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some flower pics, it's early spring and most flowers are small but they are nice and bring colour and a promise of warm weather and sun to come π
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Love ya crucifix orchids, don't see them about much.
the little mauve ones are dendrobium kingii, a native of Sydney and the white are cymbidium
I do have crucifix orchids but they are not in flower yet, here they are from last year
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Ah, I stand corrected. Mums whole sideway was full of all kinds of orchids, but when I had to sell her house due to the Will being contested I had to get rid of almost all of them. There were so many of them I was struggling to find homes for them. I was selling them for $5-$10 each and people were still haggling and quibbling! In the end I gave a lot of them away because I was heavily pregnant by then and running out of time to move. She had huge gardenias in pots I virtually gave away, and Waratahs and a motherload of different types of Camellias and lots of other things. I could only bring a handful of plants with me because my MIL said there wasn't the room and didn't want pots damaging the concrete and shitty old paving, and Mr P and his mum managed to kill most of those anyway. Sorry about the plant rant, it's an experience that almost broke me as a person, and I'm still heartbroken. I looked up her house years later on Google maps and the new owners had ripped out the whole garden, 30 years of work. I watered and weeded that garden as a child βΉοΈ It's interesting what these things mean to us.
ooh all looking healthy.
They are. I try to keep a clean garden. :)
One thing that has happened tho is since I stopped feeding birds there has been an explosion of aphids, I stopped because my neighbour didn't like the mess.
I'm going to feed the birds again and bring some balance back.
So colourful
My orange clivia's are blooming for the first time this year. I grew them from seeds I collected.
so cool and they are a unique flower, they have both red and yellow pigments to make the orange. π
Beautiful!