Fall
Although it's going to be 90° today, the nights and mornings are so wonderfully cool! It's officially hot days/cold nights- my favorite. It's also Banksia appreciation month. *I made that up. The new growth on Banksia blechnifolia, sigh. Infatuated. The tiny cone is peeking out behind last year's fuzzy grandpa. This banksia prionotes, acorn banksia has been in the slope for 2 years and never produced flower spikes. With the fence removed and more sun exposure, I'd say it's responding with a "hell yeah". This larger banksia prionotes has produced 9 cones this year! It's quite insane to me that a plant can produce an ice cream cone-like explosion. Over the weekend, I was lucky to have a visit from Sophia and Ivan! Ivan and I have been meaning to repot several things in the "greenhouse". Most of these plants live in Livermore, but belong to Ivan. Ariocarpus love heat, they've grown much faster here th...
