Sugar Glider Gardening Tip

Hi, Green Thumb Glider here with your Sugar Glider Gardening Tip!

To grow beautiful Gladiolus flowers that attract butterflies, hummingbirds and um, Sugar Gliders, you’ll need a spot with full sun and good drainage. They’ll hide unsightly walls! They grow from 6 to 9 feet. Plant seedlings 10 inches apart. That’s it!

Hmmm, [grasps blossom with tiny hand] This flower is progressing nicely! [Snorts pollen]

Ren and flower 1, Ren and flower 2, Ren and flower 3, originally uploaded by TheOneAndOnlyOz.

36 comments … read them below or add one

  1. Erebella says:

    Such a pretty thing, and what neat little fingers.

  2. LadyIslay says:

    I’m pretty sure that’s a gladiolus, not a hollyhock. They grow from corms (like a bulb).

  3. biscuithead says:

    Fabulous pics!

  4. binky-mama says:

    Peenk pointy noisicle!!!

    I must kees eet!!! I tell you I MUST!

  5. sabrina says:

    very adorable!!!!!!

  6. Patricia says:

    It’s adorable, I love those big eyes.

  7. Johanna says:

    Pa….ra….ly…z..e..d

    by

    cute….

    [clunk]

  8. misscrisp says:

    Gahhh! I am dyingk from Teh Qte™!! (and yes, that appears to be a gladiolus)

  9. skip says:

    Hahaha – that one wiry little hair curling up above its head in the first pic!

  10. anner says:

    These are some of the cutest and most beautiful pictures ever on CO. That’s right, I’m using superlatives!The weeskers, the nosicle, the BEF, and the teeny, bony feengers are all conspiring to keel me!

  11. k says:

    in the first picture, it looks like the sugar glider is wearing a pink dress.

    i approve heartily of sugar gliders dressed in pink flower-dresses (and i concur: that’s a glad! though I had hollyhocks this year in the exact same shade as the sugar glider’s flower-dress)

  12. eikoleigh says:

    beautiful pictures. Lovely, bright colors, nice composition.

  13. Wombats says:

    Where oh where can I buy Sugar Glider seeds? :)

  14. Meredith says:

    Ohh, look at his lovely leetle feengars! I moste know who does his nails!

  15. Michelle S says:

    oh my!

    So precious!

  16. Katrina says:

    What great pictures!! I would be terribly afraid that my dear leetel Sugar Glider would not come back inside the house. Ah, zee magique of zee flowers-ueuh?!

  17. foxy says:

    Um, is no one going to mention the typo in the caption?
    At least I presume it’s a typo.

  18. snorglepup says:

    That stray hair on his head…
    Cat fur from the dryer!

  19. chanpon says:

    It’s killing me that it looks like he fits inside the blossom!

  20. Theo says:

    Foxy — you mean it’s sposeta be a Sugan Gliden Garden Tip?

    (and all the girlies say I’m pretty fly for a glide guy)

  21. warrior rabbit says:

    Hovertext has a typo, too, foxy. (Saw instead of say.)

  22. foxy says:

    Teho – that’s exactly what I meant. It’s funny how you read my mind like that.

  23. Theo says:

    Read your mind, huh. With the Offspring bit & all. Mm-hmm.

    If I *can* do that, y’all better be *very* afraid.

  24. bev says:

    What are the cute rules here?

    When your eyes are almost as big as your entire head…

    When your paws look like little hands…

    When your NOSE matches a FLOWER!?!?!

    Ack! Gotta fetch my daughter. She’s a huge sugar glider fan. She’ll know.

  25. Gail (the first one) says:

    Is the caption supposed to be “Sugar Glider GARTER Tip”? I couldn’t even tell it was wearing stockings!!

  26. candace says:

    That’s GOT to be on the next calendar!

  27. west says:

    LOVE the one little wayward hair in the first two pics. Though, it does look a little like a cat hair gone astray.

  28. Sadly, this Sugar Glider was later taken to snorf-hab.

  29. Fegli says:

    Waaah!!! Why are these little guys so ridiculously cute?!

  30. Tallgeekgal says:

    One time I asked someone if he knew what sugar gliders were, and he said, “I assume they’re sort of like Jell-o shooters”. Theriously. I didn’t go out with him again.

  31. Sass says:

    Aren’t gladiolus(es… ii?) poisonous?

  32. Raemie L. says:

    Pic 1: Eep, the BEF!
    Pic 2: The wavy patagium* (fold of skin on side of body from front paw to back paw) matches the flower’s ruffled edge. Gah, the whole composition’s good!
    Pic 3: pollen-snorfer stares into the heart of the flower…

    * http://www.sugarglider.com/gliderpedia/index.asp?patagium

  33. Melissa says:

    awwwww, this is soooooo adorable! me & my daughter love looking at your stuff!

  34. amber says:

    How pretty!

  35. Robert says:

    Thank you to everyone! Even I get lucky taking pics once in awhile.

  36. BethAnn says:

    CALENDAR! CALENDAR! CALENDAR! ABSOLUTELY MUST be on the calendar!!!!!

    (I am not biased at all by the choice of a glider *hides website behind her back*