A rainy day stroll in Glaukus' garden

[Strontium Dawg]

Hi Folks.

Cabin fever is starting to set in after several days of rainy weather, but at least the garden is looking good.

Here's a few pics.

Some baby Psychotrias - Carthagenensis and Nexus are doing well, the shipibo and viridis are a bit slower to sprout.

Cannas loving the rain, Caapi, Morning Glory and Obtusifolia down the back, Psycho0 to the right. Down back to the left there is peruvianus "GH", bridgesii "Ben" and peruvianus "KK2152".

Incarvillea sinensis with Budleia.

Iochroma australe doing well, the small Acacia simplex has stalled, maybe it's too cold down here for it? There's an Ecuador Pink Brugmansia in there too, but the sanguineas I sprouted from Bogfrog's seeds have been shredded constantly by caterpillars. They're almost like sacrificial anodes, the caterpillars eat them exclusively and wont touch anything else! They must be yummy...

Chillies: Yellow 7 pots, Chocolate habs, Brain strain 7 pots, peruvianus, yowie, eileen, terscheckii, ss01xss02, super pedro and some kanna in this bed with red Brugmansia sanguinea from Interbeing and an Ecuador pink Brug from an old lady in my neighbourhood.

My favourite Hibiscus: "Pink Rays".

This Frangipani has nostalgic value to me. It is a cutting from a tree my Grandad had in his back yard which was there since the 1950's, and it brings back good memories of my childhood. I'm glad to have these cuts to keep it alive.

Morning Glory "Heavenly Blue" and Brugmansia "Sacred Sunset" from Bullit. There's a Turbina Corymbosa hiding in there somewhere too.

Some of Interbeing's awesome crosses.

Astrophytum asterias "Superkabuto" graft and some Lophophora williamsii "Koehres".

Some Lophs that got munched by some creature on Christmas day...

macrogonus.

Well, that's enough for now. I'll start documenting the rest of the collection for posterity soon.

Hope you enjoy these pics. It's a modest garden but it's kept me sane ( kind of )...

(edited to get the right cacti descriptions in the right photos)

Edited January 6, 2016 by Glaukus

[Conv3rgence]

Beautiful, looks like a nice intimate space, peacefully surrounded by wonderful plants. Did you have those grafts on a table in a tray and they still got munched? Maybe you need some of bogs sacrificial anodes around the base of your graft table.

[Strontium Dawg]

Yeah! I hedge my bets, I keep some grafts in a fishtank like that superkabuto but some live out in the open. I guess mice were having a christmas party.

[toast]

Awesome photos!

[Brendo]

Thanks for sharing G! I haven't seen my garden for a few days either, makes for a nice surprise when you venture out again

[theuserformallyknownasd00d]

Nice work G!

[nrivers]

Very nice garden mate, that macrogonus is a looker!

[Strontium Dawg]

She pumps out basal pups like nobody's business too. I'll have a couple up for grabs soon.

[Horus]

Very nice. Healthy looking plants. Nice mix, thanks for the peek.

[Alice]

Fantastic Glaukus, great garden! Thanks for posting.

[Sallubrious]

It's always good to see an ethno garden before it takes over the whole backyard. Yours was especially good because it's so well kept and orderly.

I'm just wondering what the issue is with that simplicifolia, mine always seem to be fairly hardy vigorous beasts. Everything else looks luscious and really healthy, so you'd expect the Acacia to do well too.

That being said, they are a tropical plant that thrives in warm weather, so maybe it's just waiting for summer to kick in so it can get its bearings and put down some good feeder roots.

I don't know what you're feeding the plants with but sometimes with organic ferts boron deficiencies can cause stunted growth in simplicifolia, many organic ferts are almost devoid of boron - even if you add seasol it can still be locked up & unavailable because of the microbial balance of the soil/rootzone. It's not uncommon when people use powerfeed.

Simplicifolia is very salt tolerant so sometimes a dose of chemical ferts containing boron could help to get it moving until it gets its roots into the subsoil.

Edited January 6, 2016 by Sally

[Strontium Dawg]

Good advice there sally.

Funny you mention how orderly things look...if only you could have seen it a few months ago...

One of the unintended benefits of being temporarily unemployed is that I've had plenty of time to spend in the garden! I thought I'd better get some photos before it degenerates again!

[upside]

Great pics and garden.

Love the pic of the the macro, colours are so rich

Thanks for sharing.