Serendib Garden

Coleus propagation. I think I spy roots? Go, life, go!

The seed packets have arrived, hooray, although I was a little startled to find them arriving in a BOX — just how many seeds did I order, anyway, in the depths of our second COVID winter? A lot of seeds, my friends, a lot. Last night I couldn’t sleep, so I ended up at 1

Whew! At least one of my amaryllises seems to have survived months of not watering, now that I’ve stuck it under the grow lights and given it water. I’ve moved it up to a sunny window; fingers crossed for the rest of them!

Attempting coleus propagation! So, I was at the garden store recently (as one is), and they had this giant coleus in a pot for $25, and I had a hanging basket at home that had just failed with its asparagus fern (too big a root ball for the basket), so I needed to replace it

Pleasant if slightly embarrassing morning going through my one-year-old seeds that I never got around to planting, taking photos and posting to local garden club group for giveaway. They’ll have a lower germination rate since they’re elderly, but still worth a shot, I think, so I’m happy to have some gardeners try. Some of the

Let me preface this by saying I don’t really know what I’m doing here. Also that I clearly made a bunch of mistakes already. But in case it’s helpful, I’m going to walk through this: Amaryllises. So, if you plant them in gravel in glass vases, you can see the pretty white roots winding through,