- Location:study hole
- Mood:
creative - Music:beatles - hey jude
- Mood:
working
- Location:study hole
- Mood:
hot - Music:four tet
- Location:work
- Mood:
productive - Music:shoddy ventilation
The very first time I saw them, I was pretty freaked out. Now I'm kind of warm to the idea... it's like having two plants for the price of one. Still, they're so bizarre and out of place that when they first sprout, I'm almost in denial about them. "That's a weird lump of yellow something in the dirt. Maybe it's a fertilizer bead. I guess I'll just cover it with dirt and hope it goes away." But three days later, there's no denying.
( see the creepy little things for yourself! )
- Location:study hole
- Mood: hot
- Music:tom petty - something from "wildflowers" that I forget the name of
It seems like a succulent. When damaged, it bleeds orange juice. And when you lean in and really give it a sniff, it has the faint but distinct odor of Starburst candy.
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- Mood:
curious - Music:m. ward
I've decided to do one of these a month, if I can remember. I'm just going to show the highlights, the big changes, and the really striking stuff, since nobody, even me, wants to deal with twenty pictures of spider plants, not to mention the rest of the gang.
So, anyone want a spider plant? Haha, running joke... except, no really you guys, I'm starting to think they're plotting against me at night. I can hear them whispering...
- Location:work
- Mood: productive
- Music:this beard is for siobhan
It's sort of tender and juicy like a succulent, but it's been growing on this particular rock wall as long as I can remember (20+ years) so it must be able to survive some pretty harsh PGH winters.
The 20-25 (seriously) other plants I have say hi, but I didn't want to go overboard. (Haha.) We may check in on them later this summer.
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- Location:study hole
- Mood:
accomplished - Music:ozzy rules!
But the large frond in a jar of treated water has formed little baby proto-roots! Nowhere near enough to plant, but it's definitely making progress.
- Location:study hole
- Mood:
excited - Music:paperback writer
- Location:study hole
- Mood: accomplished
- Music:frightened rabbit
I have some traditional cuttings, which are basically bare chunks of stick in a little pot with a plastic bag over them. I have a few larger branches with needles, which I stuck in a big box of dirt with no covering. I have one large frond in a jar of rooting-hormone-treated water, and I have two little twigs in a glass of rooting-hormone-treated water. All have some sturdiness to them, and all but the bare sticks also have new growth at the tips. At least one of these methods should work, right?
Heh, I must be crazy.
- Location:study hole
- Mood: accomplished
- Music:alman brothers
And that's all she wrote... this month, anyway. Who knows what jungle will lurk in my residence after a full growing season?
- Location:the attic
- Mood: excited
- Music:cell phone ring tone symphony orchestra
The gardening season is definitely drawing to a close.
Seriously. If anyone wants a plant, or knows someone who does, let me know.
- Mood:
satisfied
damn, i just did a whole big entry and lost it at the last minute. oh well, the shortened version.
***
well, my caterpillars, who have been MIA for some time now, have finally started to re-emerge as moths. good for them.
i'm still not 100% sure what I have is army worms, but they're close.
could they be tropical army worms? the moths look pretty danged dead-on.
and now for a lovely classic illustration plate.
- Mood:
shocked
- Mood: shocked
I'm off today because I work tomorrow. It's mind boggling how people rub that in, "Oh, you're off on a Friday." Like it's some kind of a treat.
Oh well. At least I get to sit around and drink my delicious "stove coffee" (my electric coffeemaker died in its sleep) and watch the cleaning lady sweep my porch 400 times. Maybe she has some kind of obsession with spider plants. Nobody has more spider plants than I do. Well, those people certainly work hard-- if she wants to hang out in my garden while I'm not around (so she thinks), then more power to her. And if I get my lawn clippings swept in return, then all the better. I guess. It's still kind of weird.
- Mood:
aggravated
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