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.
Photos of the first & last of the spring bulb plantings;
A troweled trench of Quail Daffodils and a shoveled trench of Tulipa tarda and Dorothy Crocuses (second pic somewhat showing the different planting depths in the same trench- 3" for the crocuses & 6" for the tulips).
This spring’ll be a show I know it will! Might be my first impactful spring bulb planting I hope as well.
The Dracanea marginata cutting is developing roots and rootnubs already!
Water-style rooting method confirmed for a viable propagation method for this species~
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There were other sights/landscapes to admire, but as my legs/feet were aching and I didn’t want to overstay my welcome, this was the last photo I took before I scrammed to the car to go home.
The Cuddy Gardens’ rose garden was still trooping on in floral colours and smells even in the cool autumn air ❤
This is one charismatic hypertufa planter. It’s by one of the paths through the rock garden into the rose gardens of Cuddy Gardens.
Look at those silver fractal-variegated leaves on the one plant!
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