Category: Flora

Clover

On By CarynIn Flora

Here is another opportunity for finding four-leaf clovers! My answer in the second picture.

Photo description: patch of clover in my front yard
Photo description: same patch of clover with seven purple circles on four-leaf clovers

Clover gazing

On By CarynIn Flora

Here are two more opportunities for clover gazing. (Hint, think squares instead of triangles when looking for four-leaf clovers.)

Photo description: closeup of a patch of clover
Photo description: same patch of clover as above, with a five-leaf clover circled in red, and a four leaf clover circled in blue

Let’s go again.

Photo description: same patch of clover a couple days later
Photo description: same picture as above with the five-leaf clover circled in red, and four-leaf clovers circled in blue, purple, and yellow

Happy gazing.

Terrarium redo

On By CarynIn Flora, Garden

The mossarium I made in a case was not doing well. I tried adding a plant light and it was too much for some of the moss. After six months of steady decline, I decided to clean out the container and put in something else. I have a young African violet that I received from a friend that currently fits.

Photo description: small African violet sitting in a leaf shaped tea light saucer on a variety of rocks and stones inside a closed glass terrarium

Aftermath

On By CarynIn Flora

My poor spider plant has been neglected for a while, and left to its own devices for everything but water (I do water it twice weekly). I got a bee in my bonnet and finally gave it a good clean up, including trimming dead leaves and separating out the babies.

Photo description: the aftermath of my spider plant cleaning frenzy, a tangle of leaves and stalks on the floor
Photo description: cleaned up spider plant hanging in the window
Photo description: old canning jar filled with water and spider plant babies

When the spider plant babies root out, I’ll plant them in another hanging pot. I did select the longest leaves from the pile of discards and are letting them dry so I can attempt to make some twine from them eventually.

Cactus terrarium update

On By CarynIn Flora, Uncategorized

Of the original planting of my tea jar terrarium, I had three varieties survive. It was looking rather sparse, so I added succulents from another pot we had hanging in a window.

Photo description: top down photo of my tea jar terrarium with six varieties of succulents and two carved stone figurines

I’ve increased the artificial light from 9 hours to 12 to see if that makes the cactus happier.