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I am evil and I gloat and am catty
Feb. 24th, 2011 02:50 pm( Gloating )
In other news, I am enjoying The Scarlet Pimpernel. It's not like 'wow' everyone go out and read it, but it's nice classic fluff that I probably would have liked even more as an early adolescent.
I planted four varieties of poppies around the first of February and all of them have sprouted. So far so good! And the agrostemma I planted in November looks very happy. I planted it way too densely in my inexperience and have been shifting little plants to other spots around the garden. They don't care for this, pouting even when I take a big root ball with them, but a good rain seems to restore their good humor. However I have been too chicken to plant the fancy seeds I bought and spoke about. This must change! Odds of germination are certainly better in my inexperienced hands than leaving them in their little envelopes. Mostly I've worked on my tenant's yard lately, planting some landscaping shrubs that should provide them some privacy in a few years and also provide birds with berries and habitat, and there's also a blueberry bush and a native huckleberry in the mix that might provide some fruit to people.
I spent the last of a gift windfall on four 'Sunshine Blue' blueberry bushes for my own yard. These are just spectacularly lovely to me as foliage plants. They are evergreen and right now the cold has made the leaves purple/rose/bronze. They are blue-green the rest of the year with lots of tasty berries. I hired a 'gardening coach' with money from selling a book on animation that had turned hard-to-find and valuable since I bought it, and she gave me some interesting suggestions and has inspired me to create more 'year round interest' i.e. the blueberry bushes. I also added another artichoke at her suggestion which are very cheap bareroot right now and are really neat looking in the winter/early spring when other stuff is dormant.
Now it's time to go to the beach I think. I heard a rumor that it's snowing on the coast about 45 minutes drive to the north and that's a once-in-a-decade-if-that phenom around here.
In other news, I am enjoying The Scarlet Pimpernel. It's not like 'wow' everyone go out and read it, but it's nice classic fluff that I probably would have liked even more as an early adolescent.
I planted four varieties of poppies around the first of February and all of them have sprouted. So far so good! And the agrostemma I planted in November looks very happy. I planted it way too densely in my inexperience and have been shifting little plants to other spots around the garden. They don't care for this, pouting even when I take a big root ball with them, but a good rain seems to restore their good humor. However I have been too chicken to plant the fancy seeds I bought and spoke about. This must change! Odds of germination are certainly better in my inexperienced hands than leaving them in their little envelopes. Mostly I've worked on my tenant's yard lately, planting some landscaping shrubs that should provide them some privacy in a few years and also provide birds with berries and habitat, and there's also a blueberry bush and a native huckleberry in the mix that might provide some fruit to people.
I spent the last of a gift windfall on four 'Sunshine Blue' blueberry bushes for my own yard. These are just spectacularly lovely to me as foliage plants. They are evergreen and right now the cold has made the leaves purple/rose/bronze. They are blue-green the rest of the year with lots of tasty berries. I hired a 'gardening coach' with money from selling a book on animation that had turned hard-to-find and valuable since I bought it, and she gave me some interesting suggestions and has inspired me to create more 'year round interest' i.e. the blueberry bushes. I also added another artichoke at her suggestion which are very cheap bareroot right now and are really neat looking in the winter/early spring when other stuff is dormant.
Now it's time to go to the beach I think. I heard a rumor that it's snowing on the coast about 45 minutes drive to the north and that's a once-in-a-decade-if-that phenom around here.
