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Leucospermum Bloom Day March 2016
Leucospermum 'Yellow Bird' is the star of the month.
I planted it in mid-2014. I didn't blog about it when I bought it for fear it would die. It hasn't. It's grown like a weed.
It doesn't look like a weed!
Just one non-Leucospermum, this Leucadendron 'Pom Pom', unfortunately the only bloom on the plant. It's not getting enough water, probably. I bought two of this plant and the other died, so this single beauty is very special:
Happy Garden Blogger's Bloom Day. The 15th of the month is dedicated to the flowers of that month. Celebrate by seeing what's blooming all over thanks to May Dreams.
Wonderful flowering Leucospermum, I should like to have such a weed...... The Leucadendron Pom Pom has only one flower but what a beauty, cherish it!
ReplyDeleteIf only all weeds looked as good, we'd have less (no?) work in the garden.
DeleteI have to climb a wall and maneuver around several shrubs to get to the Leucadendron, and it is worth it.
Dear Hoover, your Leucospermum looks beautiful,a real stand-out plant in the garden, love the yellow colour.
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Thank you, happy I get to share it on the blog for all to enjoy!
DeleteSuch a beauty! Interesting that the blooms look different from a distance to me -- sort of a honeycomb look. Up close it's different though!
ReplyDeleteThey are just starting to open up, really. So there are different "looks" to them right now. Yellow pine cone becomes pin cushion will become a brown pine cone eventually.
DeleteWow, your leucospermum is a stunner. You're so lucky it's thriving in your garden. Please post more photos once the flowers have opened all the way.
ReplyDeleteVery lucky--I know it. I wasn't sure it was going to grow at all. I will post more photos--hopefully people don't get tired of them.
DeleteNot me!! I have one (ONE!) bud on my lone surviving Leucospermum (a cultivar named 'Goldie'). With any luck it will turn into a flower soon.
DeleteOne bud is a start! There's always next spring...
DeleteI am so SO envious! You've got me thinking of trying a Leucospermum again. My last one was pulled from the "not ready for sale yet" section of a nursery and I think I erred in pulling it out of the pot and planting it out prematurely. A neighbor a few doors down has a beautiful yellow specimen like yours and another nearby has a house-sized orange one so I can't blame the climate. I know watering (or rather not watering) is the biggest issue - what's your regime there?
ReplyDeleteIt has its own sprinkler. Instructions said regular water the first two years then reduce, so since it seems fairly established now I can move the sprinkler a bit towards the new one. Drainage on the slope is very quick.
DeleteSimply gorgeous! I would be giddy to have such a thing growing in my garden.
ReplyDeleteI confess I have been going out to stare at it a couple of times a day. I can't believe how beautiful it is.
DeleteSuch a cool plant and flower. I'm not sure I have ever seen such perfect flowers on a Leucospermum. And that color! Happy Bloom Day!
ReplyDeleteHappy Bloom Day, Jane!
DeleteIf I had this one, I'd stare at it several times a day, too. And you should print and frame one of those photographs!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Glad to hear it isn't just me.
DeleteThose last two photos have upped my pulse rate to a dangerous degree.
ReplyDeleteSteady, steady! Deep breaths...
DeleteHaha!
DeleteOh wow! Absolutely stunning... such beautiful shapes!
ReplyDeleteThey are like hot air balloons rising skyward, or those lanterns people let go into the night.
Delete'Yellow Bird' is other worldly.
ReplyDeleteI'm really enjoying it! Hard to believe how easy it was to grow.
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