Summer in New England

Southern plants

Floridian Flowers

Disney World was great, particularly the Animal Kingdom. I wish I could take photos of all the plants and flowers there. I managed to nab a few, but we were constantly moving so I couldn't stop to take pictures of them all.

Old n' New

Yeah so we got a new plant and we don't know what it is. Its leaves spread out like a fern, it's tall and has thick stalks. Suggestions, anyone? Anyone?

That corn plant was too stunted/immature to produce anything right, so it's gone now. So are the onions, though they did make cute flowers for awhile. Matt bought new bamboo. The smaller shoots he cut off from the rotting bamboo plant ended up withering away but one of the much more bigger shoots is still growing green and strong. It's even taller than the new ones he bought.

Small, shriveled and missing.

Yesterday I passed by a small batch of corn stalks with full grown corn on them. They were obviously healthy and full sized whereas mine was the size of half my hand. GUESS THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR TRYING TO PLANT A NON-MICROWAVABLE POPCORN FROM JOLLYTIME. My guess in the end was right, although I had hoped that it would grow actual corn. It seems only one of the stalks were pollinated while others did not develop past the actual core of the husk itself.

Only one managed to grow kernels to a respectable size (no fruit on the seeds) and I picked them off and cured them. Now my next experiment: Will they actually pop?! Muahahah!

In other news, I'm pretty glad I took a botany class. I try to apply my knowledge from it into everyday stuff. Like when Sara painted a MAMESHIBA face onto a lychee seed. She was disappointed that it was really hot and the seed shriveled up, but I explained it was just inhibition and that the seed can swell up again through osmosis. SEE ARE YOU PROUD OF ME SCHWARTZ? :33

~_____~ If I could redo the class, I would. Also PS; I have no pictures because the memory card for my camera is still missing.

Corn update!

I'll post the picture later, but the corn is finally starting to bloom fruit. One of them even has silk now! :D The others are just budding. THIS IS SO EXCITING AKFJKAHFASKFJ

Petition to stop building incinerators

I signed up. Apparently there are going to be 8 or 9 more to be built in/around Boston to burn materials that could be recycled instead. Building incinerators promote pollution.