Amaryllis update

[lblanchard]

The last seedpod opened today. When I came up to my office the seeds were on the verge of spilling onto the sill. So I've harvested them all. This weekend I will make up instructions and send them along to the people who've asked for them. They'll probably get 10-15 seeds apiece, enough to take up a bit of space if they germinate well.

Also: we hacked the top off the curly willow last night. It looked puny and there is wonderful bushy growth coming out where we hacked off the lesser trunk a couple weeks ago.

Also also -- a last plant rescue is coming home to roost. It is a lilac that I bought as a 6" baby, raised to a 3' plant, then relocated at a friend's in 2005. She has had a professional landscape architect come in and the pink nonfragrant lilac doesn't fit with the concept. It's 6' tall now. I guess I'll pot it up and leave it out front, surrounded by rescue irises and daffodils.

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[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Happy May Day to you!

I thought about you yesterday as I set out my four o'clock hedge...I so admire your gardening skills and wish I knew more about what I am doing.

I have lots of coleus (the one you thought might be an "Alabama" made it nicely through the winter in my kitchen window and is now back by the shed) that I mis-planted and now must move, since I underestimated the sunlight and they are getting burned a bit. That's my goal for this week--a shady new coleus bed.

(A local church had its annual plant sale, which features only diggings from parishioners' own gardens, and how I wish you could have been here! I bought bagsful of English bluebells, some still blooming, which all came from a single bulb brought back by a local Englishwoman when she visited relatives overseas years ago.)

My sister's amaryllis has just finished blooming.