Was a crummy/busy day yesterday but at least the yellow flowered Schlumergera has joined the S. truncata hybrid floral display!
All the different colours in one window definitely brings in the feeling of a warm tropical jungle into a day surrounded by a cold and abnormally mucky un-canadian winter day ❄🌺
Well, well, well, looks like I won’t have to buy a new red flowered Schlumbergera truncata hybrid after all; two of my seedlings from several years ago (conceived in a schlumbergera pollination tutorial) inherited their dead parent’s red colouration. When I saw the initial bud colour development I honestly thought they’d be pink flowered, what a pleasant surprise to be proven wrong.
Second specimen to start flowering; the pink Schlumbergera truncata hybrid. (Wish the photo quality was better on the first photo).
Smaller flowers than the other cultivars I own, it is nonetheless a charmer.
First of the Schlumbergeras to open up a flower! A nice white truncata hybrid, the cold in the farmhouse is causing its petals to develop a light pink blush 💕
These flowers were enduring well into the early November snow and cold. I have a feeling they are now asleep in the ground with the other perennials.
The Cuddy Gardens’ rose garden was still trooping on in floral colours and smells even in the cool autumn air ❤
A untagged white Corydalis!
Maybe it reseeded from a hidden tagged specimen elsewhere in the Cuddy Gardens.
Such a tiny tender looking cutie.
Planted as partial groundcover in part of the Species Magnolia grove area of Cuddy Gardens. Imo it’s more a holographic/iridescent deep purple than blue but ok.
So big, so pretty. A shame getting seeds for them is so difficult; they seem to have trouble ripening before frost cancels the growing season for them.
The skeletons are transfixed with arrows, and the heads are located in a nearby village, hanging in, of course, the headman’s compound, with black orchids growing from them. I don’t remember the moral lesson the author intended with his tale, but the memory has always comforted me in the knowledge that orchids can grow anywhere.
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