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Comment by Joan Denoo on July 18, 2012 at 10:42am

Annie Thomas, Borneo! I tried to go there many years ago but Marcos was having wars or threats of wars, so travel there was restricted. Please tell me about it. There are so many aspects of Borneo that intrigue me, especially a tribe or tribes of matriarchal leadership. I really wanted to see how that worked for them. 

Comment by Lillie on July 17, 2012 at 8:41pm

I have never heard of this plant but it is certainly worth knowing.  Thanks for the introduction.

Comment by Annie Thomas on July 17, 2012 at 7:57pm

Sentient-

Your Bunga bakawali is amazing!  What a special treat.  Many years ago, I spent days traipsing through the forests of Borneo to see a rafflesia flower in bloom.  We saw one, but it was past its prime and beginning to rot.  It didn't matter to me though, I was just thrilled to see one!  I read up on your flower and it said it is very fragrant.  How would you describe the smell?

Comment by Joan Denoo on July 17, 2012 at 2:03pm

SB, I didn't know these garlic "scapes" are edible and have used the cloves the usual ways. Trying to find their name, I ran across many recipes. Young, tender, and enchanting, they make for whimsy in the garden and now I know to cook them, the stems, as well. Do you steam them? How are the scapes in braising? And does scape mean its name or its form? 

Comment by Sentient Biped on July 17, 2012 at 11:01am

Joan, those garlic scapes are beautiful.  We used them for cooking too.  Best when they are young and tender.

The bunga bakawali was a gift from a coworker.  She came from Hong Kong and regarded it as a Chinese cactus.  They grow easily from cuttings, but they do tend to get really large.

Comment by Joan Denoo on July 16, 2012 at 11:03pm

SB, my goodness what a treasures you have. Bunga Bakawali flower, I found this: 

BungaBakawali.com

&

https://www.facebook.com/279gardenclub

 

Comment by Joan Denoo on July 16, 2012 at 10:58pm

Tonya Wynn, thanks for Grannys Heirloom Seeds site. A very good article about growing garlic is there. I have garlic growing all over my  place, any little space that doesn't have a plant growing, I stick in a clove. The old Farmers Almanac said plant on the shortest day of the year and harvest on the longest. Our soil is frozen solid by Dec. so Oct. and Nov. work fine for me. I harvest after the longest day of year and don't harvest them all at once. I get too tired and my back hurts. The garlic don't seem to mind. At one time I had about a dozen varieties, but now I have mostly hard-necks. 

Garlic scapes is an excellent cooking garlic. This is not my photo. But I have these popping up all over the place.  

http://www.grannysheirloomseeds.com/growing-garlic

Comment by Sentient Biped on July 16, 2012 at 9:49pm

This year's Bunga Bakawali flower.  Last winter I really neglected the plant.  Probably didn't water it for 5 months.  It IS a cactus, but that's extreme.  Generic name Epiphyllum oxypetallum.   Bunga bakawali blooms once annually from midnight to 5 am.  I prefer the Malay name to the formal Linnean name, out of sheer obstinance on my part.  If I knew the Aztec name, I'd prefer that.

Comment by Sentient Biped on July 14, 2012 at 4:26pm

Tonya, 25cents is awesome!  Hope they are interesting varieties.  Will have to check it out.  At that price, the postage is more than the seeds!

Tigridia just bloomed.  This was from a package bought this spring.  I didn't know what to do with them so I planted them all over the place.  Supposedly it is just a one-day flower, but more buds take over.  The transience is part of the beauty.

Speaking of transience, the cactus is about to bloom.  These flowers bloom at mid night, and close by morning.  I neglected the plant all winter, no watering for months.  This spring it got severely pruned.  Next year I'll treat it nicer.

Just dug up the bulbs from Allium gigantium.  They finished blooming a few weeks ago.  I usually leave them in place, but they were getting crowded, and I have a new place to plant them.  These bulbs were huge.

Comment by Tonya Wynn on July 13, 2012 at 12:17pm

Just found a seed company that sells packets for 0.25 cents!!!! grannysheirloomseed.com  Haven't ordered anything from them yet. 

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