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Showing posts with label potted plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label potted plants. Show all posts

Monday, May 13, 2024

Mother's Day 2024

Heard from my 3 sons, and 3 daughters in law, and one grandson. They all wished me happy Mother's Day. Long phone conversation with one son about his work.

Was I happy? I think so. I have a main sense of just total satisfaction at this time.

Gardening, listening to audio book (Outlander's latest one)...comfy clothes, great weather. No hoopla. I got a take out dinner broiled white fish, cold slaw, baked potato, hush puppies. My tapioca pudding desert had lots of pecans thrown on it. 






I worked on my potted plants for my porch garden. Saturday I got some little purple petunias, and a coleus, and some kind of purple leafed thing, "Persian Sheild." Oh and a new hefty lavender plant. I'm still nursing the one that is probably root bound. Maybe I'll have the energy to put it in a new pot with more soil. I've half a bag of potting soil left, and still 2 purple petunias and the Grosso lavender to plant.


It's 54 outside and partly cloudy. I hear some bird greeting the day, and a constant whir from cars on the two nearby highways. Rain my happen this evening. I'm living in my summer nest among the maple branches outside my second story window on the one side, and my front side of apartment now has pretty plants. Somehow I'm not drawn to bright flowers this year. The purples caught my eye and I went for it.

Today I'll go to the Senior lunch at Lake Tomahawk. I probably will walk down to the dam (1/4 mile) to see what's happening since I've been away. Then I'm meeting some friends who are doing their picnic lunches and walking at their paces. It's always ok for us to stop and rest on the benches along the way. I remember when I first started back, I could only make it to the first bench. Now I can get to the dam without stopping. Next when they open the walk over the dam, I'll try to do the whole half mile around! One of my younger friends can go all the way twice (or did before the dam construction started.)



Oh I almost forgot, there's the apple-mint plant also!


And I spent a little time in the studio yesterday also. Picked up these two new pots, the small one is degfinitely for an orchid to be repotted. I'm thinking larger for the Grosso Lavender. It will probably want to be big.



This is hanging over the balcony on the elevated side of the apartment. It may not get enough sun. We shall see.

Real life most often happens during the in-between times, when we are not celebrating a special occasion.



Friday, October 5, 2018

What colors are around me


I think that spotted leaf is poison ivy.  Wasn't touching it out of my usual caution.

Some nice yellow fungi were tucked in with the foliage under a tree.

My hanging basket of Wandering Jew is doing well, and I'm thinking of how I'll cut it back to bring it inside for the winter.  Not for another month though.
For some reason this coleus has giant leaves with great color.  I may try to keep it alive in the winter...after all my windowsills face south and get plenty of sun once the leaves fall off the trees.


The deep red leaved coleus hasn't done well at all, and will be let to die over wintertime.  My little dragonfly sitting on a kitty aways brings a smile.  The other green plant is a little vinca vine which I'll also overwinter inside.

Once again, dogwood's berries seem to be the most colorful part of the tree...which usually has a vibrant red leaf before they fall.  Maybe in a few weeks.  The berries must not be of interest to the birds, because they remain there on the branches.

TODAY'S QUOTE:

Being aware of our connection to our presence regenerates our personal power.

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Plants being shifted

Welcome to my front porch, before clearing off all the plants for possible Florence winds (which didn't happen!)

The indoor patio!

Windowsills became my garden plot for a couple of weeks.  I'm not going to keep all my plants alive this winter!
However, the African Violets have been outside all summer, and are glad to come in...it's still 85 most days and they are happier with the temperatures I like inside (in low 70s)


And yes, I only have 3 violet plants!