The Garden Photos Event presents
(by the skin of her teeth)
S A V V Y
Surprise! Yes, Savvy made it! Well past the deadline (I received these only a week ago), but what's new?
"A gift from the MITM"
[Note the lovely clear water in the vase.
'Petra, if you're reading, this is how it should be done! - IDV]
"I have a brown thumb"
[Fortunately, Dracaena fragrans "Warneckei" (if that's what this is)
"My Christmas cactus that hasn’t bloomed since we left Savannah!"
[Just a mo... What's that on the left at the bottom of the urn?]
"Same plant different angle"
[Yes, yes. Vigorous growth. Lots of new leaves. No flowers etc. etc.
But going back to the observation in the previous photo...
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Gasp! It... It is! It's the logo of the Monterey Bay Aquarium on a coaster!For those not in the know, the aquarium played the part of the Cetacean Institute (in Sausalito, California) in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (the one with the whales) back in 1986. The logo itself was adopted as the Cetacean Institute logo, and seems to have inspired the Cetacean Ops logo from this year's Star Trek: Lower Decks season finale "First First Contact" (as seen here).Savvy, are you trying to bribe me for a win with this Star Trek content? Because it might just wor-Oh, no you don't! I shouldn't need to remind you that the Infomaniac Garden Photos Event is NOT a contest! Fancy highjacking Savvy's entry with Star Trek nonsense...Actually, it's not all Star Trek, I'll have you know. The design of the logo is based on a kelp frond which links in nicely with our gardening endeavours.A tenuous link at best. Kelp's not even a plant! Right. Back to the show.
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Or not. Savvy said she might send a couple more, but they haven't materialised. Yet...]
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Thank you, Savvy! And I'm sorry your post was derailed somewhat by the Host.
Now, unless anyone else has some garden photos that they'd like to submit in the next day or two, the final garden in this tour will be my own, so see you all soon!
YAY!!!!! She made it!!!! I'm so glad Savvy doesn't do my gin runs....I'd dehydrate waiting for her. But I love her. I love Savvy's Christmas Cactus! I have no luck with them myself getting them to bloom.
ReplyDeleteAnd here we go again with talk about whales and Star Trek. I have no idea what your talking about. I don't remember any whales in the tv show, were they in one of the movies? And if I don't know, will that impede me from getting a reward from the Garden Event?
Dehydrate? I would have thought becoming sober is worse?!
DeleteAs for Star Trek, there were no whales in the tv shows until Belugas featured this year's animated Lower Decks (as linked to in the post). No, the whales (humpbacks) are from the fourth movie with the original series cast - probably the most famous Trek movie, so I'm surprised you dont know of it.
Perhaps I'll have to introduce you to a white whale when we next share the Gincuzzi?
My kind of gardener.
ReplyDeleteThere's always room for a vase of something fragrant from you, Norma.
DeleteI love the Christmas Cactus, too! My Nan had one that flowered every year. According to the Royal Horticultural Society, the "secret" is to give the plant two periods of dormancy (early Spring and late autumn), and to keep it relatively cool and away from full sun. It can live outdoors in a shady place all summer.
ReplyDeleteI have never grown one, but I did have an Orchid Cactus that grew three feet across - and, by way of consolation, it never ever flowered either. I gave it away to someone whose Dad has a greenhouse. Jx
PS In that first pic of the cactus, Mr DeVice spotted something-to-do-with-Star-Trek-yada-yada, but I spotted... A FLOWER BUD!
* scours photo *
DeleteOh, good gods, this is like "Where's Wally?"!
Zoom in on the second-left downward-pointing branch, and there at the tip is what looks suspiciously like a flower bud... Jx
DeleteAh, yes! Behind the newest leaf/stem. It does look like a flower bud. Perhaps Savvy ought to keep an eye on it?
Delete*faints from the shock of Savvy entering photos for an event*
ReplyDelete*revives self only to find that Mr. DeVice has managed to work a Star Trek reference into the post*
Love the colour of those curtains, Savvy.
I think Savvy included that coaster on purpose!
DeleteThe curtains/lilies photo looks like it could be featured in an upmarket homes magazine.
I love Lilies, they are so gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteJon - everyone's nan had a Christmas Cacti didn't they?! And my mum had a jungle of them on the windowsill in our kitchen - so exciting when they did actually flower one year.
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She had a Christmas cactus, a "Prayer Plant" an "Aluminium Plant" and a "Shrimp Plant". I think that's where my fascination with plants began, really. Jx
DeletePS Nans also seem to accumulate hideous things like Poinsettia and Kalanchoe, too. I know my mother always gets a Poinsettia from a friend at Xmas. She asked me what she needed to do with it. I advised: "bin".
Oh yes! I remember the Poinsettias!!! And then there was a fad for Peace Lilies - they were everywhere, but they very rarely made it through the year.
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We've had our Peace Lilies for about ten years! Jx
DeleteWhen William was around and being Jewish we didn't decorate, as for me poinsettias were all I ever placed around the house in areas in white. But then like Jon says, come January "Poinsettia, meet bin." I do think they are pretty, but just not all year.
DeleteI think Poinsettias must be an acquired taste.
DeletePeace Lilies, on the other hand, are a taste I have acquired. Like Jon's, mine are pretty ancient now, and all came from offsets of the big one in my boudoir seen here back in 2008 (that one was already quite elderly then - sadly, it's no longer with us).
Ours are in need of a refresh - next spring I am planning to divide them and plant up the offsets in place of the mother plants, as both are getting woody in the middle.
DeleteI love the scent of their flowers; it's intoxicating! Jx
That the flowers had a scent, nevermind one that I can't get enough of, was a big surprise when I first realised it.
DeleteOh my heavens! The Lilly's are pretty! And I just know my daughter will bring me yet another Christmas Cactus to which I will sufficiently kill.
ReplyDeleteDo you make them suffer, Ms Goldberg-DeWoofs? Or does the killing happen quite quickly and efficiently?
DeleteI surprised all y'all didn't I??? Today was the deadline, so I'll not be sending anymore photos, mainly because I forgot to take anymore. (Are we surprised?) Anyway, it was fun and I'm just happy to be include with all y'all REAL gardeners! XOXOXO
ReplyDeleteYou certainly did surprise us, Savvy. I should have had smelling salts and fainting chaises ready for our more delicate readers, like The Very Mistress!
DeleteWe have an Xmas Cactus that is like... 25 plus years old. Last year it bloomed twice! And Savvy is right... you guys are the real deal when it comes to gardening. But thank you, Savvy, for putting a bit of reality into the mix! I'm with you! Kizzes.
ReplyDeleteYou seem to be the resident Christmas Cactus expert, Upton. Perhaps you could share some photos and tips in next year's Event?
DeleteI too had a Christmas flowering cactus (Morrison's finest) or it could have been an Easter flowering one I can't remember which, whilst I was away sunning myself in Tenerife, the poor cactus was left to fend for itself outside, this was in 2018 when the Beast from the East struck, when the temperature plummeted to -4 and it survived, a bit worse for wear and puce looking on my return it soon put on new growth and became rampant and started to topple over in it's pot so I left it on a friend's doorstep.
ReplyDeleteHow generous of you Mitzi. Or was it just a last resort as the Beast from the East didn't finish it off?
DeleteI think I recognize some of that green stuff ...
ReplyDeleteDon't try and eat it, Mago. It's not your salad!
DeleteAhem. I will admit to knowing how to get a Christmas cactus to flower. You neglect it from the summer onwards, water it rarely and tell yourself you must throw it out.
ReplyDeleteFollow me for more murdering advice.
Pour it the stale beer from last evening and it will be fine.
DeleteI expect a "How to..." book by Christmas, Hound. It will be a bestseller!
DeleteThe picture of the Lily's is just perfection!
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