Ah, you're right on time for...
M A G O:
Where No Plant Has Gone Before
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I snapped some photographs last night [Hallowe'en, spookily enough - IDV]:
The creature in question lives on my kitchen's window sill, I have totally forgotten where it came from. Anyway, it is here, and takes the window over using the jalousie [Venetian blinds - IDV] to climb, explore space, in search for new civilisations ...
"The Grabber" is a found image ...
The wax plant does well, I only give it some water now & then. I like the scent and the nectar. [Flower buds from a wax plant very similar to the one above (Hoya carnosa) can be found in Dinah's GPE post immediately before this one - IDV]
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I would just like to say how amazed I was to receive photos of a flourishing plant from Mago. Quite frankly, I'm still amazed now! To give some context, here are Mago's Garden Photos Event subjects for 2013 and 2014, Plant A and Plant B:
Plant A: Haworthiopsis attenuata (Zebra haworthia)
Plant B: Crassula ovata (Money Tree)
During 2015's GPE, Mago reported the complete dessication of both Plant A and Plant B and that he was still living with their wizened corpses. Norman Bates, anyone?
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As most of us know, dear Mago is an expert word wielder - even in his non-native tongue - so it will not surprise you to learn that he came up with the title, Mago's Garden Com Post, himself.
However... [gives enormous sigh] I can only assume that the "com" is an abbreviated "competition", so I must remind you all again - including you, Mago! - that the Infomaniac Garden Photos Event is NOT A COMPETITION!
The only reason Mago hasn't had a "Banned by Infomaniac" sticker slapped to his forehead is his ingratiating Star Trek reference - which worked, as I found it very clever and amusing. [And that Dinah used up the last of my limited supply in the previous post.]
Anyway, thank you, Mago!
Please return on Friday for the penultimate stop at this year's Garden Photos Event tour: the gardens of UptonKing.
Venetian blinds used as a climbing trellis? Mago is genius!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAlas... I'm a murder of indoor plants...except for a clover plant, that is going on 8 months now.
I am sorry to disappoint you Mistress Maddie : Mago is a lot of things, but seriously no "genius".
DeleteTo the right of the window sits the sink, and while I was once busily doing sink things there, a "Trieb" - shoot or tiller ? - of the plant kept nudging the back of my head. I told it to go away, but finally had to put it behind the blinds. This was the only time I gave the plant directions or forced it to do something the way I liked.
That's an impressive Hoya - especially, given Mr Mago's penchant for murdering houseplants! I agree, the flowers and that honey scent are gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteI grew its smaller cousin Hoya bella many, many years ago, and that was a temperamental bitch that just decided one day to drop all its foliage and die (for no apparent reason). This one looks like it's happy taking over the kitchen, so someone's doing something right. Jx
It is not directly murder Jon - there you need malice ("Vorsatz") and "base motives" ("niedere Beweggründe"). I had no intention to "kill" Plant A & Plant B. Let's say our mutual ideas about living together were incompatible.
DeleteThis plant is allowed to do what it wants, there are no obstacles. It grows in a large pot, and now & then it receives some drink, and besides from what I sketched to Maddie, it is left alone and free to rule.
I guess you could say we broke up
DeleteBecause of artistic differences.
He saw himself as alive,
And I saw him dead!
- "Cell Block Tango"
Jx
I can't have indoor plants. Due to an unfortunate ten-year incident where an innocent (stolen) ficus tree was moved multiple times and tortured to death, I have been banned for life.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry to hear about your unfortunate encounter with a ficus, dear Uptonking. I know what to do with a fica, but I doubt that working a ficus would lead to similar satisfying results.
DeleteAnd you have used the Mago orange font!!
ReplyDeleteI am finding these houseplants very spooky - the Venetian Climber looks capable of taking over the world! Well done, Mr Mags, for keeping it alive!
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I think you'll find it's Mago Mango™, Ms Scarlet! (I try and match the font to the Blogger - yours, for instance, was Libre Baskerville - but I decided to brighten up Mago's Merriweather Sans with Mago Mango™)
DeleteA labour of love - many thanks dearest IDV !
DeleteIn fact it is only one plant, dear MsScarlet. I am sure that it is an independent being happily exploring the space around it. As mentioned above, I do nothing special, except watering, wining, and occasionally beering it.
What's in those bottles? That's what I'd like to know.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is washing up liquid, Blue Nun and two bottles of Hofbräu.
DeleteI was curious about the bottles, too, but only got as far as washing up liquid and beer...
DeleteKeen eyed observers ... To the right is washing liquid, easily identifiable by that specially formed snozzle nozzle things. The two brown bottles with crown caps are of course beer bottles - whether there was "Hofbräu" or some other brew I do not remember. I am pretty sure that it was no "Hofbräu" of any kind, that would be a local "Süßbierspezialität", the tendency in this household goes more to Pils, generally a little more bitter.
DeleteThe screw plug (sorry, that is how my dic translates "Schraubverschluss") belongs most certainly to a 750 ml wine bottle, white ; could be White Burgundy, Chardonnay, Sylvaner - no Riesling, sorry, no Mueller-Thurgau.
Well, that's ONE mystery solved.
DeleteThe hotel room next to ours was occupied by a German couple, in their 60s. We used to nod and 'Morgen' each other in passing. I would often hear them talking on the balcony but I could only pick out the odd word and phrase like alles klar, zusammen und kann ich auf deine titte spritzen Brunhild?
ReplyDeleteYou are spoiling that plant Mago, it needs strict discipline, like I said to my friend and her husband over the weekend when I criticised their obnoxious 4 year old son, that child has got a shock coming to it when he starts school and realises that the world doesn't revolve around him, it's the same with your plant, it has become unruly, it thinks it can do what it pleases. I would bind it tightly around that frame and cut its roots. There!
So Brunhilde's tits are still in good use, happy people then.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry to disagree, dear Mitzi. First, this is not MsScarlet's unruly pink bush, but a happy plant exploring space, unrestricted, even furthered by the other inhabitant (me). So it can not be "unruly", simply because there were no "rules" to defy, only space to transgress. Second this is no bonsai tree, but something free climbing from the jungle, so bind & cut would lead nowhere, I am sure. I think you mentioned "bonsai" sometimes earlier on your blog - is it possible to see some of your vict - objets d'art ?
I'll have you know that my unruly bush is very happy! I have a happy bush! What are you suggesting?????
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Far be it from me to suggest, especially about your unruly, but very happy (!), pink bush. I just went back to your post, and marvelled at it : Ach !
DeleteAnd while I went to see MsScarlet's bush, I came upon Mitzi's little rose - oh !
DeleteTo have an unruly yet happy bush is to be truly alive.
DeleteThank You Inexplicable DeVice !
ReplyDeleteFor allowing me in, I am sure I was late !
For the colour of the font - a very nice gesture !
For digging up Plant A & Plant B - the curtain still hangs.
Sadly I can say nothing about Master Bates and Capt'n Kirk, it's all alien to me, but nevertheless thank you for not sticking it to me publicly. I am feeling exposed now. Nice.
It was quite a thrill to see an entry from you, Herr Mago.
DeleteYou are very welcome, Mago!
DeleteI echo The Very Mistress in that I was thrilled to see your photos pop up in my in-box, and I'm happy to hear that the colourful, crocodile (amongst other animals) curtain still hangs. But, perhaps you could drape it around yourself if you are still feeling exposed?
WOW! Your Hoya/waxenblum looks great! (The best advice I was ever given was never to repot them as they like to be very snug in their "beds" and only bloom when they a comfortable. )
ReplyDeleteWell now I now what a 'Jalousie' is and thanks to google audio dictionary I know how it's pronounced, other wise I wouldn't have a clue. Apparently it comes from a French word meaning 'a support for plants wanting to climb and explore'
ReplyDeleteWe love house plants and I could not imagine a home without them.
Magos, my dear that is a mighty fine Crassula ovata. They really do look like trees don't they. Ours is pretty old but nothing like the size of yours.
Ttfn
Yay, Mago! Looks like you are doing something right with this plant! I have given up on indoor plants except for a tea table of Succulents and Cacti with a grow light. Their need for water aligns with my ability to remember to water them.
ReplyDeleteIt's too bad your other plants died. I also have a Crassula ovata, which we call a Jade plant here.