Noticed this morning that the Makrut lime tree I bought for Kevin this Christmas (okay, for both of us (okay, maybe mostly for me)) has started blooming. Little limes coming, yay! This is my second time trying a lime tree; the first time, I bought the smallest one they had, didn’t manage to water it […]
It’s getting cold again tomorrow (I am so tired of cold, this point of winter in Chicago is hard, when all you want is for the line to start solidly trending upward), but look. Flowers coming. We just need to hang in there a little longer. (Hellebores, first blooming perennial.)
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The tropical plants that I bring in for the winter are mostly a wall of green, which works just fine for me in bleak January, a bulwark against the snow. But by February, I’m longing for a little color, esp. pink. 🙂 I’ve tucked a Trader Joe’s orchid into one pot (still in its separate little
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Progress photos. I’ve accumulated a fair number of faux flowers over the years, and wanted a way to organize them that was also ideally pretty — I cut a big square of bird netting and nailed it to the wall, and that seems to be working fairly well, in a slightly haphazard way. Little floral
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So, a big question for those who like my stuff. Food stuff, writing stuff, etc. Be my market research. 🙂 Kev and I have been talking about what’s manageable for me in terms of cooking and shipping and the like, and we’re thinking one weekend / month is generally do-able for having one of these
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Stephanie may have arrived for our work session yesterday morning to find me standing on my kitchen island, taking this shot of the amaryllis. 🙂 It’s just SO symmetrical! (Vaguely annoyed with self for not adjusting stake to make the stem completely centered in the pot…but that way lies madness, Mary Anne.) Hm. Wish I’d
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),
