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Apr. 20th, 2014 03:50 pmI'm down to the last three Nopalxochia blooms, and they're all fully open or almost so. Another three days will mean the end of them.
The last scape of Hippeastrum, class of 2006, will have three blooms. Two of them are starting to open; the third is well behind. So there's a good chance the laggard will still be blooming in May.
Another of my ric rac cactus cuttings has sent out a new leaf, which means that it has rooted. That makes three of the six. The one that sent out aerial roots has made two plants, making a total of four plants. I have no idea what I will do with this many plants -- give some away as PHS plant dividends, I suppose.
I wish I could say the same about the angel-wing-type begonia I got as a "cutting" from the Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades at the Flower Show. I call it a "cutting," because it's actually a piece that got knocked off one of their plants. It's happily putting out leaves but no roots. Perhaps I should pull it out of the jar of water, dip it in Rootone, and put in a pot of seed starting mix. Or maybe not.
My hippeastrum Class of 2013 'son of supermarket' looked crowded
There are fungus gnats in all the plants in the basement. I just mixed up a gallon of mort aux fungus gnat (Bacillus thuringiensis va. israelensis). Three consecutive Sundays of drenching the plants should clear the infestation before I set the plants outside.
The pansies are very happy and the wisteria and Virginia creeper are both leafing out, ready to duke it out for wall space another year. I am also seeing the first Virginia creeper seedlings. Vigilance will be called for!
This week I started asclepias (the grow-as-annual kind), gazania, and marigolds. The gazania, sowed five days ago, are starting to sprout already. This is a cheerful-making thing, and I think I may try sowing a few directly into some of the larger pots out front, or even the adopted tree pit.
I am hoping that by the time the last hippeastrum has bloomed there will be enough going on in the garden that I'll be ready to shift my focus out back. The slow spring has been helpful that way -- indoor bloom all the way from the Flower Show to the warm weather.
The last scape of Hippeastrum, class of 2006, will have three blooms. Two of them are starting to open; the third is well behind. So there's a good chance the laggard will still be blooming in May.
Another of my ric rac cactus cuttings has sent out a new leaf, which means that it has rooted. That makes three of the six. The one that sent out aerial roots has made two plants, making a total of four plants. I have no idea what I will do with this many plants -- give some away as PHS plant dividends, I suppose.
I wish I could say the same about the angel-wing-type begonia I got as a "cutting" from the Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades at the Flower Show. I call it a "cutting," because it's actually a piece that got knocked off one of their plants. It's happily putting out leaves but no roots. Perhaps I should pull it out of the jar of water, dip it in Rootone, and put in a pot of seed starting mix. Or maybe not.
My hippeastrum Class of 2013 'son of supermarket' looked crowded
There are fungus gnats in all the plants in the basement. I just mixed up a gallon of mort aux fungus gnat (Bacillus thuringiensis va. israelensis). Three consecutive Sundays of drenching the plants should clear the infestation before I set the plants outside.
The pansies are very happy and the wisteria and Virginia creeper are both leafing out, ready to duke it out for wall space another year. I am also seeing the first Virginia creeper seedlings. Vigilance will be called for!
This week I started asclepias (the grow-as-annual kind), gazania, and marigolds. The gazania, sowed five days ago, are starting to sprout already. This is a cheerful-making thing, and I think I may try sowing a few directly into some of the larger pots out front, or even the adopted tree pit.
I am hoping that by the time the last hippeastrum has bloomed there will be enough going on in the garden that I'll be ready to shift my focus out back. The slow spring has been helpful that way -- indoor bloom all the way from the Flower Show to the warm weather.
