Another Day in the Greenhouse 🪾

 Four little cuttings of quite a rare or at least a quite hard to find plant .

Found nice person selling cuttings at a very reasonable price , very happy me !

 Irresistibly fascinating 🧐. Extraordinarily weird 🥸 - Euphorbia platyclada .

  Madagascar is it's natural habitat . Sub-tropical and tropical dry forests . Perfectly camouflaged to look like dried up vegetation and sticks lying amongst the rocks on the woodland floor .

Anyway .....

I have potted them up in a mixture of potting compost , grit and perlite .

I have no idea how fast or slow growing they might be .

I'll be watching closely for signs of new growth .

They don't have leaves .

They do have tiny ,very simple flowers that are typical of most Euphorbias . I look forward to seeing it in bloom .

👿Also like all Euporbias - it has a poisonous , milky looking , caustic sticky sap and great care should be made in handling it .Wear gloves and do not touch eyes ...if it does come into contact with eyes ...seek medical attention immediately !👿

Apart from that , it just looks like a bunch of dead sticks ! 😀  🪾

Allow cuttings to callous over before potting them up .

Of course it is more commonly known as the Dead Stick Plant  . 

              Please ignore this label !

It is a succulent ,  not a cactus  !   I have to make another label !

So , I am left thinking .....how would I know if these cuttings don't take ? 🤔🤣

             Watch this space ! 😀 

                                   Peace and Love    🕊️🤍

                   Make it a great weekend !  Love Debbie 💐x

                                               🌤️

💐Flowers for the Table 💐

 You may have noticedthat I didn't do my usual "flowers for the table"post last week .

This is because there are hardly any flowers in the garden to pick , due to the long drought .

I managed to find a few today ; enough to cobble together what turned out to be a rather extravagant arrangement !

Two very small blue hydrangea sprays , one small spary of Rosa "Bonica", a very small spray of red Pelargoniums . The rest is Bay , Pittasporum and Miscanthus sinensis .

                   What do you think ? 😀 lol ! 

Followed by a stroll along the beach .....

   

                                   Peace and Love 🕊️🤍

                                           Debbie 💐x

Still in the Greenhouse

 

Taking me longer than I thought !  I'm still clearing out the Tomato plants , pulling out the "grow pot-bags" , tipping out the spent compost and folding and putting them away for another year . 

It's a job that I had thought would only take me ten minutes . I've been up in the greenhouse for most of the morning .

 It's been a horrible mucky task and my back is telling me to stop now , after my spine injury last year and a week in hospital , I really don't want that to happen again .

Ricardo will wheel this down to one of the vegetable beds for me , I'll spread it all out and let the worms do the work for me .

               One odd shaped cucumber for sandwiches !

I finished off greenhouse operations with a bit of a sweep and that's my lot for today !

         Ricardo has done a great job of cutting the grass in the meadow .

We've had a few hefty rain showers over night . The water-barrels are full and the grass is growing away fast again after the long dry summer  . 

               It's sunny and breezy today 🌤️hope you are having a great week .

                              Peace and Love 🕊️🤍

                                            love Debbie 💐x