Too nice to work...
Apr. 14th, 2010 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lblanchardBut I did, at least a little, and then went down to make a late breakfast. After breakfast I stood in my minuscule backyard, enjoying the blue sky and thinking it would be so nice to be able to hand out my sheets....
....except that my whole yard is 17 x 17, we've been feeding the sparrows for months, and my sheets would be covered with bird poop in about 20 seconds.
Another good reason to move!
On the other hand, there's a volunteer opp to work on a little public garden outside the Hort Soc headquarters tonight at 5:30. That's an easy bike ride and I'm sure if I turned up with my trowel land my entrenching tool they wouldn't turn me away.
I am down to my last two Nopalxochia blooms, and one of those is looking a little peaky. The other hasn't opened fully yet. The third 'exotica' scape looks as though it might open by the weekend -- that will have given that one plant a blooming period that spanned at least five weeks, maybe six. Second seedpod from 'gervase' is still hanging in there, but I'm resigned to the possibility of losing it. A couple seedlings from the impatiens sowing never got beyond poking their heads up, so I am resigned to having only eight or nine plants from that sowing. Thyme is doing very well and many of the seedlings have started to show their first minuscule real leaves. Downstairs the second of the Class of 2006 still has one flower defiantly hanging on, and the buds from the third and fourth blooming bulb are hinting at more color than I was expecting. Out back, the parsley seedlings are beginning to show some true leaves, and the volunteer corydalis seedlings can be numbered in the dozens, possibly the hundreds. I see some four o' clocks coming up, too, and I believe I may be seeing one solitary echinacea seedling.
I had four begonia cuttings (plain old pink blooming kind) that I absent-mindedly stuck in a jar last November and promptly forgot about. Today I potted them up and if their roots make the transition from water to potting soil they'll go out back late this month or early next month. The plants I've already put in are filling in nicely and I'm beginning to wonder what I'll do with all those coleus... must remind myself that I'll be grateful for the late summer color.
....except that my whole yard is 17 x 17, we've been feeding the sparrows for months, and my sheets would be covered with bird poop in about 20 seconds.
Another good reason to move!
On the other hand, there's a volunteer opp to work on a little public garden outside the Hort Soc headquarters tonight at 5:30. That's an easy bike ride and I'm sure if I turned up with my trowel land my entrenching tool they wouldn't turn me away.
I am down to my last two Nopalxochia blooms, and one of those is looking a little peaky. The other hasn't opened fully yet. The third 'exotica' scape looks as though it might open by the weekend -- that will have given that one plant a blooming period that spanned at least five weeks, maybe six. Second seedpod from 'gervase' is still hanging in there, but I'm resigned to the possibility of losing it. A couple seedlings from the impatiens sowing never got beyond poking their heads up, so I am resigned to having only eight or nine plants from that sowing. Thyme is doing very well and many of the seedlings have started to show their first minuscule real leaves. Downstairs the second of the Class of 2006 still has one flower defiantly hanging on, and the buds from the third and fourth blooming bulb are hinting at more color than I was expecting. Out back, the parsley seedlings are beginning to show some true leaves, and the volunteer corydalis seedlings can be numbered in the dozens, possibly the hundreds. I see some four o' clocks coming up, too, and I believe I may be seeing one solitary echinacea seedling.
I had four begonia cuttings (plain old pink blooming kind) that I absent-mindedly stuck in a jar last November and promptly forgot about. Today I potted them up and if their roots make the transition from water to potting soil they'll go out back late this month or early next month. The plants I've already put in are filling in nicely and I'm beginning to wonder what I'll do with all those coleus... must remind myself that I'll be grateful for the late summer color.
