Anticipations with capital "A"s ...... !

The tiny pomegranate fruit

These few days  I feel very rewarded by my gardening  ventures  .... seeing the passion fruits and pomegranate (one flower converted to a small fruit...not sure if it will drop, but  there are more buds coming up.....), the miracle of the Sawtooth Coriander, the garlic vine blooming again unexpectedly, leucophyllum recovering .. etc, etc......,  all thanks to  the nice cool  weather ! 



Now  I have these capital 'A's  ....  First take a look at this photo.  Want to take a guess  ? 

 This is the Blood Lily (posted 21/11/2010) plant.  Remember I mentioned that this plant can be without leaves but with a bloom ?  When I first saw it  happended some years back, I thought this was so  unusual.   About a month or more back, I decided to relocate this plant to a container, as it did not seem to be doing well on the ground,  being shaded by the passion fruit vine.   For some reason  unknown, the leaves just  continue to wilt away.   I thought  perhaps it was getting too much water from the rain, so I moved the container under shelter, but exposed to sunlight. I was so worried this bulb plant will totally rot away!  So I kept  monitoring it just to make sure it was doing okay.  At first it puzzled me to see this strange thing appearing  where the bulb is.  It does not look like a new leaf coming up. Now that it is slightly bigger,  it  suddenly dawns on me that is is a bud coming  up !  I  hope I am not wrong - I hope I will get a bloom pretty soon to share.

Another anticipation is from the Kalanchoe plants.....they are  budding.  Take a look...
  

These kalanchoe plants are  succulents, thick leafy leaves . It loves a bit of shade, noticed the leaves gets bigger than compared to exposure  to direct sunlight.   It is a non fuss easy to care for plant.  I planted them on the ground as I think they make excellent ground covers.  I noticed they will rot away if watered with too much water.  When I see that happening I moved them to another spot where there is no water logged whenever I watered the plants. They grow back easily.  The flowers actually last for a couple of weeks or more. My kalanchoe plant had flowered once before, the blooms are red but single petal.  Very attractive and appealing.  However they are not prolific bloomers.  Around Chinese New Year, many vendors sell these plants at the market, all blooming prettily. I was always tempted to buy other colors as well, but just can't make up my mind which color to select....maybe the purple, but then the orange and yellow are just as nice....oh well  until I make up my mind I am sticking with these red ones that I have ....haha  !