Garden update - orchids and butterflies
The lady slipper orchid is beginning to flower again! I have a few dichondra in a hanging basket, and like the way this is becoming the "hanging garden"! I never tire of these beautiful flowers, and the fact that they are growing in my garden fills me with such pleasure. The vine needs to be cut back so that it doesn't take over the entire garden. I want light to be able to get in, and it also strains the branches of the weeping tea tree it scrambles over. In other orchid news I cut back the plants around the back fence, letting in more light and neatening it up a bit more. Often when one does such a thing though it can still look a little messy for a while until new shoots start to fill in the bare areas. All my orchids need a bit of TLC, but they have survived the neglect pretty well. My phalanopsis has two flower spikes! yeah! They all got a good dunking in some seaweed solution. This little butterfly was happy on the pepper plant.