This post will have three photographs from 2026 and one from July 2021. The plants have all had their own posts and have continued to grow and change.
From left to right:
The yellow calendula bud is from seed originally from flowers in a 2021 post. It grew in a pot plant and free from frost has grown quickly. I planted the other small plants out last week.
The Amerillis in bud is the one from Christmas when I painted its red blooms while not feeling well.
The wax plant is growing so well but still no wax flowers. I will always remember the lady in Greece who gave it to me.
Then there is the magenta of the lower leaf of a tradescantia. Its leaf detail of silver-coloured stripes on the outer edges makes one look more than once. It is purple for new growth and green for older. There is not much green on this plant. I have taken off a lot of old growth. Our second photograph continues to contain plants from past posts but all here now.
From left to right:
The trunk covered in sacking is central with two money plants on the floor near it and the Aloe Vera with a hen and chicken cactus both on ‘the trunk’. How can I write ‘the trunk’ without saying more?
The trunk , a black metal one that is rather rusty now, belonged to my father when he was an 18 – year-old and left for college. It came with us to the UK when I married Roy. I think we had two containers shipped to the UK, this trunk and a tall round sturdy bin. All we owned.
To the side of this well loved trunk are the spider plants. How they have grown and now fill the space with green white green, and white green white leaves, this variety is called chlorophytum comosum. The one started as a spiderette, so small and insignificant that it can only be that time has done its work. There are plants too, but they will be for another time.
And last of all those Calendulas in a glass in our kitchen on 11 July 2021.
It is good to give thanks and say:
‘ You, are Lord above; You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, and You preserve them all; and the many, many beyond counting of heaven, worship You.’
Nehemiah wrote this at some time during the first half of the period of the Persian Empire, 539BC-331BC.
And a thought from Isaac Newton:
‘ All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‘Lord God.’
Take care,
Sandy 🙂
Ps
‘If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.’
Rainer Maria Rilker.