Random in the Greenhouse

I'm trying to keep the greenhouse at a reasonable temperature until everything inside is ready for planting or a summer outside in part shade.

 Big plants like Epiphyllums are already summering outdoors. I try not to look at them except to water in hopes of discovering buds soon. I made pics but they're just a mass of huge leaves and stems. I repotted the two in small pots. Even cuttings get big and need a heavy pot to stay upright.

Miss Winnie's Easter Cactus finally commenced bloom.

My smaller, rooted Rhipsalidopsis have no buds yet.

Ike's Lemon Grass. He kept the tops chewed off during the winter.

It kept him from shredding things like Bromeliads. 

I planted out the culms I brought in to grow better roots, now these can go out.

 

Begonia bloom.

Between the Jungle Cacti and Begonias, there

would be plenty of color in the greenhouse

in winter if I planted nothing else.

 

I could let this Christmas Cactus fruit mature and plant the dustlike seeds....

I watched a video. The tiny seedlings were so precious and then he said 'years' to bloom.

 

White Begonia cuttings and a Bromeliad.

 

Daturas from seed, both white and Purple. They need to grow on a just a bit.

I am very fond of nightblooming plants. The shiny black stems on Purple

Daturas give them a really exotic appearance.

 

Another Amaryllis that I had given up seeing bloom again has put on a bud.

I didn't take a picture; we've looked at Amaryllis buds all winter.

Another Amaryllis planted in the ground outside is about to bloom, a red.

 

 

Ike and Julia and a Backup Plan

Ike the Cat followed me around the garden. I heard Mockingbirds scolding. I couldn't see Ike, but I saw Black eyed Susans waving. Ike was hiding while he chewed a bit of Lemon Grass. Cymbopogon is a fav of both the cat and dog. I pot up a clump for the greenhouse and they chew it all winter.

Lemon Grass is a fav of mine, too. I've had a hard time

taking to grasses. Cymbopogon makes a pretty bluish clump.

Julia Child is my fav Floribunda.

Another look at Julia

I moved two Mariesii Hydrangeas at the beginning of summer. What I thought was a shady spot got middday and early afternoon sun. Despite copious watering, they dried up and died. I had a backup plan. I've killed these before when I moved the first cuttings that had rooted so well when I stuck them in the ground. I took cuttings again. These have put on new growth. Now to make a plan for keeping them alive through the winter. When they reach blooming size, they have blue lacecap blossoms.

Mariesii in a previous year, cutting grown 

Flowers and text are from the garden of Nell Jean blogged on Dotty Plants Journal in hot, humid Southwest Georgia.