The passionflower vines (Passiflora incarnata) are recovering well after being mown, and some are beginning to flower again. The apparent albino is hanging in there, but at this rate it’s going to be smothered by its neighbors.
They mowed the field near work where I’ve been taking wildflower pictures. Nevertheless, this zizotes milkweed (Asclepias oenotheroides) was still blooming away at 3 inches tall.
Longtime followers might remember when I rescued a neglected office plant that spent months clinging to life outside the building after its owner abandoned it, following an attempt to cure its extreme etiolation with abrupt exposure to full Texas summer sun. (Note: Don’t do that.) Anyway, this plant, propagated from the tip of the original, is now fully recovered, covered in pups, and about to smother its hapless potmates. It doesn’t seem to flower, instead focusing on ceaseless self-duplication. I need to pull apart the whole pot, separate this guy from the haworthias, and redo the soil, but I’m still proud of it. I wish I knew what the cultivar was!
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