up without tearing up the concrete and also a way to use several high benches that we had gotten.

It never occurred to me that there would be flowers.

But there are.

Suddenly!

Mostly wildly pink blossoms on two of the barrels and some green with red and yellow teeny little buds on another cactus that doesn't really look like a cactus.

If that were not enough, we have white flowers showing on the very large pot cactus that was here when we arrived.

I have never ever been interested in pot gardening before. No potted plants anywhere unless they were huge.

So this is an unanticipated pleasure. Very nice.

I guess my cactus are emulating the cactus outside the walls which have a spring and flowers and some fruit.

I don't expect fruit.

Then, if that weren't exciting enough, today I realized that the orchid plant which I have been watering and fertilizing post-blossom has finally after 6 months (as they said on the tag actually) added two stems. I found the one and tied it to the stake and then, my god, another one. So now, two stems.

Did I mention that I am excited about this?

The orchid lives inside. Maybe I will get a couple more.

The three pot garden benches are, of course, outside. The cactus bench, a high table of succulents which are always doing something and another hot, full sun planting of prostrate rosemary. Prostrate because it doesn't bush up but, well, lies down. And because it is up in the air on pots, the stems will eventually flow over the side and down towards the ground (concrete). It is nice to have all these babies to take care of.

One more step toward puttering, the universal business of geezers.

Labels: condo, gardening, horticulture