Danger Garden identified a shady combo of ferns and mahonia as
her favorites for July - so i took a look at my favorite shade plant (of which i don't have very many!)
I have a hoya kerrii that lives in a pot, that i've had for years. It spends the summers hanging by my front door. This year, a mourning dove built a nest in it, and i left it alone the whole time the baby birds were in there. When they finally left the nest, the plant celebrated by promptly bursting into bloom:
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| funny looking flowers |
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| yes, they will drip nectar all over my front patio |
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| and the leaves |
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| but they are cute, funny looking things! |
This is the whole plant - it's in the shade for most of the day, minus a few hours in the morning. It does not like our full sun at all.
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| it looks like some kind of weird sea creature with too many legs |
Hoya kerrii gets to be my favorite plant right now, and hopefully no more birds will build nests in it!
That's a pretty wonderful story, the nesting followed by blooming. It's a beautiful favorite!
ReplyDeleteHoyas always look like they were created by a waxwork museum to me but I like them!
ReplyDeleteWeird but wonderful. Does it attract bees or hummingbirds?
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