15 Responses to My Blooming Garden 3: Floral Friday

1. Sharon Bonin-Pratt says:

   January 5, 2018 at 8:44 am

   These are so gorgeous! What a gardener you are. I grow fallen eucalyptus leaves and concrete hard dirt – one failed plant after another. Yuck!

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   • Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist says:

     January 5, 2018 at 10:15 am

     I am in reality no better than you Sharon which is why I get so excited by my blooms. Roger scours our local hardware store for the dead and dying reduced plants. He brings them home for me to plant. They will often flower beautifully, the last flush, before turning up their toes and succumbing to their poor start in life. Only the very hardy survive but by then another load of dead and dying have come into the household. Eventually the garden will be full of tough plants that look after themselves but will hopefully add a lot of colour to our days.

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     • Sharon Bonin-Pratt says:

       January 5, 2018 at 12:42 pm

       Me too – I’m most successful with asparagus fern which I HATE.

       BTW, did you ever find out what those red waxy flowers are? Bugging the patooties off me (and if you find out what patooties are, please let me know that as well.)

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     • Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist says:

       January 6, 2018 at 9:45 pm

       Hi Sharon I thought I had let you know – I did find out what it is via Facebook. It is Clerodendrum trichotomum or Peanut butter tree. An ornamental fruit but the leaves when rubbed smell like peanut butter. I will check that out later. Comes from Asia. There is another plant with a common name peanut butter tree (Bunchosia argentea) that has yellow flowers followed by a red fruit. These fruits are edible and taste like peanut butter. It is a South American native.

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2. robbiesinspiration says:

   January 5, 2018 at 3:34 pm

   Your garden is a delight, Irene.

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   • Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist says:

     January 6, 2018 at 7:14 am

     I delight in it Robbie.

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3. calmkate says:

   January 6, 2018 at 4:05 am

   like the flowers Irene but that aloe vera also looks very healthy!

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   • Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist says:

     January 6, 2018 at 7:48 pm

     The aloe vera is very healthy and there is a lot of it. My husband would like me to pull it up but I refuse. I should start eating it again.

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     • calmkate says:

       January 6, 2018 at 9:37 pm

       eating it? How do you prepare it? I use mine for burns cuts and bites, didn’t know it was edible.

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     • Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist says:

       January 6, 2018 at 10:04 pm

       Can be eaten cooked or raw. You use the fleshy clear stuff inside and the sticky fluid in Asian and Indian dishes, in smoothies and on salads. It supposedly has a lot of minerals and is a good source of fibre. Warning though – if you have too much it has a laxative effect. I use it topically also but I rarely have anything that needs it. I used to use it on my German Shepherd for excema and it worked well.

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     • calmkate says:

       January 7, 2018 at 4:00 am

       wow what a fabulous plant and so easy to grow

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4. macmsue says:

   January 7, 2018 at 9:14 pm

   The Straw Flowers are stunning I’ve tried to grow them but with no luck.

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   • Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist says:

     January 8, 2018 at 4:53 pm

     I’m keeping my fingers crossed for mine. They really wilt on the hot days but so far have survived. We haven’t had the hot heat you have had down south.

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5. Jane Gealy says:

   January 15, 2018 at 9:24 pm

   They’ve really brightened up my corner of a drab and dreary England – thanks for posting!

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   • Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist says:

     January 17, 2018 at 6:44 pm

     You are more than welcome. They brighten my day also even though we don’t have the cold you have.

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