Pride and prejudice.

It's been raining for several days now. Plants react differently to rain than they do to plain old hose water. The slow hydration provided by dispersed rhythmic drips of rain see to coax the most growth from the plants. [8pm-- serious winds and rain now and lightning, there will undoubtedly be a few pot's turned over]

Tiny sprouts are appearing on the tips of the pruned branches on the Croton. As I remember, as a child, if you broke off a piece of a starfish's leg, it would grow back but WIKI tells me it actually takes months or years. So much for my memory. Well, a pruned (woody) branch takes several weeks. A short enough time to wonder at the magic of regeneration, and in fairly short order, a bushier, more shapely plant.

Solanum Macranthum-- giant potato tree earns its name. 

Celebrating Gay Pride here in the US. Here are some of my picks from the 20th;   Frederico Garcia-Llorca, James Purdy, Benjamin Britten, Vita Sackville-West, Freddie Mercury, Elizabeth Bishop, blah, blah, blah. Western culture would be a dry husk without gay creative ingenuity.

 It's alive folks (I should say, when this pic was taken,  since deceased.)--  Leigh Bowery--beyond genius.
Happy Gay Pride Day