Mission Bathtub 2023 - Azolla Mania

[Geoffrey Rea]

Can’t wait for the next update @zozo 😎

Always a joy following your Mission Bathtub series. Keep up the great work.

 

[zozo]

Can’t wait for the next update @zozo 😎

Always a joy following your Mission Bathtub series. Keep up the great work.

Thank you... Lately, I was a tad too late with the lily flowers to take pictures... These flowers only live 3 to 4 days...

But I see there is a new one about to open up in the tub... Maybe tomorrow, then I'll snap some shots...

 

[zozo]

The Lily Vanilly...

And the water plantain...

Some panorama lens experiments, but i guess still need some practise with this... The bog Fern taking a run

They said 3 years ago it was a dwarf / mini Thypa 🤔 so that would be a 6-foot dwarf...

Potentilla all from the little tank... Quite nice actually...

Some spontaneously appearing Poppy

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Gratiola officinalis... Commonly known as (have) MercyHerb in my native language...

Here i tried to snapshot the Willow with the Aphids and the Ants, but it was too windy and got the Water mint and the Cricket instead... Didn't even know it was there when i took the picture... Can you see him/it?

👍

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

And the water plantain...

Nice, that one is Baldellia ranunculoides.

cheers Darrel

 

[zozo]

Hi all,

Nice, that one is Baldellia ranunculoides.

cheers Darrel

I guess you are correct, tho i think to remember it was sold to me as the Alisma graminium... But the flower is indeed different.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Water mint and the Cricket instead... Didn't even know it was there when i took the picture... Can you see him/it?

"She" and a Speckled Bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima). I disturbed one the other day when I was watering some Lavender cuttings.
<"Speckled Bush-Cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima)">.

cheers Darrel

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Alisma graminium.

That is a rare one in the UK. Baldellia is <"also rare"> (in fact rare in Europe), and much nicer, so I'd look on it as a result. I've only ever seen Baldellia in the Burren, particularly at the <"Carran turlough">.

cheers Darrel

 

[zozo]

"She" and a Speckled Bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima).

Ok, I see now that she is too large to be him... Thanks!...

Baldellia is <"also rare"> (in fact rare in Europe)

I was mistaken, I bought it indeed as a Baldellia, the nursery i got it from never grew an Alisma graminium.

Also still have the Butomus umbellatus growing next to it...

But somehow that one always starts well in the spring, growing fast, but during the summer gets a setback and till yet never flowered. But keeps on surviving.
No idea why or what it could be because all the other plants in the tub are to greedy and nicking all the goodies. Anyway, it's still in there with some green, so maybe some other time...