BUTTON GROWTH....and other signs of Spring...

Here is a photograph of the continued growth of 'The Buttons' on "George" that are no longer looking like buttons. Now they look more like Nipples...but that will change too, as further growth takes place any minute now....I left this photo on it's side because truthfully you can see the growth better than if the photo was upright...(which is what it should be, of course)...I love that the fuzzy look is becoming more obvious now, especially in this position...The wonders of nature continue...more will be revealed as time moves on.....


These are the flowers on a Euphorbia Lambii, when they are completely open, as they are right now. They look like little bells to me...beautiful perfect little bells--almost like some flower you might see in an English Garden...I love that we can see the rain residue, too...There was a 'surprise' rain night before last and into early A.M. (Thursday...) I say 'surprise' because they have been predicting rain for possibly Sunday night-Monday! It's okay with me because we do need it, but I'll never understand how with all the modern scientific ways they supposedly have to predict the weather now...The Farmer's Almanac is still more accurate than any Doppler whatever....lol

This is a Euphorbia Medusa....and if you are familiar with the Medusa story, you can see why....Hair all over the place...What's interesting to me about all the plants in my garden is---there is always something that is blooming all year long. And all the plants have their blooming time which is different from one another. All the Euphorbia's have been blooming all through the so called winter months, but then go dormant during the summer months and the Euphorbia's also have their growth period during the winter months, too...So, their are always some pretty little or BIG flowers to look at during the year....I already posted that magical night blooming Webercereus Johnsonii---that was the arm that bloomed as it sat on my patio---if you can recall that far back....

Take note of this amazing plant in the photo above...a 'Night Blooming" Cereus....right now, there is no evidence of the remotest kind yet that there will even be flowers on this plant...each arm will have any number of night blooming flowers, which by the way are huge!!! In fact, I would have to say they are unbelievable in their magicalness! Right now, it looks like pretty much---well---like nothing! But believe me, when it flowers, for that one night a year....you won't believe how extrordinarily beautiful each flower is, and how very big each flower is when you consider that each of these arms is about as big and round as a rather thick pencil....I will post this photo again to show the transformation....but that won't be for some weeks yet....we have to begin to see some teeny tiny fuzz balls to know that there will be flowers coming...and we don't see any of those, as yet.... Another Euphorbia person....None of these plants looks like they could or should be related---that they actually are in the same family is quite amazing, but true...What unites them is the sticky white liquid that is their 'blood', if you will...and I believe I mentioned this previously...like The Pointsettia Plant is a Euphorbia....These little red leaves on this plant is another sign that something is always visably growing here in my garden...and again, the Euphorbia's are having their growth period, right now... So the photo above is a Succulant with some flowers....Blooming in January-February.... And here is a slightly closer look at this tiny little delicate beautiful flower...I tell you, the beauty of nature cannot be beat...each of these flowers is not even an inch long, and look at the intricate shape and color variations....This Is The Best, isn't it.....?

More to come as more things bloom....