microb's blog: Things are looking up

After that last blog about three weeks ago we had at least two more weeks of mostly grey skies and rain.
During the past week I have finally restarted the fencing project. A bit muddy but I have two lengths of fencing stretched and attached to posts. All the other fencing is in place but I am short about 10 posts. Wont dwell on the fencing project too much. Its just hard core forest wrestling.
The Lilies I purchased from Walmart are blooming, some are almost black and some are white. Pics to follow. Amorphophallus are waking up. A couple have bloomed with many showing new growth.
Peruvian Fuschias are growing like crazy and producing seed pods which I am harvesting and giving to the friend that gave them to me so he can do some seed swaps for more rare plants.
Not much activity with the bamboos yet. The leaves are flushing out which indicates energy going into the new canes that should appear in the next few weeks.
The running bamboo has not started to cause me stress yet but I'm expecting it to start soon.
Lots of frogs and frog spawn on the ponds.
I was contacted by my friend who is having her garden completely relandscaped to say there were some bamboo roots available if I was interested. Of course I was. Problem is she did not tell me that they were excavated by a backhoe and the root balls were too big to lift. So had to go back with a chainsaw and pick ax and break them up. Ended up with six good size mature plants that should do well later this years. Also discarded where lots of Red Ti (Cordaline) and some dendrobium orchids.
There is no doubt I really need this new 1/2 acre of garden that I am fencing.
Amaryllis are starting to bloom. Had a nice red one in doors for about a week and there are more bloom heads starting to appear.
The Epiphyllums (orchid cactus) are showing plenty of buds regardless of my neglect.
Not a very inspiring blog but things are getting behind while I get the forest fenced in.
Stay-at-home rule has not affected us at all. We stayed at home anyway after we retired. Shopping not a pleasant experience but my wife prefers to do that on her own. Most stores are only letting one person in per cart. I still go out to take garbage to the transfer station, do banking and buy animal feed. Not much plant exchange going on.
So far we do not have road blocks to check whether we are on a legitimate errand (some islands do) and on our island we have only 23 cases of the virus.
Hawaii has cut itself off from the outside world. We were getting 30,000 visitors a day and now its down to about 150. Anyone arriving has to quarantine for 14 days in their hotel room. What a vacation.
Hopefully the next report will be more inspiring with some real garden activity.
Stay safe everyone.

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