The start of the year has not been conducive to my blogging, again. It happened before and this year the same is repeated. A lot of things have been going on simultaneously, personal, official, hobbies, etc, etc, the list goes on and on! But blogging has always been a part of my life for several years now, in fact i am here for 10 years! It helped me convey my feelings and enthusiasm about so many things. It is an avenue for me to post my pictures of so many subjects, objects, travels, and a lot more too. It helped me use my spare time or my time has helped me to do blogging. Whatever, it is already a part of my adult life, and i am not stopping, a month or 2 of absence is just like a school recess. And my recess is finished, i am again into the normal flow of things. We have officially into our Dry Season and it is already hot, leaves are already starting to be scorched but some plants reached their reproductive stage.
What else will i be posting but what is handy! Therefore i will start with the Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. I have been linking with it for many years, it is already a habit for many of us. So while our Dry Season has just started and the hot temperature starts to soar, here are my blooms.
I have a tree of this Indian Beads, it was in a pot placed on the ground, rooted and become a tree. It was like a Christmas tree full of hanging white lanterns.
My few bulbs are blooming also, although only one scape of this Eucharis grandiflora rose this month. I hope the rest will follow.
Eucharis grandiflora or Amazon lily
Four of my hippeastrum bloomed as a result of my flower induction. Normally they flower at the start of the rainy season. I induced dormancy for their earlier blooming.
Unfortunately, they are all gifts from a friend 2 years ago, and they didn't have their
ID.
I just put them on top of the water to induce blooming.
A few red cosmos are still alive, but they are drying up so quickly.despite watering.
Red Pentas lanceolata is a favorite of one butterfly, Scarlet Mormon. It is continuously blooming, but the butterfly is nowhere to be found. these days. I guess its host plant is also drying up.
lavender Pentas
purple Vanda loves the heat and intense sunlight
a few hoyas have blooms, but the rest prefer the rainy season, Hoya buotii (yellow)
Hoya buotii (yellow)
Hoya nakarensis
Hoya diversifolia
Hoya diversifolia on top of lanzones trees. They love it there. This hasn't stopped flowering since September last year. Sorry for the very bright picture as this was to high up from the ground.
And the star of my hoyas being a first time bloomer, Hoya macgillivrayi. The blooms lasted for 8 days. It is not endemic nor native here but from Northern Australia.
Thank you so much for your time looking at my posts.
All beautiful! I especially like the Indian beads, so unusual. I grow a hippeastrum from my mother's garden which looks very similar to the ones in your photos.
ReplyDeleteThanks much. Those hippeastrum are old hybrids, so they could be growing in most US gardens.
DeleteThe hippeastrums are growing still in my garden even though it's Autumn, same red colour.
ReplyDeleteOh yes you are in NZ like my sister, so you are now in autumn. I asked her to bring me some, but my requested hybrids are in Rotorua, not for shipping.
DeleteWe are in mid spring..hoping for amaryllis blooms this month...hoya at the end of post was breathtaking.
ReplyDeleteOh so you have 4 seasons in that part of India? My friend in another province has lots of hippeastrums too. Thanks for dropping by.
DeleteI am in love with that little precious white blooms on the first image.
ReplyDeleteThanks Maria, i haven't been blogging since Nov so hopefully can now follow your wonderful travel posts again.
DeleteAndrea - welcome back. I kept checking to see if you had returned, and here you are! Certainly your first post after your absence does not disappoint. Well done. My favorite is the cosmos with the light coming through the petals. Gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteOh thank you so much, I am sorry I stopped for some months. But that was just to let some urgent matters, now am here again.
DeleteWow, some lovely exotic flowers there.
ReplyDeleteFunnily, I also have taken a break from my blog because I have been so busy. The end of the year always finds me chasing people for their butterfly records and then trying to compile them and make sense of them, before writing a short report to send to everyone who contributed. This year has been particularly busy, because 2018 was by far the best butterfly year we have had for some time. I am also trying to arrange alterations for our new house, still looking after our old house and now my son has his own house and my daughter has gone to university, so a lot to sort out!
I look forward to seeing more of your posts from the tropical Philippines.
Oh that's really a lot of happenings all at the same time. How old is your son now to live on his own? I thought they are just kids! Congratulations also for the many contributions from your butterfly folks. At least you are making lots of reviews for your occurrences there. More power to you.
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