Growing Cotton Plant & Other White Flowers In My Garden

One day, a friend brought me a plant that she has grown in a small pot for me.

This is the cotton plant that my friend gave me. 

When I received the plant, there were 3 green bolls.  I have not seen this plant before and I thought the green bolls were flower buds. From the internet, I found out that they are referred to as bolls and not buds or pods.

Then after about a week, the green bolls cracked open and revealed the white cotton inside. One by one, all 3 green pods cracked open and the white cotton exposed.

Cotton plants love full sun but it can be grown indoors too.

Cotton plants can easily grow from seeds.

I must remind myself not to over water this cotton plant.

According to my friend, cotton plants have flowers. I am looking forward to see the flowers.

From the internet:

Large yellow flowers will appear in 45 days from sowing. Flowers wither off and form bolls which crack open to form fluffy cotton in about 130-150 days from sowing.

Fluffy cotton harvest from 3 bolls from my plant.

Cotton separated from the dried bolls.

Dried bolls.

Seeds removed from the fluffy cotton.

Will be using some of these seeds to grow some cotton plants.

Fluffy cotton in plastic container on the left, seeds and dried bolls on the right.

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Other white flowers from my garden.

Tiny white flowers from the Spider plants.

Spider plants make good hanging plants.

This is the 2nd white orchid flower from this plant.

This white flowers can last for about 5 days.

Can you see the cute little face in the center of the flower?

Linking to Wordless Wednesday & My Corner of the World.

Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray.

Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers,

letting God know your concerns.

Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness,

everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down.

It's wonderful what happens

when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

(Philippians 4:6-7, The Message-MSG)