Sometimes bump rules pays off . It all commence last yr . I had a nimiety of the common houseplant recognize by many as the Sea Onion , or Bowiea volubis , a South African aboriginal , you might be familiar with seeing it at bound flower shows , or on windowsill grown as a novelty , with its unusual twining branches which bet precisely like emerald green branches of precious coral emerging from a shiny , fleshy absolutely greenish sphere which sit on the soil like a large dinosaur egg . The problem with Bowiea , is that one never really knows what to do with it , and it usually is seen just tumbling out of a clay quite a little , and pay heed off of the windowsill .
I really do n’t call back why I decided to pot the Bowiea I had into a large pot , but I do remember think about throwing them into the compost pile since they had divided into far too many than anyone could ever want or need . But there were too large , almost softball sizing spheres that I felt required a future , but I needed something for them to produce on . I found the treillage , but it only agree into one massive 14 inch clay pot , but then it all fall together . Why not do something indulgent , and potty ALL of my Bowiea into one large tidy sum , and watch the branches squirm and crawl up the trellis ? To make a long level unforesightful , I did this , it count awesome , and by July , the intact cone was covered with green coral . endearing .
Cardinal Creeper is a funny little annual which is seldom seen or grown , I think because it ’s just one of those annual that one always sees in the catalogs , but which you never grow . I had n’t even assay it before , I think because I really do n’t have a place to turn it . But then , who really has a ‘ position ’ quick for morning glory ’s and Ipomoea x multifida any way ? The only mode around this handycap , is to find places , and found this pot of Bowiea . The leafage on the Cardinal Creeper might be its best asset , but then , that is also the good asset if not the only asset of Bowiea . A staring wedlock .
The blossoms of Ipomoea x multifida are so red , they are challenging to photograph in full belated summertime cheer .
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