#bloom stalk

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Night, night, day

[succygirl]

Big ‘ol Agave and also it’s big ‘ol bloom stalk. At the Stanford Arizona cactus garden. 

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

So hard to get these buds in focus! A kalanchoe is about to bloom. January 2024.

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

My Venus flytrap is going to bloom!

Treehouse Gardens

[icanstoptomorrow]

Here's something fun that has neighbors dropping by periodically for visual updates: Aloe vanbalenii, pushing out her first bloom stalks ever. Four of them! I'll post some other pictures that demonstrate how she earned the name Twisted Sister.

Also, have a looksy at Brother Aloe 'Hercules' in the back. He's super jel because she won the contest "Who Can Bloom First."

I just climbed in there to see if he was working on a bouquet of flowers (which he's not), and it made me realize that he's taller than I am now by several inches! He's almost 6 feet tall! I can't wait until he starts multi-branching out and gets all "too cool for school."

P.S. I just measured Aloe vanbalenii and from tip to tip (if I uncurled them), she's about 6 feet wide. But girls don't like to win that contest. No one does really. No one.