New Surprises

New Bougainvillea I got for free!

I'm running late of my blog posts.I have meant to post this around 3 days ago. It's hard for me to post what happened on a particular day so I do it at night for the next day. Sometimes too many things happen and I don't want to smash them all in one post. Plus I like to be able to have things to post about so I try to spread things out. Anyways, work on Monday I got a free Bougainvillea hanging basket. My manager was going to take them home until they start to bloom again since the blooms got blown away from the crazy wind we had sunday. We had got a new shipment in that day and he asked if I wanted one. Of course I couldn't say no even though I already have a Bougainvillea.


Dimorphotheca aurantica 'African Moon'

It has bloomed! My patience has prevailed. I wanted to see this bloom so badly and it's beautiful. I didn't realize that the apricot on it would be so vibrant. The Dimorphotheca has 2 other buds getting ready also. It's so beautiful I just love it.


Caladium Sprouts

I was fearful that my Caladium was not going to sprout. Seeds are relatively easy for me to grow but bulbs I always seem to make them rot. I had thought I had made this one rot too but it made it. The time frame is 3-5 weeks I think for a Caladium bulb to sprout. It was just about 4 weeks take away 2 days that mine sprouted. I'm concerned because I had purchased these from one of those open bulb boxes. I'm thinking I got one that was not what I picked out. My choice was a caladium that had white leaves with green edging and maybe veins. I was thinking maybe White Wing or Aaron. So far the leaves are just green. Hopefully when it grows more the true colors will show.



New Growth on my Jacqueline Hillier Elm

My bonsai is alive. Just when I was about to toss it out too. I had looked at the roots last week and thought it was dead. Soon afterwards some leaves popped out by the base and a bud was about to open. I pinched off the bottom leaves as much as I hated to. It just don't look good bonsai or not. I love the little leaves of this tree so I'm glad it survived.


Snake Plant baby

The Snake Plant has a new baby! This is the second baby for this plant that has popped up. The first baby is large now and the size of the others that were already grown. Maybe I'll have a nice big Snake Plant sooner then I expected.


Daylily scape

Thankfully I will have some daylily blooms. I had been hoping some of them would bloom. When I purchased them I bought so many and crammed most of them in one big pot. I had read that when they are too close together they won't bloom. I was scared but I have about 3 scapes coming up from different daylilies. This one in the photo is Painters Palette Dayliy. It will be apricot with a gold throat.


Dracaena marginata 'Tricolor' has new growth

Lastly for now this great surprise. This is yet again another plant that I was waiting for it to grow back. It hadn't shown any life so I had just said I will rip it out. Then when I go to take it out bam there is new growth and it is clearly alive. It's hard to see in the photo past the devil's backbone but there are 2 little dracaena growth on each side of the base.

I do have a few more surprise but I'll save them for next time. Anyone else out there have any surprises from their garden lately?

New Buds and New Growth

Weeping Dwarf Crape Myrtle "Sacramento" has buds.

Today to my surprise I saw some signs of life in two things I thought for sure must be dead. First my crape myrtle is showing some buds. This is very excited for me. I really thought I would have to be getting rid of this dead tree. When I bought it I potted it in a new home. It didn't like the new home and environment thus dropping all it's leaves. Nothing ever came back after over half a year. It was really coming down to whether or not there would be any new growth this spring. Now there are buds so it is alive. I'm very glad because I loved the Weeping Dwarf Crape Myrtle.


More buds everywhere.

Now I really thought I had killed this next plant for sure. I got it and it was in a decent condition but small. I potted it up with the dianthus pinnochio mix. The dianthus took off but the Dr Ruppel Clematis did not. It stayed the same and the leaves browned. Yet it again is was just up for time to tell if it was alive or not. I have not looked at the clematis for a month now. Today I checked it out since other things and other trees and shrubs around in San Antonio are starting to get new leaves and buds. New leaves!!! It is alive so I will be having a clematis growing. I'm kind of concerned though because the dianthus has grown so much. I'm not sure if the clematis will need it's own pot that isn't crowded with roots already. I'm assuming that the pot has many roots in it considering how the dianthus looks. Yet again if anyone can give me some help on that it would be greatly appreciated. I just didn't want to pot it up while it is starting to finally show signs of life and risk transplant shock or whatever else. Do you think the clematis will be okay with it's dianthus buddy? I like the dianthus there because it shades the roots and doesn't allow the sun to really get to it. Right now I think it's in an 8 inch pot so it's not big at all. I have no idea how big of a pot a clematis would need or if it will even survive in a pot at all.


Dr. Ruppel Clematis has new leaves.