Epiphyllum Curt Backeberg - update 🌿

 

Apologies everyone , Epiphyllum Curt Backeberg is keeping us waiting !

It's a bit overcast this morning , he's waiting for the sun to come out !

There are actually two buds on him this year . 

So while we're waiting I'll show you around the shed .

Celery , kale, coriander and lettuce . Yellow sticky labels to catch compost gnats ....not sure they're working to be honest , but the plants are doing o.k. 

Moving up the bench - Only four of my first batch of sweetcorn germinated , so yesterday I sowed another lot in that propagator with the clear lid . 

 Another tray of Lettuce seedlings struggling in the heat . 

Epie cuttings . My new Echinocereus and Iguanodon 🦖 . Crambe maritima seedlings . Cardoon seedling (only one germinated !)

Lemon verbena and Helianthemum plug plants ...Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri rooted cutting ready to send up to my mother as I think she lost hers during their house move . It is a cutting that originally came from mum's which was possibly a cutting that was originally taken from the one my grandmother had on her windowsill .

 I'll show you my bigger one that I have on my kitchen windowsill later on .

 So then , more Epie cuttings ..King Midas and Marilyn Monroe .

Epiphyllum Marilyn Monroe - not showing any signs of flowering this year .  

  She needs tidying up , she's climbed out of her plant support and wants to go rambling about !

             🌿🩷   Here are some pics of last year's amazing flower 🩷🌿

                              🌿   Epiphyllum Marilyn Monroe 🌿

                                               Click twice 😊

                            🌿 Epiphyllum Marilyn Monroe  🌿

 

 Nice view over lovely new gate into the meadow , which I think , will soon be cut and baled  .

              I took the leek , beetroot and other seedlings  out of the shed now .

I'll bring them on outside for a while before planting them out .

 Giving everything a nice long drink during this hot weather .

 Three Furcraea longaevas waiting to be planted out in the new tropical bed . It's just been way too hot to start on that .

    I need to get these planted out very soon and sow some more Beetroot .

  The water barrel's are almost empty . Hoping we'll get some rain soon to refill them and refresh everything .

  It has been uncomfortably hot , too hot for me ....too hot in the greenhouse for some of my plants !

 I almost lost my tomato plants , but managed to revive them .

I fixed up some windbreak mesh to give a bit of shade in the greenhouse . 

 This morning it is a little bit misty and overcast , but that hot sun is now trying to burn through .

                                      🌿    Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri 🌿

         🌿 Pretty scarlet star flowers of Rhpsalidopsis gaertneri 🌿

   

       Hopefully E. Curt Backeberg will bloom for us later on .

              Take care of your plants in this hot weather ☀️🐝🦋