leatherback
The Treedeemer
A few weeks ago I had the chance to join @Clicio to a bonsai show in Sao Paulo. On a cool spring day, we went to the botanical garden of Sao Paulo, and strolled through a show. My shirt was quickly soaked, because spring weather is 32c / 90F warm, no wind, high humidity. In any case, I saw exotic tropicals such as jabuticaba:
But what caught my attention even more were some of the raw stock. Of course, raintrees are from Brazil. However, I did not expect to see many for sale. After all, in Europe I have NEVER seen one grown by anyone. They must be rare, right? WRONG. Every seller had a few of them, at insanely affordable prices. Needles to say.. I could not hep myself and needed to get one.
I was not in Brazil for fun, so the tree had to do some travelling. Here it is looking out over the copacabana. I told it, it was not allowed to go to the beach!
After quarantine & repotting I modified a hanging lantern into a small greenhouse enclosure. This is the plant today:
But what caught my attention even more were some of the raw stock. Of course, raintrees are from Brazil. However, I did not expect to see many for sale. After all, in Europe I have NEVER seen one grown by anyone. They must be rare, right? WRONG. Every seller had a few of them, at insanely affordable prices. Needles to say.. I could not hep myself and needed to get one.
I was not in Brazil for fun, so the tree had to do some travelling. Here it is looking out over the copacabana. I told it, it was not allowed to go to the beach!
After quarantine & repotting I modified a hanging lantern into a small greenhouse enclosure. This is the plant today:
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