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Flower Show and windowsills
Mar. 24th, 2012 12:23 pmI have finally finished editing my Flower Show photos and uploading to Flickr. In what is surely an abundance of overkill, I have included 761 photos. This does not include the 300-plus photos from setup week, nor does it include Roy's photos, which still remain to be edited.
I like it as a slide show, to be accompanied by lovely music and a glass of wine, and perhaps a bit of needlework. It runs about an hour:
And I finished just in time, too -- the Macy's Flower Show opens tomorrow. Not as big a deal, but I do want to get some shots. The theme this year is Brazil, and the plant list looks suspiciously like Hawaii leftovers.
With no photo editing to do today, I'm turning my attention to seed starting and seedling potting on. First step is soaking all my containers in bleach. Once they've been sterilized and dried, I'll start some marigold seeds...pot up some basil, marjoram, parsley, and thyme seedlings in individual market pack cells...and finally cull the Class of 2011 and pot on the 15-20 robust of the 50-plus seedlings.
Today is the much-feared Day 28 for the 'papilio' x 'emerald' seed pod. If a pod is going to abort, it generally does it by Day 28, and mine looks fine. Next hurdle, some time in the next 10 days, is seeing if I got real seed or just chaff. Other developing pods (pollinated March 7 and March 19) still look promising.
Earlier today I opened the plastic bag containing the canna roots I dug up last fall and left in the unheated Anderson House. They're putting out roots and shoots. The sansevieria I left out there has apparently given up the ghost, although the volunteer spider plant that was in the pot oddly enough has not. I think I'll cut back the sansevieria foliage, water the pot and see what happens. One leaf still has some life in it, so I may take a cutting -- I've never tried that, but there's a first time for everything.
I like it as a slide show, to be accompanied by lovely music and a glass of wine, and perhaps a bit of needlework. It runs about an hour:
And I finished just in time, too -- the Macy's Flower Show opens tomorrow. Not as big a deal, but I do want to get some shots. The theme this year is Brazil, and the plant list looks suspiciously like Hawaii leftovers.
With no photo editing to do today, I'm turning my attention to seed starting and seedling potting on. First step is soaking all my containers in bleach. Once they've been sterilized and dried, I'll start some marigold seeds...pot up some basil, marjoram, parsley, and thyme seedlings in individual market pack cells...and finally cull the Class of 2011 and pot on the 15-20 robust of the 50-plus seedlings.
Today is the much-feared Day 28 for the 'papilio' x 'emerald' seed pod. If a pod is going to abort, it generally does it by Day 28, and mine looks fine. Next hurdle, some time in the next 10 days, is seeing if I got real seed or just chaff. Other developing pods (pollinated March 7 and March 19) still look promising.
Earlier today I opened the plastic bag containing the canna roots I dug up last fall and left in the unheated Anderson House. They're putting out roots and shoots. The sansevieria I left out there has apparently given up the ghost, although the volunteer spider plant that was in the pot oddly enough has not. I think I'll cut back the sansevieria foliage, water the pot and see what happens. One leaf still has some life in it, so I may take a cutting -- I've never tried that, but there's a first time for everything.
