Full Bloom
The house tulips reached full bloom! I think I got this one ~2.5 years ago from the grocery store when it was a standard 7-flower fare. There was a while last year when it looked a bit sad and seemed like it might be dying, but it instead just branched out and doubled it's bloom. It's really impressive what plants can do with just sunlight and water.
Full bloom:
The bloom ordering was quite interesting. The flowers bloomed starting with the ones closest to the root, and the two branches alternated in who gets the next bloom. It would be the top branch, then bottom branch, top branch, bottom branch, etc.. Each flower took roughly two days to bloom, and it was fun to watch the plant go through that blooming pattern all the way through.
There were a bit of apprehension as well the entire time – fourteen bulbs seemed like a lot, did the plant bite off more than it could chew? But in the end the orchid handled it flawlessly. That's some impressive planning right there.
In terms of the past month, I think this plant was probably the thing that inspired the most joy overall in the past month. Definitely looking into plants more if this was anything like the average experience.
An in-progress night bloom:
(I need to clean my lens...)
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