"I'm ready now. Where is everybody?" The Ox Tongue (Gasteria liliputana) missed Garden Blogger's Bloom Day by a little over a week. But it is finally dressed and ready to party.
Thick, stout speckled leaves erupt from a cluster and are quite nice all by themselves.
But for the first time in my garden, the Ox Tongue decided that conditions were right for it to add its red & green blooms to the show.
As Paul from Handlebar Gardens commented on my Bloom Day Tardies post: It was just being fashionably late.
I know how you feel about those fashionably late party attenders...My spider lily just bloomed. I was spying yours and thinking "what gives?" then, there it shows, 3 days later - fashionably late! I especially love the first shot with the shadow of the bloom - lovely!
ReplyDeleteWhat an intriguing little flower...
ReplyDeleteCat: I have several planted, but only one bloom thus far. Sure hope the others follow.
ReplyDeleteKatina: It really is fun; looks almost exactly like most of my Aloe blooms.
I love those unusual blooms. I wish I had more shade in my yard. I have to cram all my favorites in two little spaces. Is that a pond I see in the background?
ReplyDeleteI love the color on the Ox Tongue. It looks a salmon color. I am always on the lookout for more shade loving plants--the shade is growing by leaps and bounds every year.
ReplyDeleteAmy: Yep - that's my shady pond tucked back in there. Ain't we a pair: you want more shade and I want more sun (we gardeners are so funny)!
ReplyDeleteMorning: That's an apt description of the red shade: salmon. It does well in dappled sunlight on my deck, but has to be protected from our freezes.
Too bad it doesn't bloom at Christmas, that red and green is perfect.
ReplyDeleteBob: It certainly does have nice holiday colors.
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