Roses

Adenium obesum

Here is what blooms every year without care, totally forgotten, rarely watered and not re-potted for many years.




I grew this adenium from a seed, it is about 6 years old. It spends summers outside in full sun, grows leaves and branches, gets water from the rains and blooms. When cold days come - I take it inside, where it usually looses most of the leaves and does nothing until spring.



I think it is the easiest houseplant to grow.

Pictures from the park

These were taken yesterday evening. There was no sun.
Pretty pink/purple wild flowers:



Lighthouse on the Ottawa river:



Geese in flight:

More tulips

In the middle of the field with all white tulips there was suddenly one orange. I think squirrels digged up a bulb and moved it to the new location. Looks kind of neat:



Dark peony style tulip almost ready to open:



I used macro lens for all the previous pictures. Now, next couple shots were made with telephoto lens:

Tulips

It is tulips time in Ottawa. Lots of pictures. Some of them are past their prime time, but still are pretty.

Lovely combination of blue and orange:



Couple of orange ones:



Dark and curly. Picture is weird, but cool:



Field of pinkish tulips, too much sun:



Couple of whitish:



Field of purple:



Black and white field:



Orange field:



More to come....

Tulips season in Ottawa

It is just starting, so there is not much of variety yet, just the early ones. Next weekend should be more. Traditional red:



Yellow fluffy ones remind me the peony:



Dark red with frilled edges are just starting to open, there are more buds than actual blooms: