Plant Bonanza

Here recently I've acquired a number of new plants, none of which are pictured here, EXCEPT this guy. I'm rotating it in and out of the house, whenever it's shady on the porch. Perhaps next year I'll transplant it into a larger pot and keep it outside, but it's a little sensitive to the dry heat. Thanks to the six tenths of an inch of rain that we had last night, however, the humidity is sky high, and the plant seems to like that. It's a Japonica something or other, I didn't see a common name for it in my book, so I'll no doubt never remember the scientific name. I love the color of the blooms on it, and the shape of the leaves.



I also traded in my dead nectarine tree for a chuparosa, which will have red blooms next spring. There were two in the pot, so one went in my raised planter, the other into a pot on the back porch. I also got another bird of paradise, which will probably end up in the front yard, filling the void of my potato bush, which bought the farm back in the earlier part of August.

I also managed to get two 5 gallon roses for the price of a 2 gallon, because they were mislabeled at the store. I have a vague idea of where they're going, and since my five dollar rose vine is still alive, there is hope that I'm figuring out how to care for them here. We'll see, famous last words.