The amaryllises that I started later than usual are finally starting to bloom. I’m okay with this timing — just in time for Valentine’s Day, and since they usually bloom for 4-6 weeks, it’ll hopefully be long enough carry me through to spring.
Milkweed pods in my back alley. When we repaired the cement here, I had them leave little squares of soil bordering the garage door, for planting. I planted climbing roses there (Blaze, which is lovely and does its thing with a couple flushes of roses every year without additional watering, for which I adore it),
It was so lovely outside yesterday (high of almost 60) that I abandoned my work for three hours and walked the kids up to the Green line, trained over to the Garfield Park Conservatory, got ice cream, and wandered around. Kevin had too much paperwork and had to stay home on a beautiful day bent
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I was craving flowers last week, after too many January days without sun, but we’re at the point where the flowers will be showing up outside soon. So I don’t really want to buy fresh flowers anymore, so while I was at Target, I picked up some silk / dried flowers and a vase —
The sunshine really helps, doesn’t it? In January, I tend to focus on greens and whites in the house, pulling back from all the holiday decor, starting the year with a clean simplicity to refresh the soul. I trim away dead stems, finish repotting things I hadn’t gotten around to in the holiday rush, add
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Recently someone in our garden club asked about how you put together a terrarium. Since our house cleaner also recently knocked over and broke the small terrarium we had (sitting on an overly-tippy end table), I took that opportunity to pick up what I’d really wanted all along — a taller, free-standing terrarium, big enough
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A few people have asked about the earlier photo of the paperwhites, whether they continued to work in those individual vases (hyacinth glasses, picked up over the years from Trader Joe’s in the spring). Mostly yes, with a little help. As you can see, I couldn’t find one of my copper stakes (I think it’s
