Today is Easter Sunday.  Since I don't do church, I figured I'd blog instead!  For a bit, anyway...  We're going down to my nephew's home later today for our family get-together.  It'll be nice to see the grand-niece and nephews.  I haven't seen Henry for some time - he was born last July 4th, so I guess that makes him almost 9 months old now!  Will is almost 18 months, and Ella is going on 7 this summer.  Here's my sister's whole entourage...

 This was before Henry - here he is right after he was born, in Daddy's arms...

I'll have to get a new pic of him!  I guess most of the pics I have are from right after he was born.  Anyway, they're all very close and since I didn't have any kids of my own (and therefore no grandkids), it's kind of nice to have them to visit.  Mom really enjoys it, too!

So I spent a lot of time in the GH getting plants cleaned up and giving them a once-over for new growth, bugs, etc.  My damn cagayanensis had mealies on it.  I must have spend a good half hour or so cleaning it up.  It's not that it had a lot of them, but there was dead stuff in there and it's such a tangled mess of leaves, it took a lot to untangle it so that I could inspect every single leaf.  But I got it all cleaned up and reattached to the hoop and now I just have to keep a close eye on it for a few weeks.  I found a couple more mealies close by (that's the trouble with having them on one...)  Otherwise, everything I pulled down looked pretty good.

I found verticillata budding up - just one so far...

It's one of my favorites for fragrance.  It seems to be staying in good shape (thankfully).  I thought I was losing it a couple springs ago and took a bunch of cuttings.  I'm so glad it made a comeback...

The one I finally concluded must be sp. Ban Ngong Ngoy is blooming...

 Such nice contrast on this one!  The flowers remind me a lot of 'Red Buttons' and 'Bright One'.  I think it's fragrant at night - I didn't notice a fragrance when taking this pic, but the night before I walked past the GH and thought, "Hm, something is obviously blooming!"  

My biggest hairy kerrii seems to be budding up as well...

 I'll have to make it a point to check my other kerriis today.  Pubicalyx 'Philippean Black' is putting on new growth that's true to its name...

They say this is the same species as chimera.  

Well, I need to get my potatoes on to take down to Easter dinner.  More later!