Weeds
 

I found this weed in my garden.

And it is ...................? :confused:

A beautiful white orchid.

My first bloom in a couple of months.

Wish I had a few of them growing in my garden.

Here in the tropics, you just put the pots where they'll survive, and in their own good time they flower. I won't put up a shadecloth tent and coddle them like some do, they just travel at their own pace (like me).

Beautiful. And, my kind of gardening ... stick 'em in the ground and let them do the work. :)

sold here as dendrobiums I think.

My mom is able to grow them but I have had no luck here. Congratulations! She's a beauty!

Thanks Lil.

We think it's a dendrobium also.

purdy

Very nice, OF. I take a very Darwinian approach (as do you, no?:D) to gardening. I only water the plants I planted myself; everything else, it's got to survive by its own planty wits.

I believe in the Assisted Darwinian approach.

Some things I don't want, but are too close to things I do want, get hit with boiling water from the kettle.

No poison spray on the good stuff, and cheaper than glyphosphate.

More weeds in my garden.

Very pretty!

It was hiding in a corner.

I only stumbled on it by chance.

I'm not entirely sure I entirely believe that. :)

It's true.

A number of pots I'd stuck there "in transit", and got no further with, chose to surprise me.

Anything I put in a pot surprises me by dying. Although, truly, it's not really that much of a surprise at this point!

Orchids live where lesser plants die.

Thats a pretty weed.

Trade ya' three local weeds for three orchids. :)

Throw in a bottle of Johnnie Walker an we'll consider it. LOL.

This one's not an orchid, but a creeper I'm leading into a frame over my back gate.

We call it an Alamanda here. We have them in yellow too.

Pretty.

Because I'm such a botanist, we call it "oooh, pretty pink flower" at my house. :D I admire yours and Lil's command of the planty lore.

They're close cousins.

Sounds similar to mechanic lingo. Parts suddenly become lists of interesting swear words when stubborn, or such wonderful phrases such as "thingamadoomer", "doomaflachy", etc.

It looks akin to what I know as morning glory. :shrug:

I sure wish dandolions would come into vogue. They do so well and I don't even plant them. :shrug:

My morning glory doesn't look anything like that, thank chrysanthemum.

I found a patch of these on the block this morning. It's a ground orchid which had climbed a grass stem for support. I didn't get a chance to photograph it for about an hour after picking (against M's kindle reader for contrast), and dug out a Yank cent coin for comparison.

Pretty ^^^

Our ornamental ginger is throwing some flowers.

These are a little bigger than a tennis ball, on a 3 ft stalk.

We have forms of ornamental ginger here too but the flowers are more cone like.

There are probably a gazillion gingers.

A totally different ginger (just found this one hidden behind a leaf), with a Heliconia in the background.

Beautiful

This is a crab-claw Heliconia, pretty even before it opens.

The green ant on the tip is a bit over 1/2 inch long, they're nasty, nomadic meat eaters and their bums taste of lemon.

I try really hard not to go around tasting bums. :p

The ants only live up here in the tropics. Aboriginal kids used to eat the ant tails as a kind of flavour burst. You can smell the lemon when you crush them. Nasty rotten things they are. They colonise a plant, pulling leaves together to form a nest. A new generation is hatched and then they move on.

The crab-claw and the ginger have opened.

Also, a confrontation between a grren ant and a native stingless bee.