These wild poinsettas have suddenly sprung forth in my backyard! They are coming out everywhere and I just adore them! Between the orange gloriosas and these, it looks like my yard knows it is turning to FALL. I can't hardly take all these oranges! Just gorgeous!!! I am grateful for so many things, and I am really grateful for my orange plants too!!!
Update on okra: First I went outside last night after dark and found absolutely NOTHING on the plants. I used a flashlight and inspected top and bottom of leaves, and along stems/stalks and dirt too (looking for snails, possibly)...and found ZILCH. This is a good thing, I suppose...but yet the mystery remains as to what my leaves are being munched away by!!!!
The pic above shows what I found today when I went out to take a photo of the first flower, and here is what I found! The flower had already fallen off and the okra was peeking out! You can see it here in the same location where I had previously shown the bud. So...now we will see how long it takes to grow an okra pod!!!
9 comments:
Very exciting!!! Interesting orange thinge on the leaves.
So cool, never seen okra grow before!
What beautiful plants! I love growing succulents here in California! They do so well!
KJ
SoCal
I would love to have the wild poinsettias. All I have is a weedy euphorbia that resembles the wild poinsettia, never has the red coloring and just seeds itself all over the place. Does yours reseed. If so I will look out for the real thing and gather some seeds. Okra! just not something an English girl was brought up to eat!
beautiful orange color!! looks stunning like flame!!
Oh wow, such beautiful colors!!!
Thanks for your kind words Julie.
Hi Julie,
I am going to recommend your site to my daughter's boy friend who loves to garden and I have been telling him to plant okra. Your cacti are amazing! I have a town house in Las Vegas, the back yard is empty and bare just red rocks. I have been thinking for a long time planting cactus. I have never seen cactus like these. Glad I discovered your blog. Janice Mae
Always pretty finds to come by here to see.
Just also wanted you to know I am sewing your handmade beads onto new little single pockets and they look so pretty.Thanks again ever so much!
Very cool! The orange poinsettias are really pretty too!
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