Bee in the garden

Lately, thanks to my lovely sunflowers, I’ve been seeing a lot of bees and hummingbirds appear in my garden. YAH!!!

This afternoon I decided to get a photo of one of the bees. I gotta say it was harder to do. This busy little bee was just jumping from flower to flower making it difficult for me to capture it at work.

The busy bee

Bee Surrounded in Yellow

The Ants are not missing out

That lonely caterpillar.

The Lonely Caterpillar

I saw this guy this morning just sitting there on one of the branches of my Cypress Vine. I was really curious as to how it got there so fast. Yesterday I patrolled the vines and saw nothing. Seeing as how the plants are not on the ground but up 4 feet it must have taken it whole night to get there. [Probably]

I didn’t want to kill it, so I just relocated it.

The Garden Project! Part 5

Why do I have these posts in parts?

Well anyway, FINALLY!!!! a sign that something’s going on with these plants other than the sunflower. And in more areas than one.

First of the rose propagation. Now I’ve never tried this before, I’ve always heard stories that it is extremely difficult when it comes to roses. Though the rose tree that I have is not what I’d like to say ‘high breed’ [the flowers are not large with defined petals] it did take me a while to get a cutting to actually grow roots successfully.

Well guess what, yesterday, I SAW ROOTS. And a lot of it too. I remember standing there for a while in awe. Then I transferred that one cutting to a larger pot. YEAH!!!!

Roots

More Roots

Rose cutting with roots in new pot

I have to say I was extremely excited to see that. There is another cutting, that does not have as much roots as this one, so I am hoping soon they will just pop out.

Secondly, remember the newly discovered Cypress Vines? Well Houston, we have flowers. Well just one flower, but I figured from now, the others are just going to pop out. Again yesterday I noticed red, and was extremely excited. Well stepping out today, it opened. Finally signs that it really is the vine I have been waiting for.

First REAL sign of flower

Cypress Vine Flower

From a different, more intimate angle

I gotta say I am really happy right now. I have yet to see the morning glory show signs of flowers. It’s just been getting longer, but at this point I am not really eager.

I still haven’t had time to find material for the vines to grow on yet, and I am a but upset with myself for that but hey….we got a flower.

The Garden Project! Part 4.

Ok, so it has been a while since I’ve updated on the project. So far so good I suppose. There has been a lot of rain falling recently, and I mean a lot, every night, whole night. The grass is growing faster than I can attempt to control, but the plants seem to be taking their time. A couple days ago, I saw the head of one of the sunflower plants pop out. today it was a large as I think it could be. And it is beautiful.

Sunflower mammoth

Some time last week I planted a few more sunflower plants and they are doing well.

I recently realised that when I thought the Cypress Vine seeds didn’t catch, they did. I was going over the seed packets trying to figure out what some recent grow could be, when I found out I have, not one, but at least 7 cypress vines growing. YAH!!!

Cypress Vine

Above is what I think is a flower pod on the Cypress Vine. I have never grown this before so in a couple days we will see.

I even think they one plant is ready to flower. I gotta say it seems like forever growing plants from seeds.

Young Sunflower

Young Sunflower. In about 2 days the flower will be more noticeable, and in 4 days I am hoping to see a hummingbird and bees.

Sunflower close up

Beautiful no?

Morning Glory

Morning Glory leaves are getting bigger!!!!!

The Garden Project. Part 3

So it’s been a while since I’ve ‘blogged’. I have been so busy it’s not funny, it seems like the days are shorter here, or maybe it is because I actually have things to do. This coming week I will have nothing to do, and well I guess I will see the days get longer.

So yesterday I finally realised how tall 12 feet is. I was grewing impatient at the pests eating the leaves off my sunflower plants, and figured it’s time for at least one to flower. I decided to search online to see if I could find a photo of a fully grown sunflower mammoth………

…..well I did, and like the persons standing next to the plant which is double their size, I was shocked. My sunflowers have a ways to go again.

I am having a bit of a problem finding items to have m morning glory grow on, they are getting longer and longer and need a trellis to creep on. This sure isn’t the mainland where I can drive down to Home Depot and buy a trellis or wood to make one.