Adeniums, Baobabs, Flying Geese and Flowers But No Deepity

(Or, How To Care for Adeniums in Bloom)

Baobab, photo by micheleluigi, Toliara II, Madagascar

I thought baobab trees were something Antoine de Saint-Exupéry made up. I was about six years old at the time and also thought Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a made-up name, embedded as it was in the confusing disconnect between the written and spoken versions of some alien language. Speaking very little English and absolutely no French, "Antoine" looked obviously like "Ahn-Toy-neh" to me except that the grown-ups kept saying something like Ant Wohn, with phlegm thrown in for emphasis.