I still have two more pots to do, and it wasn’t easy to cut them without breaking, but I do at least have two toad shelters so my little dudes can get out of the hot sun, and be safe. I could have used plastic pots, which are much easier to cut, but clay does […]

Grey Stick is dead. Long live Grey Stick! One of the Grey Sticks we brought from 544 is alive and well, but due to my unfamiliarity with the light and soil of Parview, and being in a rush, I placed the largest one poorly, and it died. A small Grey Stick grew over there, but […]

It’s so pretty!!! It’s apparently very…uh…vigorous, too. Don’t care; if it looks like this, I’ll prune it as often as necessary. 05-03-18: 05-04-18:

I thought I was buying spicebush, but what arrived was Carolina allspice, and by way of apology for the mistake, the seller said they were “similar”. Well, yes, you dumb bitch, in that both are shrubby things, and both are natives, and both have “spice” in their common names, but I’m quite certain that Spicebush […]

Well, one of the Rockins, at least. This one is on the fence, and the male parks his arse on the neighbours’ roof, ready to defend his wife and kids (though Mrs. Rockin is perfectly capable of launching a shrieking air attack worthy of the Luftwaffe, should that become necessary). Taken 04-18-18. This forsythia has […]

A couple of weeks ago, it occurred to me to check on the Virginia bluebells. I saw a couple of leaves just beginning to peep up from the ground. Disappointed, I thought that most of them had probably died because it was so hot and dry last summer, and I didn’t water them at all. […]

For reasons known only to that hateful bitch, Mother Nature, it’s turned cold. Not just, “Gee, it’s a little chilly out here,” but record-breaking, frost on the goddamned punkins cold. Fuck winter. This winter is like that volatile relationship that you had in your 20s where you fought all the time, and had to have […]

So, as always, I’m late getting these posted (half of the reason is that multi-image uploads always fail from the fucking WP app and piss me off so I don’t even want to bother anymore). Anyway, it may be chilly and grey on the first day of sprang, but sprang is sprangin’ whether the weather […]

What I really mean is “caught up FOR now”, but sprang be sprangin’, and ah be watchin’ it! Not too long now before pretty purple hyacinths bloom. Fingers crossed for the other colours! It’s been so cloudy and dull lately that the lovely little croci are closed more often than not, but they certainly are […]

I took these ages ago, because it’s actually 03-12, but I was lazy getting them cropped/resized, then I couldn’t get them to upload from my phone, then my site was down for a couple of days, then I got busy, so whatever. Everything’s a lot farther advanced now, of course, but I took them, and […]