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Coffee Cups Caterpillar Crapper

| Flower Roberts

This is NOT how I intended this to turn out.

I have been very pleased with the new placement of Colocasia escuelenta/ Coffee cups/ West Indian Kale near the small fish pond.

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I intended to write a post about moving plants until you and the plant are both happy.

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Well, now there is a third party involved.

The oak tree above is full of munching little caterpillars.

If you look up, you see naked limbs.

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If you look down, you see feces.  Now the water in the cups has the color of coffee. Yuck!

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So thus the name of the post, in honor of Thomas Crapper of Chelsea. The owner of an early lavatory manufacturer in London.

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My OCD self keeps flushing the leaves with water.  No pun intended.

FLOW

 

Matchmaker, Matchmaker

| Flower Roberts

Matchmaker, Matchmaker

make me some seeds

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dust from my kind

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you do the deed.

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Matchmaker, Matchmaker

fly through the blooms

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and make me a perfect match.

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For pistil make it some pollen

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For stamen we’ll need something with wings

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Bee, well you bring the pollen

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and I’ll give you nectar for every fling.

Matchmaker, Matchmaker

make me some seeds

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dust from my kind

you do the deed

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Day after day I sit here all alone

find some pollen to fert. my ov’.

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FLOWER on the Roof

Lessons from a Butterfly

| Flower Roberts

I have been watching this one for days.

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I have been wondering how it could possibly fly with that tattered wing.

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It has been feeding on the butterfly bush along with all the perfect butterflies.

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I watched it fly this morning.

No bobbing, swooping or gliding like the normal butterfly flight.

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It was rapidly beating its wings, no meandering.

This one was all business about staying up and going somewhere.

Thank you sister. You are today’s inspiration.

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FLOWER can fly again, too.

Crab Spider Cafe’

| Flower Roberts

What a lovely spot to wait for lunch!

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This Crab Spider needs no web.  She is waiting for her food to be delivered.

She patiently sits inside this Hoya bloom

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for an unsuspecting moth to stop by for a snack.

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Then the moth becomes a meal.

Seems like the moth should notice the carcass dangling below.

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Sneaky spider!

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FLOWER

If I Had Wings

| Flower Roberts

If I had wings, I would have two sets.

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They would be shiny, but sturdy.

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The veins would be silver.  The film between would be clear as glass.

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I would be able to fly up, down, sideways, backwards and also hover.

My wings would work in tandem and independently, so I could do tricks in the sky.

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I would fly fast and fly far until I found a lovely garden full of flowers.

Then I would land on something pointy and pose for pictures.

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I would smile with my chitinous teeth

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and look at the camera with my 30,000 lenses.

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FLOWER dreams of being a dragon fly.

Bugs and Bunnies

| Flower Roberts

I am surrounded by cuteness.

Most people think bunnies are cute,

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Charlotte and Barley. My New Zealand/Lop rabbits.

but I think bugs are also cute.

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Baby Mantis on Eucomis

I think it is precious that something so tiny is busy doing its job in the garden.

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The bunnies, however, do not seem the least bit concerned

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with doing anything productive.

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I guess when you are that cute, you don’t need to concern yourself with a purpose.

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I guess their cuteness is their purpose.

I wish I were that cute!

FLOWER/Bunny Stalker

My Little Aloha

| Flower Roberts

I love Pineapple Lilies/Eucomis.

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If you don’t have enough space for these beauties,

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try a little Aloha lily instead.

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They are perfectly happy in a pot.

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Keep them watered with a weak fertilizer.

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I love their little pink “pineapples.”

FLOWER

Art on Every Leaf

| Flower Roberts

I love all Elephant Ears/ Colocasias.

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I have many varieties.

 

My favorite is Mojito.

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Every leaf is a different mosaic of blacks and greens.

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No two leaves are alike.

 

 

Even the tiny leaves have beautiful patterns.

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They thrive in shade or partial sun. They love water.

So lovely. So easy.

Mix it up with a Mojito.

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FLOWER