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I shot this picture tonight just before heading to bed :)

A single branch from our mock orange bush used as table decoration for dinner w. company.
The flowers opened up during the last two rainy days, while I was not looking

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...and this is the whole mock orange bush the next morning in the rain:

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Canna from seed whoohoo

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Originally Posted by sunfish (Post 197406)

Canna from seed whoohoo

Pretty Good color

It ain’t blooming….

…and it is not even an “Other plant” to qualify for this thread, but is was a visitor to my garden and as
pretty as any flower in it. (Phew, that was hard to admit. :))

It did have the good grace, to stick around until I had retrieved my camera and and then it sat
through the photo session, before it flew off into the wide, cloudy yonder.

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I received from a friend 6 seeds (fully one half of her own) of a New Zealand Castor Bean. Due to a
scew-up of Canada Post they arrived fairly late in the season and I could not be sure, that there
would be enough time for some of the seeds on the new plants to fully mature. Accordingly I
planted only two of them, keeping the rest for next year

In order to maximize the survival chance for at least one of them, I separated them, after they
started developing secondary leaves, by planting one outside in the sunlight and the other I left
on the window sill. The latter is developing faster and is the one shown on the below pictures.
Presumably the nights are still a bit too cool out there.

This photo shows the plant as it is now.

This picture details a curious phenomenon, which I had never observed before. On the petiole of
each leaf is a tiny knob, on top of which forms a tiny water bubble. That bubble is less then 1 mm
in diameter though shown here hugely magnified. If I plot it up by touching it with my finger, it
reappears within an hour or two.

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Okay, the ID for the butterfly in my post below is in.

My wife sent on the photo to a friend in Holland and she came back with the identification,
unasked for, but much appreciated. Thus is the power of the internet :)

It is a 'Tiger Swallowtail' butterfly, Papilio Rutulus the 'State Insect of Virginia'

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