I've got another round of blooms opening tonight, plus the two bowls already on the table. But it's getting close to the end of this round of flowers, then it'll be a month or so before I get another round of flowers.
I just spent the last few hours building a shelf system for my baby blood orange trees. They're about three years old, and are growing in containers under lights. Six little trees, from three seeds that I stuck in some dirt. I've had them under the lights for almost a full year now, and they seem very happy with the set up. It's going to be a minimum of another five years before I can even hope maybe for some fruit from any of them.
I've got lots of other plants, too. Several orchids, one a cattleya that should produce really frilly bright red blooms. It'll probably be another year or two before it does, though. My other orchids are phalenopsis, two of them white ones that are almost ten years old and monstrously huge (about to climb right out of the 12 inch pots they're in now). Their flowers are almost the size of my entire hand. Miniature roses, dark red and lightly scented. They seem content to have two or three blooms each pretty much all the time. A ponytail palm that I have so far succeeded in keeping out of the cat's reach, for over five years. I have a pineapple that I started from a pineapple top. I didn't realize how big it actually had gotten until I repotted it. Went from a six inch pot to a fifteen inch pot, and **** me if it doesn't actually fit that pot. It's two or three feet wide and just a bit taller than it is wide. Mister Kitteh seems to enjoy chewing on one of the leaves. They're not toxic for cats, and he isn't damaging the plant beyond that one leaf so I let him. Our other cat, Bittle, likes eating rose leaves. I have the plants up where she can't reach them (don't want her trying to chew on thorns), but give her the occasional leaf that I trim.
