Garden journal: empty windowsill
May. 14th, 2013 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lblanchardToday I moved all those hippeastrum out back (and then right back into the dining room when the promised warm spell didn't materialize).
This left me some empty windowsill space up in the third floor. Which is a good thing, because it's high time to pot on the 15 or so Schlumbergera that have been languishing in market packs for about nine months too long. The current plan is to keep one or two and find good homes for the rest. One can only hope that with bigger pots and more careful watering and feeding they'll bloom this fall. Who can resist the gift of a blooming plant? One can only hope. After Christmas I'll want their windowsills again for the Hippeastrums, which will have had their autumn rest.
And so it goes, the circle of life. There's a volunteer tree growing in the wisteria pit. At this early stage in its life I can't tell whether it's in the apple family or (hiss!) a young mulberry. If the latter it will die a horrible death. If the former, it may live on, but in a pot.
This left me some empty windowsill space up in the third floor. Which is a good thing, because it's high time to pot on the 15 or so Schlumbergera that have been languishing in market packs for about nine months too long. The current plan is to keep one or two and find good homes for the rest. One can only hope that with bigger pots and more careful watering and feeding they'll bloom this fall. Who can resist the gift of a blooming plant? One can only hope. After Christmas I'll want their windowsills again for the Hippeastrums, which will have had their autumn rest.
And so it goes, the circle of life. There's a volunteer tree growing in the wisteria pit. At this early stage in its life I can't tell whether it's in the apple family or (hiss!) a young mulberry. If the latter it will die a horrible death. If the former, it may live on, but in a pot.
