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March 12 Letdown
Mar. 12th, 2012 09:04 amThere's a long day stretching ahead of me with no trips to the Convention Center. Oh, I could go over and watch the tear-down, but that's mostly a bunch of sweaty guys moving tons of mulch, pavers, and construction debris and cursing mightily as they load 25' palms into trucks to go to greenhouses etc. It's pretty sad.
I scored a pineapple plant (no idea how to care for it, but I'll figure it out), two sprays of dendrobium, one treated with ammonium sulfate to turn it improbable colors, and a sort of rusty-colored anthurium. Oh, and a piece of wedding cake from this happy couple:
Bill and Kris were married on the Show floor Wednesday night, and the reality TV guy "The Cake Boss" provided the cake. There was a sheet cake for the Wednesday night reception, but the real cake remained on display until the Show closed, when Kris cut it for some of their friends (including Roy and me). She had forgotten to get forks, though, and the cake was replete with chocolate mousse filling, so it was messy. But good. Much more flowery goodness will be posted after I do some real work.
Meanwhile, on the windowsills: both seedpods on 'papilio' are swelling, although they've been known to grow and grow and then abort, or mature but produce only chaff. Downstairs neither of my cross-pollination experiments is clearly successful (this was 'Gervase' x 'Apple Blossom' and vice versa). Perhaps that's just as well, because I'm out of windowsill space. Meanwhile, one late bloomer from the class of 2006, one of the ones I was going to discard, is showing promise of being the pick of the litter. Just goes to show...
All my test herbs have done well, so I may try potting some of them along and growing them out as my backyard herbs for the season. Swiss chard did well, too, but I had it in such a wee pot that it died of thirst during the Flower Show.
Roy is now infected with Flower Show Fever and will be working next year's Show.
I scored a pineapple plant (no idea how to care for it, but I'll figure it out), two sprays of dendrobium, one treated with ammonium sulfate to turn it improbable colors, and a sort of rusty-colored anthurium. Oh, and a piece of wedding cake from this happy couple:
Bill and Kris were married on the Show floor Wednesday night, and the reality TV guy "The Cake Boss" provided the cake. There was a sheet cake for the Wednesday night reception, but the real cake remained on display until the Show closed, when Kris cut it for some of their friends (including Roy and me). She had forgotten to get forks, though, and the cake was replete with chocolate mousse filling, so it was messy. But good. Much more flowery goodness will be posted after I do some real work.
Meanwhile, on the windowsills: both seedpods on 'papilio' are swelling, although they've been known to grow and grow and then abort, or mature but produce only chaff. Downstairs neither of my cross-pollination experiments is clearly successful (this was 'Gervase' x 'Apple Blossom' and vice versa). Perhaps that's just as well, because I'm out of windowsill space. Meanwhile, one late bloomer from the class of 2006, one of the ones I was going to discard, is showing promise of being the pick of the litter. Just goes to show...
All my test herbs have done well, so I may try potting some of them along and growing them out as my backyard herbs for the season. Swiss chard did well, too, but I had it in such a wee pot that it died of thirst during the Flower Show.
Roy is now infected with Flower Show Fever and will be working next year's Show.
