Also known as slipper plant. You’ll see more of it tomorrow,
along with its bed partner, the yellow hibiscus!
For Cee’s FOTD
For Cee’s FOTD
For Cee’s FOTD
Put purdy pitcher hear.
Although I know the name of this flower, I can’t for the life of me remember it and the plant identifier refuses to name it, too. Someone help. A friend with a sense of humor set this up for me because he knew I’ve been crazy busy and didn’t have time to post it. The title and instructions are his!!! The flowers, however, whatever they are called, are my addition.
(They may be copa de oros (as not all copa de oros are gold, in spite of their name.) But, I’ve never noticed that little white flower like the center of a bougainvillea in the center of a copa de oro.)
For Cee’s FOTD
For Cee’s FOTD
A few days ago, I showed a photo of a hibiscus and was unsure of whether it was getting ready to bud out or had already done so and the petals had fallen. Cee is pretty sure the second is true but Sam (Seen here as “Anonymous.” We know not why) was curious about size and wanted to have more info. If you want to see the original blog that raised all this activity, go HERE, and you can also see Sam’s query and my answer to him. All of this led me to go out and take the pictures above. After that, I saw Cee’s comment which seemed to bring an end to the mystery. You can see her comment on the link as well. I’ll try to remember to go out and take a photo after this hibiscus’s petals have fallen. Then we can turn our minds to further mysteries.
A bit of interesting trivia: Chinese Hibiscus is sometimes referred to as the ‘Shoeblack Plant’, or simply ‘Shoe Flower’. This is because its petals can double up as shoe polish! By rubbing the flower petals on leather shoes, you can bring out the shine and color in the material to breathe new life into your shoes in a completely natural way!
I can’t decide whether this was a flower whose petals had fallen or one that hadn’t yet budded out. I meant to keep checking it, but life intervened and I forgot to. What do you think?
For Cee’s FOTD
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 