My little garden
My little garden and orchids are growing, and most of the pots and plants/flowers are from Home Depot.
… outside of the lanai
… the 2nd extension
We extended lanai 10′ out with the builder. They won’t do the max, which we would do a year after.
A few months ago, I finished David Gelles’ The Man Who Broke Capitalism How Jack Welch gutted the heartland and crushed the soul of corporate America (2022), the totally denial of Neutron Jack who was worshiped during his day, as “manager of the century.” Recently, Power Failure The rise and fall of an American icon (Nov 2022) by William D. Cohan. One of Welch’s lieutenants or disciples was Bob Nardelli, who drove Home Depot to the ground. HD used to be a pleasant place to shop or live (you probably know what I mean … when you’ve a project going.) Now, HD feels ok, I think.
- The next project is a living wall
- Air plants
The fall foliage is seen in Florida?! Or I’m colorblind -:)
Some thinks it’s my zen garden … I just want to show off the Chee Hsin tiles I brought back from China.
Two first dinners, one with friends and one with neighbors.
From 2023
majesty palm from Lowe’s; Wax begonia, a gift; African Milk Tree; calla lily; a yellow bougainvillea. Two bird of paradise, Chinese lantern and mini chili pepper in February, and peachy Hibiscus, Moonlight Sunscape in January.
The orange flower Cape Honeysuckle
Lemon lime prayer plant (Maranta) and bloodleaf
heartleaf philodendron plant (?) and a very healthy hostas.
Red barberton daisy, dicots
Below, are purchased in 2022:
Yellow Asiatic lily
Plumbago (leadwort)
Tricolor ginger/prayer or triostar stromanthe, and a few more
The snake plant
A small fern
25Q perennial blanket flower, in the sunflowers / daisies family.
The golden shrimp plant (pachystachys lutea) is one of my favorites. Kew Gardens in London and New York botanic gardens have it, so is Planting Fields on Long Island. By January, new flowers are coming out.
The purple Mona lavender plectranthus, and parrot flower. We left it outside during the first of the three cold days, Christmas 2022 when temperature drops below zero (only 30?!!) its leaves curled inward, as if to keep warm. Hopefully, it will make it – we moved it inside on the second day, 12.25. We brought them in on Jan 15 again – by now, parrot flower isn’t doing well, might die soon; or already died.
The parrot flower (not the bird of paradise), and
The purple mints
Lantana (yellow)
The dropper Global green pothos is doing well without much care: I’ve to cut it short after a year.
Hawaiian Ti Cordyline 10″ red sister
starfire jasmine white
The firespike (odontonema strictum)
The vinca and carnations 康乃馨
The pentas
Pilea Chinese money and century plant (monocots class)
The hibiscus
The peachy one is from January. The red Chinese hibiscus is from Nov 2022, with stone from Dongzhi, Anhui.
A yellowish spiky plant
The bougainvilleas
The yellow one is on 2023.3.29. The smaller fuchsia color one is from Nov 2022.
Our first plant purchased on November 1st, 2022: bougainvillea. On lunar new year day 2023.1.22, it blooms like crazy -:).
… the herb tower
… the tile corner, with its earliest settler, a cute little gecko/lizard or commonly known as Cuban brown anole.
The front yard
We waited for a year to remove the palm trees’ wooden support. But it doesn’t need this long
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A little bamboo from iKea in 2022.
