蘭が色々 Various orchids

蘭が色々咲きました。blogサボっていたので，既に殆ど切り花状態・・・　^^;

Various orchid flowered.  Actually, most of them were cut and in the vases while I was lazy and not writing blog recently.

鉢に植わっていた時の写真はこれ

These are the pictures while they are still in their pots.

セロジネ

Coelogyne

数年前肥料で失敗して株の半分くらいが枯れてしまったが，なんとか元に戻ったよ

I damaged this one by misplacing fertilizer a few years ago.  But, it recored as it was before.

デンドロキラム
Dendrochilum
昨年は乾燥気味に育てすぎたのか，株の大半が死亡?　今年は植え方考えないといけない。
Probably I kept it too dry last year, and most of it are dead.  I have to think about that.

パフィオペディルム
Paphiopedilum
これだけは，順調に育っている。今年も一鉢お嫁に出した。一本の花茎から二花咲くのは珍しいと思うのだが?
Only this species has been growing very well.  I gave one pot to one of our neighbors.  By the way, I think this one that two flowers in one stem is rare...

マキシラリア

Maxillaria

これは未だ咲き始めたばかり

This just started to bloom.

マキシラリアも丈夫で，ちょっと困るくらいよく増える。

Maxillaria is so hardy, grows so much that I feel a little troubled.

センペル仔吹き? Sempervivum giving pups?

2014.3.29

暖かくなったと思ったら，センペルからなにか出てきた。

While enjoying spring sunny days, I found something coming out of sempervivums.

子供かな?　花かも知れない，なんて思ったりして。

Are these pups?  I wonder this could be flowers.

これは間違いなく子株。上のとは少し出方が違う。
This is a pup definitely.  This is different from the ones above.

春は突然に Spring has come suddenly.

2014.3.29

今週はいい陽気が続いた。

先週まで厚いコート着ていたのが嘘のようだ。

待ちかねたように色々な花が爆発的に咲き始めた。

季節の移ろいが押しつぶされたようで，本来段階的に咲く花達が一気に開く。

It continued warm days, this week.  I can not believe that I was wearing a heavy coat last week.  Various flowers burst into bloom as they have been patiently waiting.  The change of seasons looks compressed, and flowers that should bloom one by one bloom at the same time.

ツルニチニチソウ

Vinca Major

ヒメツルニチニチソウ
Vinca Minor

シデコブシ

Magnolia stellata

コブシ
Magnolia kobus

水仙
Narcissus

スミレ
Violet

桜も咲き始めたが写真がない
Cherry blossoms started, but have no picture this year.

多肉植え替え Succulent repotting

2013.2.23
寄せ植えを去年作った時考えが足りなかったようだ。
よく知らべてみたら，性質の違うものが混ざっている。
夏まではいいと思うが，夏を越すのは厳しい。
When I made several succulent arrangement, I have not considered enough.  Investigation later make me aware that ones with different characteristics are planted in the same places.
It will be fine until summer, but it will hard to survive through hot summer here.

昨日は暖かかったので植え替えることにした。
It was very warm yesterday, and I decided to repot them.

先ず，エケベリア，コチレドンとクラッスラが混在していた。コチレドンとエケベリアは性質が似ているからこれらだけ集めてみた。
First of all, some pots have mix of echeveria, cotyledon, and crassulla.  So, only cotyledon and echeveria are gathered in one pot since they have similar characteristics.

買ってきた鉢が大きすぎてスカスカだ・・・

But, the pot I bought were too large, and the arrangement looks empty.

仕方ないので今日小さいエケを２つ追加してまあなんとか格好になった。

Without nothing to do, I bought two echeveria, and added.  This is better.

クラッスラだけ集まってこうなった。クラッスラは春・夏に爆発的に育ち，特に花茎が延びて乱れるので３月になったら一旦外に植える積もりだ。
Gathering crassula only became this pot.  They will explode in spring and summer, and especially flower stem makes them wild.  In spring I will plant them outdoor.

 次にセネキオも夏型と冬型混在だったので，組み替えた。
これが，夏型セット。
Next, summer growing and winter growing senecio were mixed.  So, I rearranged.  This is summer set.

冬型のブルボーサは取り敢えずスタンドアロン。
Winter growing senecio_articulatus is stand alone for the time being.

愛染錦がハートカズラと植えられていたので，これも分離して，愛染錦は小人の祭りとセット。
Aeonium domesticum f. variegata was planted with chain of hearts.  They were separated, and domesticum is with aeonium_sedifolium.

ハートカズラは瑠璃晃と寄せ植え。

Chain of hears is now with euphorbia_susannae.

 

センペル紅葉 Semps turned red

2014.2.17

14日に降った雪のせいかもしれないが，センペルビブムの紅葉が進んでいる。

Maybe because of snowfall on 14th, my sempervivum turned red.

この鉢の物は，大分寒くなってから買ったので，買った時からかなり紅葉していた。しかし，これ程ではなかった。

These on this pot was bought after it was very cold, so they were somewhat red at that time.  But, not this much.

赤を通り越して紫だね
This is purple having past red.

これも。
This one, too.

これは，葉の端が赤くなってきていて，いい感じ。
These have tips turning red, and look nice.

これも端だけ。
This has similar color gradation.  

セダムとのコントラストがなかなかよろしい。
Nice contrast with yellow sedum.

これは小豆色です。
This is violet.

 百恵ちゃんも紫色かな。
Momoe is violet, too.

サボテンアレンジ Cactus arrangement

2014.2.1 

２月にしてはとんでもなく温かい日になった。暫くの間温めていたアレンジを作ることにした。この珪化木がうまく割れるかが一つの課題だったが，叩いたり，ひねったりしたらうまく割れた。

For February, it was really unusually warm.  I decided to make an arrangement that I had been considering about half a month.

One of the issues was whether I can crack this rock easily, but by hitting and twisting the rock successfully created some proper size of rocks.

植えるサボテンはこの銀手毬２鉢。

A cactus used was this Mammillaria vetula_ssp_gracilis that I had two pots. 

鉢から抜く時に，子供がポロポロ取れてしまう。まあ想定内のことだ。後で挿してみよう。

As I pulled off the cactus from the pot, some babies dropped off.  Well, that had been expected.  I planted them later in another pot.

出来上がりはこれだ。

Voila,  after an hour, this is the outcome.

サボテン Cacti

昨日の三貴フラワー参りの成果
Visit to Miki-flower resulted in these.
銀手毬は刺が痛くないのと，花が沢山咲きかけていたので買ってしまった。
Since I found Mammillaria vetula ssp.gracilis not stinging and having several flowers blooming, put it into a shopping basket.

翠冠玉は特に理由なく購入。
And, Lophophora diffusa, I bought with no particular reason.