Category Archives: Flowers

Agave Prebloom Addendum: Flower of the Day, Aug 24, 2018

Remember on July 29th when I posted this photo of the Aloe prebloom and some of you asked me to show it when it bloomed? I erred in calling it an aloe. It is actually an agave.

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This is how it looked  as it started to branch out: (click on first photo to enlarge all.)

On August 24, it is now as tall as this little palm and branching out even more. Each of those knobs will be a bloom. When it finishes blooming, the plant will die.

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You wonder how it could grow this quickly? Here is the rest of my garden a few weeks ago.  During the rainy season, everything flourishes. The problem is keeping it cut back:

 

 

For Cee’s Flower of the Day.

Unfortunate Fashion Choices

Unfortunate Fashion Choices

The dancer wore a tube top, for a hat, flowers with pot.
His partner was a pistol freshly fired, really hot.
She didn’t get his outfit. She didn’t groove his vibes.
Wherever he had touched her, she soon broke out in hives.
The moves that he suggested were not what she desired.
Instead of feeling challenged, she just felt merely tired.

He found he could not lead her, so he followed her instead—
reading her faint signals, going everywhere she said.
When the stereo instructions told them to embrace,
she did a dive under his arm to evade his face.
She danced herself around him and directed him to kneel,
and when she jumped up on his back, she speared him with her heel.

All-in-all,  total disaster, for when he dipped her down,
her bodice ripped asunder. Parts popped out of her gown.
He quickly pulled his tube top off and pulled it o’er her head.
Pulled out his pocket sewing kit—his needle and his thread.
He sewed up her damaged bodice and she retired to the loo
to change her top and do whatever girls in bathrooms do.

He waited there bare-breasted with the soil sifting down
from the damaged flower pot, turning his shoulders brown.
When she returned, he took her home. The blind date was a flop.
He should have worn a derby hat and a different top.
His good-night kiss rejected, he stood on her veranda,
ruing the fact he’d styled himself after Carmen Miranda!

 

The three “things” are: flower pot, stereo instructions, dancer and the link to the prompt is: https://thehauntedwordsmith.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/three-things-challenge-24-august-2018/

A Different New Hibiscus

I was awakened at 4:30 a.m. by a pounding-down rain, and since  these flowers might be gone by the morning, I’m glad I took ten minutes off yesterday to lie in the hammock and so saw these triplets on the hibiscus I just planted a little over a week ago. I especially planted it to be seen from my hammock and in the rush of getting ready for the house concert, I might have missed it otherwise. The moral of the story is, take time to swing in your hammock!  There will be rewards. See more views below.

Click on first flower to enlarge all. I couldn’t decide on a single view so decided to show all.

 

 

For Cee’s Flower of the Day

Canna Lily, Flower of the Day, Aug 22, 2018

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For Cee’s Flower of the Day.

White Hibiscus: Flower of the Day, Aug 21, 2018

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I just planted this hibiscus a little over a week ago and this is my first bloom. I think it is my new favorite. I planted another new one as well but can’t remember the color.  I’ll share a photo when it blooms again as the original flower faded and fell off.

For Cee’s Flower of the Day Prompt.

White Hibiscus: Flower of the Day, Aug 20, 2018

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For Cee’s Flower of the Day.

Fuchsia: Flower of the Day, Aug 18, 2018

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For Cee’s Daily Flower Post

Peace Lily: Flower of the Day, Aug 17, 2018

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These lilies were found in one of the seventeen gardens of the  Hacienda de la Dolores Barrera in Guanajuato.

For Cee’s flower of the day.

India Shot Lilies in Rain: Flower of the Day, Aug 13, 2018

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For Cee’s Flower Prompt.

Unidentical Triplets: Flower of the Day, Aug 10, 2018

IMG_0421Thunbergia Grandiflora, Aug, 2018, jdbphoto