Fish, flower, tree

It's our first day back from the holiday, and we did some jobs around the house and garden to catch up after our week away. So I took the photo at home too.

Goldfish, orchids and a weeping fig

In our conservatory we have a pond with goldfish in it, an orchid on the window ledge is in flower and we have a potted weeping fig standing on the floor.

It struck me that the grouping would make a good photo and two fish obliged by swimming into the field of view at just the right moment.

The orchid is a Phalaenopsis, a slow growing plant with rather dull leaves and large aerial roots that has amazing flowers a couple of times each year. Like most orchids it's easy to grow and the flowers last for many weeks.

The fish are common red goldfish. At least, they were sold as red goldfish but I think one is actually something else. It is larger, faster growing, and has changed from red when it was young to mostly silver now.

The weeping fig grows in warmer climates than ours, in places like the Canary Islands it forms medium size trees but in the UK it is an indoor pot plant. Ours is a silver variegated form, 'Starlight'.

It seems to me that these three juxtaposed in the photo have an oriental feel to them. The picture makes me think of Japan or China or Thailand.

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