My Little Garden

It's been ages since I posted about my flowers, so today I thought I'd show you my beauties.

Once upon a time I saw a post on Hive (it was basically on the legacy chain, but it doesn't matter), about African violets and fell in love with them. Back then I had none, but made it a mission to get some. Lucky me, the post also said how to grow them, so over the years I've grown my collection from zero to like fifteen or so, constantly giving away and selling the excess. They grow and multiply fast, so you'd better have a plan, otherwise you're going to have to make space for them, or throw them away, but honestly, who has the heart to throw away flowers as I don't.

About a month ago, I had a table full of African violets and didn't know what to do with them. Then one nice, sunny day I went to the hairdresser, who's my partner in crime when it comes to flowers and she told me her violets have died, one by one. You can imagine the smile on my face when I heard that. There was my occasion to find a good, loving home for my flowers I didn't need. So I gave her ten violets, or more. I made her day for sure as all of a sudden her missing flowers were replaced.

This was a beautiful violet color, that flowered the first time and looked amazing. I was really happy and satisfied with it, but n the same time I thought my hairdresser would be too, so I took one leaf t grow another and gave this beauty to her.

Needless to say, she was thrilled.

This is the leaf I'm going to place in a pot soon and grow it. I think in a year I'm going to get some nice flowers.

Then I have this one, which is a light purple. I loved it wen I got it, but somehow I have managed to grow too many and at some point I had more than ten of this color alone, so I started giving them away. Now I have three I think.

This is next, basically a surprise as I have no idea what colour it's going to be.

This is the bud, but you can't really see much. It's going to be dark, but other than that, it's just guessing. I'm checking it daily, hoping to reveal itself, but it looks like I have to have more patience.

Then there's this one, I think it's a flamingo flower, or Anthurium that I got for my birthday a few years ago. It was so small, barely taller than a cup and look at it now.

There are five or six in that pot and I've given two to my hairdresser too and I had no idea what to do with so many. It looks better to have many in one big pot I think.

This is a Spathiphyllum, was given to me one year ago because the old owner had asthma and was advised to get rid of flowers. It was nice for awhile, but then it became too big for the space I have available. Most likely you know how much I love flowers and could not throw away any of them, so I've tried to find a good home for it and last month I did.

This is how the flower looks like and this one had one flower when i gave it away.

Last, but not least, my wonderful cactus, which amazes me every year. Last year this beauty had one flower, which opened while I was away and when I got back, I could only admire the dry flower. It upset me quite a lot, but what can you do, right? Then another bud opened a few weeks later, which actually grew before the other and I had the occasion to see the second flower of this cactus.

I took this photo on the 23th of April and was wondering what my cactus wants as there seemed to have too many buds growing. I mean for me there will never be too many, but cacti are known to have one flower per year, so this is why I thought it looked suspicious.

And this is what the buds looked like on the 1st of May, when I had to leave. One of them was already ready to open. I was angry, but there was nothing to do.

This year I was lucky I must admit. When I got back on the 10th of May, all the flowers were still open, except one. And now fasten your seat belts, this year my lovely cactus had NINE flowers! I don't know how, or if this is common, but I could not be more happier.

So this is my flower collection for now. I wish I would have more space, to diversify my collection, but no chance for that right now.

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