Borya Constricta Churchill - Life on the Rock

Lovely little flowers; nice series Steve.

Thank you Jaap a true part of the environment thats for sure.

This is a hopeful story as long as the rains arrive. Wishing you see it all continue

you think its 100% never coming back then it rains and then the miracle shows it starts to go green.

très belle végétation,

thank you it is on the unusual side.

Une belle rareté endémique à bien soigner

it is thats for sure I am glad I brought some home to look after. taught me a lot.

Amazing how some plants are able to shut down and wait for the rain to come

gives you an idea of what it looks like in full summer hybination, never thinking it will ever change.

It's going wild! Great images, Steve.

It certainly has had a very long growth stage this year with our extremely wet winter. not a plant seen by very many at all.

Incredible what plants are able to do...

this one certainly opens your eye's many thanks.

Beautifully captured! Happy World Photography Day!

Thank you a most unusual plant, good idea to use this day for photography and remember.

This is fascinating, Steve. I have so many questions and thoughts!

1) The top photo: It is like a little forest to me. With each tree having its own bright sun. Wonderful perspective and lighting here.

2) What a great connection you've made from the plant to our lives. Your statement of hope is perfect. I need to hear and read things like that. I crave beauty in visuals and in thought. Thank you for sharing that.

3) I love the idea of winter bringing life (we often think the opposite here in Oregon, that summer brings life and winter dormancy - but we usually get rain year round).

4) I'm curious - if this is part of your bonsai collection, does it live outdoors? For some reason I think of bonsai plants living indoors.

5) You mention how you get to see flowers most Australians never get to see. I sense a feeling of delight coming from you when you say that. What is it that feels special about that to you? Is it your ability to keep these plants alive, the fact that you have something unique, or?

6) You world is wonderful. I've enjoyed learning something about the plant and you - thanks so much for sharing this for our special photography day!

[Feel free to respond here, or ignore me and respond to the prompts in this group discussion - or respond to both! www.ipernity.com/group/worldphotographyday/discuss/196908 ]

Laura
these are fascinating plants you only see out in the bush nothing in the city at all but this group I have and very few people see mine other than family. these plants live on the huge Granite rocks just as this group is doing. they are so small most people would not even notice them at all or have any idea of how they grow. I ran into them as I go to the rocks to take my Milky Way Bows and night photos.



I was setting up a shot and sat on the ground and as you can see they are all needle sharp. Bonsai's are not indoor plant but !00% out door plants they get the sun, rain and seasons that is the best way to grow them.



yes I do bring them inside to enjoy and decorate the house for a few days but they live out there days outside. these set live only on the bonsai stand in winter the "summer" well away from any water at all but what falls from the clouds.

If you start from the bottom picture in the comment you see what they look like at the end of summer. next photo up the orange state they have just been wet for the first time and there is enough to bring them back to life. that photo is a shot out in the wild on the rock. next photo the group 500mm x 300mm and 200mm high. the whole group live in only about 40mm - 60mm of soil. first rains for the year they get put back on the bonsai stand and get watered like the rest of the plants by sprinklers and rain. the top main photo shows just how much they have grown in this very wet winter.

once the rains stop the plants will be taken off the stand and put back on the airconditioning unit and receive only any incidental rains. every year they have flowered and enjoy the flowers as small as they are for a short time. Part of my collection and part of my life.

hope you get a chance to read this any more if I have missed out please do ask. Steve

great to know you find those details as you are heading out to view the majesty of the stars! and an insight into you a bit that you willingly get on the ground to get a photo. I join you in that often.

your devotion to the plants is wonderful. and your photos are wonderful showing the cycle of life of this plant. and as a metaphor, nice to remember we can return from a dry period to a place of plenty!

thank you for responding so carefully to me.

Fascinating information and lovely images. Thanks for sharing. :)

Enjoy The Little Things - Please Keep Wearing Your Marks

Your welcome I am happy to share the info. wear your mask get you jab...

Always have the mask and thankfully we have had our jabs! :)

Superbe avec ces mini gouttes !