New Growth

I guess it's spring. I never really feel like we have a spring - it's already summer hot, but still the dry season. But something springlike I've noticed is all the buds budding on my growing number of plants.

My friend Nina gave me this Philodendron Burl Marx, which she has growing in heaps around her house (her lawn is beautifully landscaped). She grew it all from a cutting she got at Fairchild Tropical Garden when she worked there. She gave me a lot of pieces which I planted in the ground. Basically all of it turned yellow and dried up, but now it's sprouting all over...you can also see my weeds sprouting nearby!

Our starfruit tree which we got free from the county at the same time we got the jackfruit tree has started BLOOMING! I noticed it has a huge amount of new growth and then found these tiny flowers unfolding. I don't know if starfruit is next or not.

The jackfruit tree is also sprouting new leaves like crazy. That's the one that grew 8 feet last year and I cut back by 5 feet so it didn't look crazy.

Baby bromeliads! One, two! Love 'em!

This is the Mimosa sprout I posted a picture of before - it's the one that my dad gave me as a seed in Arkansas.

And some re-growth on my poinciana tree.

That's right! My poinciana tree! I have wanted one of these for a long time, they are beautiful and shady and brilliantly red! This one had a little branch on it when I got it, but it lost it while we were at Disney (even though we had a friend watering it). You might be wondering where I got this tree...well I found it!

Hmm, I guess that sounds suspicious. I found it growing on public land in a place where it had no chance of survival.

Ok, I found it growing on a playground UNDERNEATH the playground equipment. It was right under a step and had grown right up to the bottom of the step. I saw it a couple of times before I decided to rescue it. It turned out to have really deep roots and actually there were two, but the other one doesn't seem to be re-growing anything. I think it is pretty curious that it was growing there in the first place.