My amaryllis today… She had four big flowers in total, during the second blooming in early February.
Already two leaves (the shortest ones) have turned brown, got rotten and dried up. I don’t know why… But there’s also a new leaf growing, again. And the longest leaf…
Well, the longest leaf is… long. 🙂 Hopefully it stays this way. At least I’ve been trying to take good care of my amaryllis… I’ve been trying to give it reasonable amounts of water and fertilizer.
So, just hoping now…
-Leena
It’s March… quite nice, almost incredible! Lately we’ve had snow and sunshine, grey days, temperatures below freezing and wet snow… everything. And we just may have been hit by the biggest snowfall for this winter earlier this week as well – here in southern Finland we sometimes have this too-much-snow-too-late-it-should-have-been-at-Christmas -thing… But yes, this week’s snow, too, has already been melting. No one’s stopping spring! 🙂
The first 13 pictures I took today, the last two are from last night.
Moss magic at the summer flower bed…
Backyard pine trees.
A clover flower…
A strawflower flower… power. 😉
An annual mallow flower…
…and another…
…a few more…
Perhaps I should plant annual mallow seeds, too, in many places in the garden this spring – then there would be some lace all around the garden in wintertime, how nice would that be? 😀
Double sun… 😉
An Egyptian friend…
At the potato field…
Even though the days may be warm, the nights can be a bit cold:
“I adjusted the thermostat so that it will be a bit warmer in here… is that okay…?”
“Purr… nice! I’m telling you…”
Our radiator tiger. 🙂
-Leena
It’s already March next week! But, there’s still some time to enjoy snow and… ahem, some winter pics. 🙂
The first five pics I took yesterday.
It’s been a nice winter week. First we had one night of raining… WATER, but it didn’t melt all the snow, and after that night it started to snow, and now it’s been snowing with the temperatures being moderate and nice winter temperatures; between 0 and about -10 degrees Celsius, and some days the sun has been shining delightfully as well. And the sun is warming a bit, loving us…
But no, we haven’t had, like, heaps of snow this winter – we’ve just had freaking cold weather at times. So, in these pics here now is to be seen our snow record for this winter… Yeah well, it’s been snowing a bit today as well, but… you get the picture, I believe. 🙂
Okay, still some time to take winter coffee pics…
The sturdy clarkia or godetia flowers, too, still standing. I’ll plant clarkia seeds this spring as well, but this time, in many places in the garden.
Blue sky, love…
The next two pics I took on the day before yesterday.
One of those snowfalls it was. And this was at 17:45 PM – a huge increase in the number of daylight hours: on the 16th of December I wrote that the sunset was at 15:12 PM here where I’m living, and the length of the day was 5 hours 31 minutes. Today the sun sets at 17:47 PM and the length of the day is 10 hours 5 minutes – twice the energy already! 🙂
And the rest of the pics are again from yesterday.
Taller than the trees…? 😉
At the strawflowers again…
And this pic I took through a car window as we were travelling to Turku. This was at about 16:30 PM – not long ago it was completely dark at that hour! 🙂
-Leena
My amaryllis today:
She really did it! 🙂
The bud was so thin that I thought that there would be only one flower and I believed that the flower would be tiny and poor, but… wow! There’s already two big flowers, and too new buds as well.
I wonder if this now is the last time my amaryllis has flowers… 😮 And it had three leaves growing, but one of them (the shortest one) has now turned brown, and it’s not even dry, just rotten… As I said before; I’m not at all confident…
But yes, this now… As majestic as ever…
It’s been freezing cold again and there’s still snow. But the sun’s been shining and it truly is warming nicely during the daytime! And it’s so bright…
-Leena
A surprise and some doubts. My first ever amaryllis had seven big flowers in December and in early January. And two short but broad leaves that were having a bit more length at the end of the flowering. And then suddenly a new flower stem started to emerge. I wasn’t expecting that.
Whoa, too fast! 😀 – It really was. I’m actually not at all confident with plants that have bulbs – confident with the bulbs – they always become soft (=normal?), no matter how you water the plants. My amaryllis bulb has become a bit soft, of course, too… And… how much can you actually peel the bulb then? 😮
Okay, first I thought I wasn’t giving my plant enough water, because I really was paying attention to the amount of water I gave her during the flowering. And yes, now I’m thinking that perhaps I now have given my plant too much water – when I last gave her water, because the flower stem got so wild. 😮 But I know that I should now fertilize this plant, its bulb, a bit.
Some fertilizer into this original pot with poor potting soil that my amaryllis still is in, or should I now put my plant into a new pot with nutritious potting soil that I bought yesterday…? I think I’ll choose the latter – I should have done it earlier, I know. 🙂
Okay, let’s just see what happens, I really was only hoping that my amaryllis would start to grow her leaves, but then this surprise happened. 😀 But yes, now there’s also a third leaf growing.
-Leena
…aren’t we all…? In my opinion, all the four seasons are amazing and phenomenal. I’m equally excited about them all! That’s how I feel. 🙂 They all come and go… Beautiful, different… power…!
The first four pics I took today.
We’ve had delightful sunny days! But at one point it was a bit too warm… here in the southern part of Finland it was warmer than in many parts in Spain – in wintertime, in the middle of the night! 😮 But we’ve had snow all the time now.
Some days water is dripping… some days birds are singing – spring really is drawing near!
Dreaming of expanding our growing field again…
Okay, it was on January 2nd that I started planning it all… spring… garden… I didn’t do it on purpose on that day, so it was a bit funny to notice what I already was thinking about.
And the strawflowers are still there! Standing, and with their petals. They are so tough. I’ll plant strawflower seeds everywhere in our garden this year! 😀
An ice lantern again, a week ago was this. We’ve had four or five ice lanterns this winter, clear or pink as this, too, again was.
Ice light… And by now the daylight has increased wonderfully! 🙂
-Leena
Now some more amaryllis flower pics. The first four pics I took on New Year’s Eve.
The second flower was opening.
And the snow we had, melted, the day before – can be seen through the window…
The scent of the amaryllis flowers is gentle, sophisticated, lovely…
The last pics of Christmas hyacinths, on New Year’s Day.
And yes, it snowed again, on New Year’s Day! It snowed a lot at one point. 🙂 And the snow is still there today.
The scent of my four hyacinths was at its prime – marvellous! I’m dreaming of a yellow hyacinth for the coming spring…
The second amaryllis flower… and the third and the fourth opening.
I heart…
A majestic plant!
The next two pics I took today.
Four flowers. And still one bigger bud and two smaller buds. I honestly thought that there would be three flowers. A fairly nice surprise. 🙂
Okay, we think about (and try out) the growing of amaryllis as a green houseplant, here in Owlnature, a bit later, after this flowering…
It’s freezing cold today. The temperature’s been between -15 degrees Celsius and -20 degrees Celsius – the last mentioned was at night and in the morning. But the sun was shining today as well! The sunlight even felt slightly warm on one’s face. 🙂
The funny black sister to her tiger brother: “I’m sorry I punched you in the face when I was hungry…” (“And, by the way, I’m not as fat as I look in this pic…”)
Yeah well, she’s not, I confirm, but oh… oh my, this really happened on New Year’s Day! – These two were lying side by side on the couch! 😀 Here in my blog you’ve always met these two separately – that’s just the way it is, they don’t normally sleep together anymore – when they were younger, they often did, but nowadays, no no, only, like, two or three times a year at most we see this. Okay, they started off 2017 like this. 🙂
And yes, that princess is in the habit of punching (not scratching) her brother in the face, with her claws, when she’s hungry or bored, or whatever… She just does it – out of the blue and randomly. But our cats do play or fight with each other,too. They have always lived together – really a sister and a brother. 🙂
-Leena