This was the hiatus announcement photo two years ago. Every year, I intend to do another one -- last year was going to be the bromeliad family (Bromeliaceae), but I didn't have a good place to set up for the photo, and wasn't sure what I'd do to make them festive (having done bows already, in 2008). This year, it was going to be the fig/mulberry family (Moraceae), and we had the decoration part of it covered, because we threw lights on the giant Ficus benjamina. But, the lights are "white" LEDs, and actually photograph kind of blue,1 and not particularly clearly, and we don't have lights for all the Ficuses in the house, and so it was just not possible this year. Again. Even though I'd started thinking about it in, like, September.
Therefore, a repeat.
Middle row: Epiphyllum oxypetallum, Stenocereus thurberi, Isolatocereus dumortieri.
Front row: Cereus peruvianus, Rhipsalis teres var. heteroclada (?), Schlumbergera x 'Caribbean Dancer,' Browningia hertlingiana (?), Leuchtenbergia principis.
For the record, all the plants in the photo are still with me two years later, except for the Schlumbergera x buckleyi, which may or may not be (it was one of four or five plants, of which I still have two: the others have been sold or traded away, and I have no way to know which one was in the photo), and the Echinocereus grusonii, which just couldn't hack the low light, and I couldn't provide it with more light, so I wound up throwing it away in May. All the rest are still here, and a few of them are doing so well lately that you'd hardly recognize them, even. So.
Unlike in 2010, this isn't a hiatus announcement: there will be an orchid on Christmas. I just don't really have anything very interesting happening with the plants right now, so this was the best I could come up with for a blog post.
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8 comments:
The lights on the ficus make it look sort of extraterrestrial. Very pretty.
Dang, that's a healthy Ficus! Gorgeous!
I'm probably going to take a hiatus after tomorrow. I've been sooo busy in December, a break would be nice.
I hope you have a great Christmas, mr_s!
The ficus almost looks like the Pleiades.
I like both. The ficus looks great lit up. Ficus was sort of a standard holiday tree back in my university/apartment days. They worked for a lot of college students. They take decoration pretty well. Along with Norfolk pines. But that was decades ago.
Texas Anon
I could see that Cactus family photo every year and never get bored of it.
Happy holidays, Mr. S!
Wow, what a beautiful Ficus! Happy holidays, Mr. S!
I can't tell if your ficus is haunted or the aliens are coming.
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! I love the lit up Ficus, xmas lights make anything festive, they're good like that.
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