recycled garden - trenta cup o'daisies
Wayne found this mega tea cup at a yard sale Friday. From Blogger Pictures We put it to practical use by planting red Gerbera daisies in it. From Blogger Pictures
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micro orchids!
I am delighted by orchids. The huge variety, somewhere around 25,000 species in 880 genera, means that one could collect and study them for a lifetime and never see all of them. Eric Hansen wrote a riveting book, Orchid Fever: a horticultural tale of love, lust and lunacy , that describes the lengths to which people will go to find rare orchids. I read this book before I had an interest in collecting orchids. It is that good of a story. I read it right after reading Susan Orlean's, The Orchid Thief , then seeing the movie. Coincidentally, I was given my first orchid soon after reading these books. While many orchid plants have large flowers... From orchids some of my favorites are the littlest ones. Last year I posted a picture of our little cleisostoma chrochettii. From orchids It has such perfect tiny orchid form. Also tiny is this ascocentrum miniatum. It is blooming now. I took this picture earlier this eveni...