Beautiful pics! I've been amazed in the last few years of apartment living at what you can grow on a balcony. Still, I long for a yard too, or at least a community garden plot.
I could crawl inside that orchid and get lost. I know a thing or two about flora, but please tell me what photos 1 and 2 are. I want to say lily (1) and allium (2), but these are just guesses. Now that I am in a condo with a cat, I am restricted from growing many things. There are a few moth-eaten ebay aspidistras, a rope, spiders, and a svelte cylindrical sansevieria out of the cat's way in the kitchen.
Susan: The first picture is of a succulent bulb whose tags I've lost. I've had it for three years now, and each spring it send up a more spectacular show of blossoms, but the rest of the year, it just looks like fleshy grass. It lives on my west balcony. The second picture is a hoya lacunosa, one of several very happy hoyas that hang in my windows. I have cats too; however, they are pretty good about staying off the plants, so my house is full of chlorophyll.
In the meantime, my sunny windows and balconies serve up quite astonishing treats.
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S in I: Ah, a community garden plot . . . I dream of such a thing. Your blog rocks--welcome to mine!
Christina