Today's flower picture...
Mar. 24th, 2010 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lblanchardI found an online forum for amaryllis/hippeastrum and learned that my Pathmark Rescue has a name -- Apple Blossom! I think that third flower will open some time today.
I'm hoping that the hippeastrum parade will last through early April. The nopalxochia parade shows every indication of doing so. Then there's the Easter cactus that belonged to my brother and that seems to have set a dozen blooms or so.
The back yard still looks pretty dismal but I see hope -- a little cleanup, a few pansies, and some mulch will make all the difference. Oh, and new leaves on things, too! After an afternoon spent cleaning up I'll be ready to take some pictures.
Ten impatiens seedlings have broken through the surface, many of them in the past 24 hours. If I get a dozen I'll have all I need.
The marjoram seedlings look great under grow-lights; both of my sage cuttings are growing lustily and I even think the real plant may have overwintered; I have a milk-jug planter ready to receive my soaked parsley seeds.
I have seven variegated basil cuttings -- four just rooting in, and three under grow lights. Plus one in the bottle with just the beginnings of a root.
A couple other things: at lunch we moved around a bunch of pots, including the huge one with the 10ft elm tree, in the backyard. (We burnt lunch in the process.) We also cleaned up some of the remaining grunge and laid trash bricks as impromptu borders around places we expect things to come up this spring and/or places we plan to plant. I have heaps of perennials to go in, I find -- the big clump of perennial sunflowers, about a dozen oenotherea, a similar number of rose campion, a couple of daylilies. And all the feverfew I can plant. Oh, and a pair of white columbines. I haven't seen hide nor hair of my rudbeckia yet, but I'm sure there's a seed around somewhere, just waiting to burst into life for me.
We had concrete chunks and rubble and tossed them into the abyss between and behind the broadleaved evergreens, topping it off with some spent potting soil. I think I'll be able to get pachysandra to root amid the mess and cover our sins nicely. If not....there's always ipomoea, at least for now.
The parsley seeds are now in the milk jug planter, and I separated all the seedling hippeastrum bulbs, which will have to be potted up tonight.
I'm hoping that the hippeastrum parade will last through early April. The nopalxochia parade shows every indication of doing so. Then there's the Easter cactus that belonged to my brother and that seems to have set a dozen blooms or so.
The back yard still looks pretty dismal but I see hope -- a little cleanup, a few pansies, and some mulch will make all the difference. Oh, and new leaves on things, too! After an afternoon spent cleaning up I'll be ready to take some pictures.
Ten impatiens seedlings have broken through the surface, many of them in the past 24 hours. If I get a dozen I'll have all I need.
The marjoram seedlings look great under grow-lights; both of my sage cuttings are growing lustily and I even think the real plant may have overwintered; I have a milk-jug planter ready to receive my soaked parsley seeds.
I have seven variegated basil cuttings -- four just rooting in, and three under grow lights. Plus one in the bottle with just the beginnings of a root.
A couple other things: at lunch we moved around a bunch of pots, including the huge one with the 10ft elm tree, in the backyard. (We burnt lunch in the process.) We also cleaned up some of the remaining grunge and laid trash bricks as impromptu borders around places we expect things to come up this spring and/or places we plan to plant. I have heaps of perennials to go in, I find -- the big clump of perennial sunflowers, about a dozen oenotherea, a similar number of rose campion, a couple of daylilies. And all the feverfew I can plant. Oh, and a pair of white columbines. I haven't seen hide nor hair of my rudbeckia yet, but I'm sure there's a seed around somewhere, just waiting to burst into life for me.
We had concrete chunks and rubble and tossed them into the abyss between and behind the broadleaved evergreens, topping it off with some spent potting soil. I think I'll be able to get pachysandra to root amid the mess and cover our sins nicely. If not....there's always ipomoea, at least for now.
The parsley seeds are now in the milk jug planter, and I separated all the seedling hippeastrum bulbs, which will have to be potted up tonight.
