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It'll be November on Saturday and the temperatures during the day have seldom hit below 12°C; the local collared doves are still trying to start families and I saw a red admiral butterfly on Tuesday, I think it was. Boy, my memory has been like a sieve the last few weeks. Quite funny, really. So, photos!
It's been a bit of a moody day today, so I took a photo from my window... playing with the camera zoom.
One of the joys of this time of year is that the
Phalaeonopsis orchids are getting themselves ready to start flowering, one of mine is already growing a stalk and the others are pumping out new foliage and roots. One of them died, unfortunately, but it had lost most of its roots so it wasn't going to be an easy recovery... I'm actually going to
train the flowers this year instead of letting them squiggle around wherever they please.
Skatty seems to be doing all right; he found a new favourite cosy spot under my grandmother's chair, which is somewhat of a family heirloom, but today decided the kitty box was the better place.
"Heeeeeeeeeeey."
The
D. dielsiana flower pods are still in the midst of bursting and giving me seed, I've been collecting it gradually. The plants themselves are looking a little unwell, I don't know if it's the weather or something I'm missing... could be water related, but I'll keep a close eye on them. Lots of other little plants peeping up out of the soil now.
The
Drosera capensis... ohhh the poor D. capensis... I was hoping to repot them to stop some fungus issues and also to get some of the larger, healthier plants into a separate pot for a young lad at church. I did a horrible job. A really terrible job. Thankfully the plants are starting to recover, a couple of weeks later, though they have lost a lot of leaves and are generally sulking... while being covered in dirt.
The prolonged warm weather and bright sunshine should help them out.
Mexican Pinguicula time! I'm hoping to get a series of photos of my plants gradually entering their succulent growth to put on my website, so I must, must, must remember to actually take the photos. Here are the
P. 'Tina' plants:
And the
P. 'Weser':
The Pinguicula to the left of the P. 'Weser' in the first photo is actually a P. 'Tina'.
Let's see... what else is there. Oh, of
course!
Nineveh. Can't forget Nineveh. He's, well, a hissing cockroach who likes to hiss randomly in the night. He was singing a right merry song to himself last night! On 25th Oct, I
moved some things around in
his enclosure to
make climbing easier. He seems to approve. He's so
pretty! Skatty has taken
quite a liking to him (please excuse the PJs on the side). Today, he's just hanging out under his
artificial tree no. 2 thingie (my brain is starting to switch off, can you tell?)... I bet he's exhausted after all that singing he did in the night.
I know I am!