🌿💛Epiphyllum var buttercup💛 🌿

 

So I climbed in and snapped a couple of pics , almost hanging upside down  . And found the label  which says this is Epiphyllum var buttercup .......not E. cooperi . 

Epie  cooperi is in there , very close to it at the back . Looking very tatty . It needs to be pulled out and given some serious pampering .

                                             . . 🐌....  and I can see a snail  !  

                                                      Bye !   

🌿🤍Epiphyllum update 🤍🌿

                       This morning in the greenhouse ....can you see them ? 

   Epiphyllum var buttercup  ( not E. cooperi  🌿I climbed in and found the label ! )

 This is how it looked yesterday evening . It has the most beautiful bud . 

No fragrance detected just yet ...maybe later on . Oh my heart ! It is beautiful !

I couldn't reach to get a photo of it from the front side . I'll try and climb in there and have another go later on .

And then ...........

                   🌿🤍 Epiphyllum crenatum  🤍🌿

                                                                🌿🤍🌿

                  Is your heart beating faster too ? 🤍 So lovely !

I acquired these many years ago from Mr Pilbeam of Connoisseurs Cacti  . Many of my cacti came from him too .

( Ignore the yellow Hylocereus undatus label...it's in the big pot behind . This one is E. crenatum )

Hylocereus undatus - possibly the largest plant in my greenhouse .Very generously given to me by my botanical brother . In a massive tub and scrabbling along a branch . It grows very fast , it punctures it's way through the netting and continues along above it in the roof . I 'm thinking maybe it wants more sunshine than all my Epiphyllums can take . I've had it for years and years ...it has never produced a flower .

I have taken some cuttings from it and will experiment with them to find a better position for it . ☀️

                     Lots of lovely new Epi shoots in the morning sunshine .

                     So now I must turn my thoughts to my Passiflora seedlings !

                                       They need repotting . My job for today .

                            Passiflora manicata and Passiflora mollissima .

I like my plants to grow the way they want to grow . A little bit of scrabbling about through my Epies might actually be cool .

but

 .... then again , maybe these are beginning to run the risk of getting totally out of control !

I like a little bit of totally out of control . 🤔  Plants definitely like to be out of control . 

                🌿I have a feeling these might want to take over the planet !  🌍

                                   Make it a great day ! Sending love ! 

                                                🌿☀️🌿 

    correction 🙄- So I climbed in and found the label ! It was not E.cooperi but E.var buttercup .   💛

🌿💛Epiphyllum var Buttercup

 

                                                 Epiphyllum var "Buttercup"

 Right at the back in amongst a joyful romping of phylloclades . 

Phylloclades -  It's what Epie leaves /stems are more properly called 🌿and these are actually the most wonderful apparatus for climbing rocky banks and scrabbling along amongst damp and mossy detritus filled nooks and crannies , putting down roots as they go along up in the trees of the warm , humid and shady forests of South America .

After they have finished blooming , I will be repotting and taking cuttings . After letting the cut ends heal over for a couple of days , they will take root fairly easily and do well simply stuck into some good quality multi purpose potting compost with a bit of perlite mixed in .

Some folks put them in hanging baskets and they look really great . I can't do that or my little greenhouse roof would fall in under the weight !

Some varieties seem to grow more upright and in the background you can see a cage support ...but the Epie changed it's mind and decided to escape it .  So now it is tangled up in the darned thing ! 

While the old greenhouse was being taken down and the new one put up , the Epies were moved about and haven't produced their lovely flowers for a couple of years . 

There are still a couple more buds waiting to open .  The moment is fleeting , they remain open only for a day or two if you are lucky and depending on the variety .

Some only flower at night and are gone by morning .

                   This one has lasted about three days  .

                                         Sending you a hug and my love  x    

                                                       

                                                            🌿☀️🌿