Caladium ‘Thai Beauty’

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Now that I have a new appreciation for caladium….

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Blushing

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This is the flower of the peacock plant (Calathea makoyana).

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Winter Jasmine Bonsai

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As seen in the Garden of Weedlessness greenhouse at the Montreal Botanical Gardens yesterday afternoon.

The Latin is Jasminum nudiflorum. It reminds me of forsythia.

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Charming Little Hearts

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Here’s another adorable succulent from my tour of Erika’s apartment, Conophytum blandum. Don’t they look like lots of little hearts?

On first glance the Latin blandum (blandus) seems wrong — these plants aren’t bland! To be sure I looked the word up in Gardener’s Latin and it turns out that blandus translates to pleasing or charming. This I think we can agree on.

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Conophytum friedrichiae

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