Coronavirus situation

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Hilary

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Re: Coronavirus situation
« Reply #735 on: January 12, 2023, 10:02:05 AM »
January flowers on the balcony

A pink Madagascar Periwinkle flower
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Hilary

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Re: Coronavirus situation
« Reply #736 on: January 13, 2023, 06:33:46 AM »
January flowers on the balcony

Maurandya barclayana 


This flower opened yesterday morning 
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Hilary

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Re: Coronavirus situation
« Reply #737 on: January 14, 2023, 06:56:44 AM »
January flowers on the balcony
‘The early bird catches the worm’
However, I wasn't early enough.
During the summer someone had emptied a pot of Tradescantia onto the earth below the trees in the backyard of the block of flats. However, just before Christmas I noticed that there were large fat juicy bulbs exposed in the mound of earth together with the Tradescantia.
Having decided that the Tradescantia would look good in the trough at the entrance to the block and the bulbs, which looked as if they might be daffodils, would enhance our balcony.
When I eventually went down to deal with this situation, I found the Tradescantia and all but one of the bulbs had already been saved.
This is the remaining bulb which turned out to be Narcissus tazetta. The other bulbs had not yet flowered
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Hilary

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Re: Coronavirus situation
« Reply #738 on: January 15, 2023, 07:29:22 AM »
January flowers on the balcony

Kalanchoe Blossfeldiana starting to bloom
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Hilary

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Re: Coronavirus situation
« Reply #739 on: January 16, 2023, 07:13:55 AM »
Butterfly on the balcony, in January

Vanessa atalanta L., Red Admiral
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Hilary

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Re: Coronavirus situation
« Reply #740 on: January 17, 2023, 07:18:08 AM »
January flowers on the balcony

Crassula muscosa, Rattail crassula

I have been searching through this plant for days now trying to find the tiny flowers. I should have used a magnifying glass.

The plant always produces a very strong perfume when the flowers are in bloom so I knew there would be some flowers somewhere.

Trying to describe the smell I looked for inspiration on the Internet and found
‘musky sweet smell’, ‘pungent acrid smell’ and ‘strongly scented ‘
I am going with the strongly scented
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Hilary

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Re: Coronavirus situation
« Reply #741 on: January 26, 2023, 09:25:32 AM »
A posy in January

Look what a friend gave me this week.
A posy of flowers from her garden

Marigolds, Narcissus, flowers from a succulent plant, a spray of unopened Montbretia and pretty yellow and green leaves.

At last, I tried to identify the leaves. Could they be from a Euonymus japonicus plant?

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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Hilary

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Re: Coronavirus situation
« Reply #742 on: February 03, 2023, 09:38:25 AM »
Orchid
The latest orchid in the house.
It has been in residence since September and is still going strong
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Hilary

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Re: Coronavirus situation
« Reply #743 on: February 04, 2023, 07:23:22 AM »
Orchid
In the eye doctor's waiting room last October
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Hilary

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Re: Coronavirus situation
« Reply #744 on: February 07, 2023, 07:01:22 AM »
Flowers in Pots in May

Several of my neighbours have created small gardens outside their front doors with plants in pots.
 Most of these gardens are filled with leafy green plants but one was a burst of colour last May.
Enjoy
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Hilary

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Re: Coronavirus situation
« Reply #745 on: February 08, 2023, 09:02:35 AM »
Flowers in Pots in May
Pink snapdragons
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Hilary

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Re: Coronavirus situation
« Reply #746 on: February 09, 2023, 08:22:45 AM »
Flowers in Pots in May
Red Geraniums
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Hilary

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Re: Coronavirus situation
« Reply #747 on: February 10, 2023, 08:45:56 AM »
Flowers in Pots in May
White Geranium
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Hilary

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Re: Coronavirus situation
« Reply #748 on: February 11, 2023, 07:18:34 AM »
Flowers in Pots in May
Dark pink and maroon Pelargoniums
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Hilary

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Re: Coronavirus situation
« Reply #749 on: February 15, 2023, 07:09:32 AM »
Flowers in Pots in May

Purple snapdragons
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care