Flowers 2017

[LanceMac10]

mums.....

 

[Deano]

Courtesy of my 80+ year old Mom, this is her little dwarf pomegranate patio plant.

 

[GrimLore]

Another tiny one - Lavender Star Flower. First bloom here with a lot of buds to go -



Grimmy

 

[Carol 83]

 

[drew33998]

Round 2.

 

[Carol 83]

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That is really beautiful. I have a few orchids, so just wondering. Please don't take offense, but I've never seen a real blue orchid. Is that one they put the dye in the water, or is it really that color?

 

[barrosinc]

My crabapple

 

[drew33998]

That is really beautiful. I have a few orchids, so just wondering. Please don't take offense, but I've never seen a real blue orchid. Is that one they put the dye in the water, or is it really that color?

Purple not blue. There is no blue orchid. This is a vanda orchid

 

[Carol 83]

Purple not blue. There is no blue orchid. This is a vanda orchid

So very pretty. The pattern in the petals is really beautiful.

 

[just.wing.it]

Purple not blue. There is no blue orchid. This is a vanda orchid

I seen some blue orchids at the local grocery store....over with the flowers, balloons and bonsai trees with rocks hot glued to the soil.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

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Nicely done, Princess Mikasa?
There are a few, very few blue orchids. Some of the Australian terrestrials like the genus Thelymetria, or sun orchids have the pigment delphinium, which is true blue. Sadly they are difficult to grow. Vanda, and most of commonly available orchids only have anthocyanin pigments, which can look blue-ish as in the Vanda above, to purple, to pink, and when layered over a yellow background can give orange to scarlet red. But never gets to true blue. Cattleya blue is actually more a gray violet, quite disappointing in reality. Your Orchid Trivia for the Day.

 

[barrosinc]

Spring!

 

[LanceMac10]

 

[LanceMac10]

 

[LanceMac10]

 

[LanceMac10]

 

[Wilson]

@Mellow Mullet after the blooms are done on my crape myrtle, do you recommend cutting branches back to one or to buds?

 

[Mellow Mullet]

Hello Wilson!

I cut mine back to help build some structure, just like you said, to one or two leaf pairs, but I have or had about six weeks before growing slows down or stops. You can cut them if you have enough time for the new growth to harden off before winter arrives, if it does not have time to harden, it (the new growth) will not survive the winter. So what I am saying is, yes, if there is enough time for the new growth to harden, if not, just wait until late winter or spring.

Hope it helps,

John

 

[Wilson]

Hello Wilson!

I cut mine back to help build some structure, just like you said, to one or two leaf pairs, but I have or had about six weeks before growing slows down or stops. You can cut them if you have enough time for the new growth to harden off before winter arrives, if it does not have time to harden, it (the new growth) will not survive the winter. So what I am saying is, yes, if there is enough time for the new growth to harden, if not, just wait until late winter or spring.

Hope it helps,

John

Always appreciated, thanks for your help.

 

[Carol 83]