Some unrelated-to-each-other foliage pictures for April 2013 Foliage Follow up...
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| Rhubarb coming back for it's second year - with wind damage to leaf! |
It's been "crazy-windy" here - 50 mph gusts, and last week, the wind kicked up so much dust, the sky turned brown, and they closed the freeway.
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| Optunia cuttings growing new pads |
These I got as part of a plant exchange with
Loree at Danger Gardens. They'll get planted out into the regular garden soon, I think. I just have to think about where...
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| Optunia ficus-indica, I think. Also growing lots of new pads - my neighbor offered to take some to cook with! |
I've had to put rock mulch around most of the plants in large containers or planters like the one above - cats seemed to think that digging in my garden was an excellent past time...
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| Melon (cantaloupe?) seedlings! |
It's funny - I have horrible luck at growing things from seed, but these guys popped up from where a melon got left and rotted away, with no help/work from me. I'm holding my breath that they fill the bed with foliage again, like last year.
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| New foliage on the callistemon - it's so soft, I wish you could touch it! |
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| new shoots on the red yucca |
This grouping of red yucca developed very red foliage a few months ago - way more than the others, which have mostly turned back to their normal color. But now the new shoots are coming up green again... this should be interesting! No bloom stalk on this one yet though.
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Digging... Please send your good thoughts to Boston.
Your opuntias look great as does all of your foliage! Funny how melons and pumpkins will send up plants if left in place. Happy Wednesday!
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DeleteSeeing your new Opuntia pads is encouraging...waiting for mine to start, soon.
ReplyDeleteI think one of mine may be making flowers for the first time! Thanks for your comment
DeleteFun foliage, the red yucca foliage usually turns a violet color in cool weather and the returns to green in the summer. The rhubarb is the biggest surprise, I didn't know you could grow it as a perennial in the desert.
ReplyDeleteWhenever we have work done on the house, I find watermelon or cantaloupe plants emerge a few weeks later wherever the crew sat for lunch.
I didn't know either! I'm keeping my fingers crosses - one of the rhubarb(s) looks very unhappy right now. Thanks for commenting!
DeleteYou may not be able to grow Japanese maple, but I can't grow the wonderful Opuntia Ficus-indica -- not that I haven't tried (it got knocked off in a hard freeze that lasted a few days). Isn't it great that at least we get to enjoy these plants on each others' blogs? :-)
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