Meanwhile, on the home front (Sep 9, 2021)
It's been hot—high 90s, a few times even above the century mark—and the air quality has been verging on unhealthy because of the Caldor Fire about 100 miles east of here. As a result, I haven't spent as much time in the garden as I would have liked. The plants, however, keep trucking on, heat and bad air and all, even cooking up a few surprises! As I chronicled in this post from June , I was given a bunch of Epiphyllum cuttings, which I stuck in hanging planters suspended from the chaste tree in the backyard. Epiphyllums bloom in the spring, but this one apparently didn't get the message or got its seasons mixed up: Red-flowering NOID Epiphyllum ↴ I was gifted this clump by Megan and Matti of Far Out Flora when they moved from Davis to Madison, Wisconsin earlier this summer. Megan didn't know what hybrid/cultivar it was, just that it has red flowers. And it does! Red-flowering NOID Epiphyllum ↴ Another flowering surprise came courtesy of a potted Agave stri...