Friday, October 12, 2018

African Spear: Still A Good Name / Lanza Africana: Todavía Un Buen Nombre

La versión español está después de la foto de mi herida.

I DECIDED TO finally trim the dead flower stems from our African Spear (sanseveria cylindrica). I was waiting for the sticky flower sap to dry completely. I thought it had. It had not. But that was a minor problem.

I was reminded (yet again) that they don't call it a "spear" for nothing. Last time(s), it was my head; click here.) This time it was my arm.

In addition I was reminded that, when backing up for a photo, it's a good idea to check one's rear.



DECIDÍ FINALMENTE RECORTAR los tallos de flores muertas de nuestra lanza africana (sansevieria cilíndrica). Estaba esperando que la savia de la flor pegajosa se secara completamente. Pensé que lo había hecho. No se había. Pero eso fue un problem menor.

Me recordaron (una vez más) que no lo llaman una "lanza" por nada. La última vez (últimas veces), fue mi cabeza; haz clic aquí.) Esta vez fue mi brazo.

Además me recordaron que, cuando se mueve hacía atraz para hacer una foto, es una buena idea revisar la parte posterior.

THE THRIVING AFRICAN SPEAR NOW.
LA PRÓSPERA LANZA AFRICANA AHORA.
WHAT THE BLOOMS LOOKED LIKED (FROM FEBRUARY TO JUNE).
CÓMO SE VEN LAS FLORES (DE FEBRERO A JUNIO).
THE DANGEROUS REAR GUARD (EUPHORBIA SPIRALIS). LUCKY FOR ME I WAS WEARING PANTS.
LA RETAGUARDIA PELIGROSA (EUPHORBIA EN ESPIRAL). POR SUERTE PARA MÍ, LLEVABA PANTALONES.
IT'S GROWN MORE DANGEROUS SINCE THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN END OF MAY!
¡SE HA VUELTO MÁS PELIGROSA YA QUE ESTA FOTO FUE HECHA AL FINAL DE MAYO!

32 comments:

  1. No images of wounds to the rear guards? I limit myself to killing one house plant a year, I am definitely not a gardner.

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    1. Travel,
      Jerry bought his mother a large plant for her living room. She killed it and he bought her a new one every year until she felt so guilty she begged him to stop.

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  2. somebody's a hairy bear there...and it's not just moose & dudo! your plants gotcha coming and going!

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    1. Anne Marie,
      I used to say I could braid the hair on my legs. I couldn’t stand it!

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  3. You're a danger to yourself, sir.

    Oh, and ....Ow!

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    1. Bob,
      And I don’t even share half of what I do to myself.

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  4. I'll bet Moose and Dudo stay away from those plants!

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    1. Sillygirl,
      They actually use them sometimes to scratch themselves!

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  5. Have you ever thought of growing something less dangerous, like a Venus Flytrap or poison ivy? Talk about your own little shop of horrors! Geraniums, pansies and daisies, oh my!

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    1. Deedles,
      Around me, nothing is less dangerous. Even those gentle flowers can have wicked sap and pollen! Besides, they don’t thrive like the spiny things. So I’ll just sacrifice my own safety.

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  6. I hope you keep a lot of band-aids at hand.

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    1. Kirk,
      Currently four boxes in a variety of shapes and sizes!

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    1. Adam,
      It’s very cool and gets fascinating flowers, too.

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  8. Mitchell, what is with you and these cuts and sracps????? Lovely plant!

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    1. Hey, Maddie, don't you think Lanza Africana would be a wonderful name for a hot Latino drag queen? You're the expert on this kind of thing.

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    2. Maddie,
      I have always been a danger to myself..also, delicate flower that I am, I wound easily.

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    3. Deedles,
      I don’t know about Maddie, but I love it. I’ll take it!

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    4. Mitchell, it's yours! I can totally envision you in a Carmen Miranda get-up, with a huge, fruity headpiece! Whoops, you just impaled yourself on the pineapple spikes and put an eye out with the maracas! Stay away from drag, honey! Use the name as a pseudonym when writing a novel in Spanish.

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    5. Deedles,
      On second thought, it would inappropriate. I have to go back too many generations for any African roots!

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    6. Sure, blame it on your lack of roots! It's the pineapple spikes that have you running, isn't it? Africa, cradle of life, we are all connected. Kumbaya and all that.

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    7. Deedles,
      Speaking of which... sort of. The stage musical The Lion King is coming to Málaga. Here it’s called El Rey Leon of course. I asked Pedro what hakuna matata was in Spanish. It’s hakuna matata! But said more beautifully with a Spanish accent. What a surprise. OK, not a surprise but ...

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    8. Everything sounds better with a Spanish accent! I've missed seeing that musical the two (I think) times it has come to the Bay area. I'll have to put fort a greater effort next time.

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  9. Your plants are amazingly robust. How often do they need a blood sacrifice?

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    1. Wilma,
      I don’t know how often they NEED one, but I don’t give them enough time to worry about it.

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  10. Ouch.
    This is no surprise to me who lives in Arizona where literally everything in the yard has nasty prickers and no touching of nothing.

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    1. Spo,
      It’s the no touching of nothing that I always forget.

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  11. Yours is a little shop of horrors.

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  12. Ow ow ow!! You have some lethal horticulture going on there!! But beautiful.

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    1. Knatolee,
      The yuccas... you could poke your eye out with that!

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