Okay, so “crocus” comes from Greek, not Latin, but I think “croci” is funny, so they’re croci. I soaked the soil well yesterday and they all went in easily, except two where I ran into an osage-orange root (HOW!?!?) There were supposed to be 40, but there were actually 38-3/4; 38 that looked really good […]
I didn’t feel like doing much today, so…I didn’t! I spent most of the morning sitting outside in the cold with my little feet heater, watching birds and shooting at the occasional starling on the suet feeders. While I was deciding whether to integrate my crocus bulbs into the part of the lawn that I […]
It was chilly this morning, so the first thing I did wasn’t garden-y or landscape-related at all. Well, kind of, I guess, since my ancient grey fuzzy shirt is my favourite cold-weather outerwear. Anyway, it has a new zipper now. I wonder if this one will last for 15 years? We didn’t get frost, or […]
It’s still not light enough for me to tell whether we got frost last night or not, but there was a frost warning. Sucks, because I still have stuff in bloom, but I guess it had to happen eventually. I actually took this on Thursday after work. They didn’t quite get the chance to bloom […]
It was such a lovely day that I wanted to leave at lunch, but I pissed around long enough that one customer caught me, and then another, and I ended up leaving at 1330h. I had planned to do nothing, but I’m not very good at that, so I watered the stuff around the pond, […]
I had to do laundry, but since we’re fast running out of days to dry things in the sun, and yesterday was warm and sunny with a good breeze, I’d made up my mind to pressure wash the mat in front of the door. It hadn’t been actually washed since I got it, and it […]
In spite of the best efforts by the venerable United Parcel Service… And in spite of the poor, unpadded, unsealed grocery bag packaging… My ginger arrived today. She’d never given me a tracking number, and she’d listed shipping as USPS, but whatever–it got here. A bit dry, but it’s been cool enough that being stuck […]
River oats, inland sea oats…whatever you want to call it, the seeds are in (really more like “on”) the ground. Since I accomplished little yesterday, and nothing at all Friday after work, only two pictures… This is the second of the lobelia that bloomed in Sarah-Flah’s garden. Photos just don’t capture the true, clear red, […]
Supposed to be doing laundry, but received my single bloom hollyhocks, for which I paid $12 flat-rate shipping, but only $1.04 for the plants. I had to pull out zinnia and Mexican sunflowers, which sort of sucked because we got some rain and they probably would’ve bloomed until frost, but I had to plant the […]
My poor little birds don’t have to fight over feeder space anymore. UPS took its sweet time getting here with the new tray, but made it in time for me to get it drilled, put the base on, reset the post and fill the feeder just before 16 cardinals were ready for supper. This one […]