April 23, 2025
It could be peanuts, but that’s a good thing when it comes to peanut cacti. My peanuts (echinopsis chamaecereus) erupted last week with starry orange flowers, but they are still strong.
It’s an impressive orange red, like molten lava.
Cacti have such wonderful flowers. This was Passaron from Laguna, San Antonio.
Another passon, my St. Joseph’s Lily Amaryllis (Hippes Stram x Johnsony) is also in bloom. It was shared with me by Tom Ellison. I revisited Tom Ellison’s lovely cottage garden yesterday. Find the photos right away!
My husband found this relaxing anol relaxing on agave leaves. Aside from his careful side eye, he looks completely comfortable and lives his life.
Silver Mediterranean fan palm (Chamaerops humilisvar. Argentea) shines in golden clusters, which are held closely between the leaves of thorny jazz hand.
This year there were some flowers on the lavender bearded iris.
The ruffles, colours and satiny textures remind us of a flashy ball gown.
The purple oxali also looks beautiful. I put this shade of lover in the pot and put it on the ground where I need the rich colour filler.
It is beauty as it has eggplant-colored leaves and delicate lavender flowers.
One night, while watching the owl, I heard the rustling noises in the trash in its leaves and thought it was an anol or a Texas thorny lizard. It grew louder and I walked over to investigate. Two skinks were fighting, biting each other and making noises in the leaves.
One broke freely, wiggling for the cover, the other stopped and pursued. What a drama!
After Ren defeated the past, he stopped with a quisical appearance.
One of my favorite little garden birds
This is the intense thing – a squeal owl nests in an owl box.
I sat on the front patio of Twilight and saw her appear in the opening.
I’m quiet and she knows I’m there but doesn’t seem to mind. She looks around, talks with her friends on the trees, and flies off for the evening constitution. I’d like to see Owlett in a few weeks. We recently found a recently dead rat snake, which looked like a wound with a hole in our head. We reminded us of stories of trying to steal owl eggs and found out how intense these little owls are.
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