Monday, April 19, 2010

Beauty in small things

Today is the start of a new week, and I have left the unhappy experiences of where I was working behind me. I have this week and next to get my house and property sorted, and make arrangements for my trip. In the meantime, I am enjoying the beauty of the houseplants on my sunny kitchen windowsill:
I have a large plant of this, but it's not in the sun so it isn't flowering as well as these cuttings. It's such a pleasure to have flowers around where I work. This is also a cutting, just a small plant that's flowering for the first time. I have a soft spot for Zygocactus which are also known as Orchid Cactus because of their lovely intricate flowers. See the little bit under the pollen (that's a technical term, people)- it's an amzingly bright fuchsia colour.

Isn't nature wonderful?

6 comments:

Janet said...

wow, that pink flower is amazing! Where are you going on your trip?

Nora and James McDowell said...

Very lovely. What are the violet flowers?

Shirley Goodwin said...

I'm off to spend a month in the UK (mainly Ireland), a month in France and a month in Italy.

Shirley Goodwin said...

Nora, I'm not sure what this plant is - I don't have any name for it.

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