John&Jacq~s Garden

April 2011: Easter Joy in our tropical garden!

What marvels The Lord worked for us!
Indeed we were glad. (Psalm 126:3)

Simply unbelievable! Not only was our potted Proiphys amboinensis (Cardwell Lily) blooming for the second time around in two years but once again resurrected during the Easter season!

Its previous ‘grand opening’ in our garden was also during Easter in April 2009. What marvels indeed, we praise and thank God for this great Easter garden joy that we’re experiencing!

Truth be told, we had wanted to dispose the whole pot in mid April as the plants were in such a sorry state. We just didn’t know how to treat them as all the leaves were riddled with some sort of infection, leaf rust or brown rust I think after googling for insights! But before we could carry out our intention, a greenish white stub emerged unexpectedly a week later.

We were excited…. could it be a flowering stalk as it looked peculiar, unlike an emerging leaf?
Thus, mission to destroy was aborted and I just trimmed most the diseased leaves pronto lest it consume the flower bud as well! Also, I simply left untouched 3 tinier leaves that were very slightly tainted to continue assisting the plants’ growth through photosynthesis.

Sometimes being lazy helps, huh! Had I been prompt in axing the plants, we would have lost the chance of seeing this blooming miracle once more. Cardwell Lily rarely flowers and we feel blessed indeed to be able to enjoy its beauty again.

Nature really had its last laugh! Whatever, we’re extremely delighted that it dictated our course of action… we couldn’t be any happier otherwise and the plants are happy as well, rewarding us big time with smiling faces! Besides the 38-cm tall flowering scape, topped with gorgeous flowers that are gracefully blooming and opening forth, one flower at a time each day, three new leaves that are disease-free have unfurled too! Oooh, we’re so joyful, looks like the plants have regained their vigour! The remaining disease-infected leaves have been snipped off today and we hope that’s good riddance to bad rubbish finally!

As we look forward to continue marveling the flowering process (from past experience the whole blooming period may last about a month or so… how fabulous!), I just can’t help myself but reflect on the inexhaustible love and mercy of The Almighty who never gives up transforming us into His likeness. Like our diseased plants that appeared beyond hope in our eyes but resurrected in an amazing way, nobody is beyond redemption! Our Heavenly Father is ever so loving and merciful… just waiting with open arms for us prodigal sons and daughters to return home to Him. (Luke 15:11-32)

THANK YOU, O LORD JESUS
BY YOUR HOLY CROSS, YOU HAVE REDEEMED THE WORLD!

~~~HAVE A HAPPY AND BLESSED EASTER SEASON!~~~
~~~MAY GOD BLESS US ALL ALWAYS!~~~

Update: October 10 2011
Just to share Cardwell Lily’s blossoming progress in May 2011. Enjoy!

Sharing too our success at germinating its seed as illustrated in the life-cycle collage below:

Last edit: June 8, 2016

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