Granada has finished off it's first flush with a cluster of large
blooms that takes my breath away every time I walk by. When I bought
it last July, my mother didn't think it would live. Now it's stealing
the show from the amaryllis.

Pics:
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Blue Girl has also come into bloom. This poor plant was a "rescue"
from Home Depot. It would have been a poster child for shutting down
the bagged rose trade - too much wax, virtually no roots, one cane
severed by the string holding it in place, etc, etc. I figured she
was already a ghost when I bought her, so I nicknamed her "Moaning
Myrtle".

I'm stunned she's still alive at all, never mind throwing out blooms.
I know she doesn't have the roots for it, so I'm cutting her bloom and
pruning off her other two buds later today. It seems a pity, but
she's been such a fighter that I want to make sure she lives long
enough to develop a good root system.