This is only my second
bloom day and I was worried I would have nothing to show. Outside everything is covered is snow, so even if it WERE blooming, I wouldn't know it, or be able to take a picture of it. And I'm not much of a house plant person, so inside, all I had was this mum, a leftover from a friend's research
and this kalanchoe, a gift from my... what do you call her? My aunt-in-law, I guess. (what is the proper term for your spouse's aunt?)
I thought I was going to have to resort to the paper snowflakes I made, "blooming" on the Christmas tree (I'm not sure why the tree came out blue... it is actually green. I was messing around with the evaluative white balance on my camera, this happened, and I decided I like it)
But then I had a thought: My research for my PhD involves a whole greenhouse full of blooming plants! Not technically my garden, but close enough! Quite a brilliant idea, if I do say so myself. There is anyways something blooming at work! I shall never be without on a bloom day. Well, until I graduate anyway...
Salvia cacaliifolia
Salvia involucrata
Happy Bloom Day everyone!
4 comments:
We take our blooms where and how we can get them in the winter, won't we? A very nice showing on a cold December day!
That was a smart idea! Over Thanksgiving we got a tour of the greenhouse at the university where my son is working on his phd. What a fun place. gail
Great idea. The photo of the snowflake is great - Glad you included it!
Touring other gardens is perfectly acceptable for Bloom Day according the the 2009 handbook. If there was a greenhouse near me, I'd be in it.
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