Pavel's diary

Two sunny days and the large flower cup of M. grandiflora opens even more and attracts more and more bees and beetles.

No, I do not have magnolias only :-) When we returned back from a short vacation, our Liriodendron tulipifera was still hiding this beauty:


It is in approx. 2 meters so I had to use our ladder to get this photo!

I promised to wrote something about our holidays. Before we left our house, both M. grandiflora and M. sieboldii had flower buds, just ready to open. I was a bit sad that we are leaving them :-)

My sadness finished when we arrived to our hotel and I have had this tree just below our terrace at the hotel:


This tree had only one flower at the beginning of our vacation and I watched it very closely during all 10 days. On every breakfast, lunch or dinner, I had a chance to see nice images like this one:

Magnolia sieboldii one day later opened the only flower:




I have never seen a flower like this! So magic and so close. It is so exciting. Three days ago, I was still in the middle of Mediterranean Sea and it was waiting. Yay!

My Magnolia sieboldii was damaged by early May frosts, all leafs were frozen. Now it is back with nice foliage and now even with its first flower bud opening (thanks goes to Magnolia God that it waits for our return from vacation (I'll add one more Magnolia blog about the vacation soon):

Except from Magnolia sieboldii, there is yet another Magnolia in the flower bud phase.

Magnolia grandiflora 'Preacox' has three flower buds. It will bloom in the next weeks.





These weeks I spend more time on magnolias than on e.g. OpenOffice.org due to Oracle inactivity (the lack of proper communication from the is terrible).

Magnolia sieboldii's leaves died in the early May, because of very low temperatures (-5 degrees C here, USDA 6). New leaves are now slowly coming and even the first flower bud:




Let's see how the full flower will look like.

Stellata is opening more and more.

Several years ago I wrote a diary entry about few annoying features of Mac OS X. Let's check what has been changed since then.

Terminal: still the same. An hour to get it properly configured.

100 processes per user: gone.

New annoyancees: Spaces! Spaces is 10 years back in the past. You can't have more than 4 columns. I'm used to 6 8) You can't name workspaces. I'm used to name them 8)

But the most annoying is the default filesystem installed. It is case insensitive. You can't have file and File. Ugly. Most ugly. Unusable. Reinstall needed. OK, I'd reinstall anyway, but...

But what I like is the duality of the gcc. gcc 4.0 is producing 32bit and gcc 4.2.1 is producing 64bit binaries. The default one is 4.2.1. A lot of work to get OOo compiled though...

The spring is here. First magnolia started to open its buds.



It is Magnolia stellata Rosea.