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Friday was the first day of Spring! Plants should be putting out flowers. I want to see all of your pictures!
I'll start: I was outside in my backyard this morning doing some planting with my mom. We don't have a garden per say. 90% of the plants out back are in pots on the patio. But we have alot of pots!
First I'll start with the two potted trees. Long story short a few years ago we had all decided to get a potted orange tree for my mom to put on the patio. We saw alot of orange trees but ended up coming home with a Mexican Lime tree and a Pomegranate tree.
The first pic is of the lime tree and the rest are of my Pomegranate tree. The lime tree has started producing alot of white flowers recently so soon we will have mini limes! They're kinda small and don't have much juice in them but the flavor is awesome! The Pomegranate tree three or so years old but it's too young to carry the weight of the many Pomegranates it wants to produce, so after the flowers bloom and I take pictures I'm going to pluck them off.
Here's a Pomegranate flower bud. Once the bud gets big enough it splits at the tip and the points become the sepals as the flower petals push through. I could get all technical on you
(I want to someday become a Botanist), but that's the jist of it.
Now for the rest of the potted plants:
The first picture is my mom's Aloe Vera (a cutting from one of her friend's plant) and the second one is mine. My Aloe looks kinda sickly right now. It turns really brown in the winter and it's just getting green again.
Here's some babies from my mom's Aloe that we put in their own pots:
The picture on the left is a plant I don't know the name of. My mom and sister found it and thought it was pretty.
The one on the right is one of those "mini" roses that you find in grocery stores as gifts for loved ones. It's lasted quite a while.
Here's some new tomato plants my mom and I got from Home Depot. We can't go to a garden store without coming home with something.
Almost finally:
The left picture is of my cactus I got at the Venetian Hotel and Casino gift shop the last time I was in Vegas visiting my grandfather. The one on the right is a new succulent container I found at Home depot.
And finally my pride and joy! My Lavender Passionflower!
My mom's friend from work has a giant passionflower and brought some babies in to work. My mom's was the only one to survive but that's because she gave it to me.
It's on a trellis that leans against the side of our garage. I just got another trellis for the other side of the garage window and planted some more clone babies from my mom's friend's mother plant.
For those who have never heard of them, they grow fast in our climate to the point that they are invasive if not kept under control. Don't plant them next to anything else and leave it alone. It will choke the others out. My mom's friend's plant has nearly taken over her yard. I think that her's and my cuttings are a hybrid and they won't produce viable seeds but once mature they will produce new smaller stems from their root system. This plant will come back from the dead. Mine was planted a week or so before Ike and survived. They like Sun to Partial Sun, aren't picky about soil (lives in clay), and you really only need to water it when it gets kinda dry and hasn't rained recently. Mine hasn't bloomed yet but the flowers are supposed to be fantastic and they attract butterflies.
Here's a couple links on them: Link 1 and Link 2
Alright enough about my plants.
I want to see yours!
I'll start: I was outside in my backyard this morning doing some planting with my mom. We don't have a garden per say. 90% of the plants out back are in pots on the patio. But we have alot of pots!
First I'll start with the two potted trees. Long story short a few years ago we had all decided to get a potted orange tree for my mom to put on the patio. We saw alot of orange trees but ended up coming home with a Mexican Lime tree and a Pomegranate tree.
The first pic is of the lime tree and the rest are of my Pomegranate tree. The lime tree has started producing alot of white flowers recently so soon we will have mini limes! They're kinda small and don't have much juice in them but the flavor is awesome! The Pomegranate tree three or so years old but it's too young to carry the weight of the many Pomegranates it wants to produce, so after the flowers bloom and I take pictures I'm going to pluck them off. Here's a Pomegranate flower bud. Once the bud gets big enough it splits at the tip and the points become the sepals as the flower petals push through. I could get all technical on you
(I want to someday become a Botanist), but that's the jist of it.Now for the rest of the potted plants:
The first picture is my mom's Aloe Vera (a cutting from one of her friend's plant) and the second one is mine. My Aloe looks kinda sickly right now. It turns really brown in the winter and it's just getting green again.
Here's some babies from my mom's Aloe that we put in their own pots:
The picture on the left is a plant I don't know the name of. My mom and sister found it and thought it was pretty.
The one on the right is one of those "mini" roses that you find in grocery stores as gifts for loved ones. It's lasted quite a while.Here's some new tomato plants my mom and I got from Home Depot. We can't go to a garden store without coming home with something.
Almost finally:
The left picture is of my cactus I got at the Venetian Hotel and Casino gift shop the last time I was in Vegas visiting my grandfather. The one on the right is a new succulent container I found at Home depot.
And finally my pride and joy! My Lavender Passionflower!
My mom's friend from work has a giant passionflower and brought some babies in to work. My mom's was the only one to survive but that's because she gave it to me.
It's on a trellis that leans against the side of our garage. I just got another trellis for the other side of the garage window and planted some more clone babies from my mom's friend's mother plant. For those who have never heard of them, they grow fast in our climate to the point that they are invasive if not kept under control. Don't plant them next to anything else and leave it alone. It will choke the others out. My mom's friend's plant has nearly taken over her yard. I think that her's and my cuttings are a hybrid and they won't produce viable seeds but once mature they will produce new smaller stems from their root system. This plant will come back from the dead. Mine was planted a week or so before Ike and survived. They like Sun to Partial Sun, aren't picky about soil (lives in clay), and you really only need to water it when it gets kinda dry and hasn't rained recently. Mine hasn't bloomed yet but the flowers are supposed to be fantastic and they attract butterflies.
Here's a couple links on them: Link 1 and Link 2
Alright enough about my plants.
I want to see yours!
Thanks. I half wanted to call it a hibiscus but wasn't sure so I didn't write it. 
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I won't tell anyone. 
I have a potted purple Phalaenopsis orchid that I keep indoors but I didn't take a picture of it. For posting pictures I upload them on Photobucket.com and then use the [IMG] code to put them in the post.
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