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Floral Alphabet Challenge. The Letter “A”

Janet at the Slmret blog has challenged me to post a photo of a flower for every letter in the alphabet. Just for the fun of it, I started out trying to see if I could do this and nine hours later, I’ve done it!!! Unfortunately, I can’t weed some of the letters down to one choice only, so instead of publishing them all today, I’m going to do one letter a day for 26 days, and some days I’ll publish more than one photo per letter.

Anyone want to play along? If so, please put a link to your post in my comments each day. HERE is my link for today. And also link to Cee’s blog, as she has decided to play along as well. HERE is her link for today.

So here we go with letter “A.” (I actually published this yesterday, but since Cee started publishing hers today, I’ll take a day’s vacation so we are on the same alphabetical page. 

“A” is for aloe bloom and anthurium.

Floral Alphabet Challenge. The Letter “A”

Janet at the Slmret blog has challenged me to post a photo of a flower for every letter in the alphabet. Just for the fun of it, I started out trying to see if I could do this and nine hours later, I’ve done it!!! Unfortunately, I can’t weed some of the letters down to one choice only, so instead of publishing them all today, I’m going to do one letter a day for 26 days, and some days I’ll publish more than one photo per letter.

Anyone want to play along? If so, please put a link to your post in my comments each day. HERE is my link for today. and also a link to Cee’s blog, as she has decided to play along as well. HERE is her link for today.

So here we go with letter “A.” (I actually published this yesterday, but since Cee started publishing hers today, I’ll take a day’s vacation so we are on the same alphabetical page. 

“A” is for aloe bloom and anthurium.

Century Plant Abloom: FOTD Oct 17, 2021

Click on photos to enlarge.

 

My Century Plant is an Agave Americana. It blooms every 10 to 20 years and then dies, but sends off offshoots which grow into new plants. In this case, it created two, each of which is now blooming at the same time. I think this plant  and its offshoots have bloomed more than twice in the 20 years I’ve been here but I may be wrong. I do remember it blooming at least once before. The blooms are about 8 inches in diameter and the honeybees and wasps love them!

For Cee’s Flower of the Day prompt

An Additional Bloom: Flower of the Day, Apr 29, 2021

This little vermillion flycatcher bird loves to perch on the agave blooms to put their vivid hues to shame. I snapped this with my phone as my camera was hiding in a basket in the house, sulking over its lack of use since I started carrying my iPhone in lieu of it. The photo would have been better with the camera, but alas, I could not have fit my camera into my pocket so probably would have had no photo at all.

For Cee’s FOTD

Agave: Flower of the Day, Oct 12, 2018

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I promised over a month ago to show you the blooms on my agave spike when they burst out.  Here is the next stage, after the initial thrust that looked like a 10 foot high stalk of asparagus.

See Cee’s stunning offering for the day HERE.

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.