Sunday, April 16, 2006
Who put the stretch in jeans?
Well, whoever you are, Thank You!
Before: tight jeans were like straight jackets for legs
After: tight jeans allow you to walk and bend (not a lot, grant you, but some)
Before: tight jeans were like straight jackets for legs
After: tight jeans allow you to walk and bend (not a lot, grant you, but some)
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Yummy plant
How can such a tiny thing smell so good? This is what I'm talking about:
The flowers are the size of a penny or dime and they open in the evening. Once it's dark, their scent is powerfully strong. Very sweet. Their name is Zaluzianskya capensis 'Midnight Candy' and candy is a good way to describe the scent. They are beautiful, too. Cute, really. The undersides of the flowers are a dark maroon which is really neat looking, especially when they are mid-way open.
Evidently they are pretty easy to start from seed, and I've seen the seeds advertised on eBay. I got my plant from Annie's Annuals, they sell the plants online, too.
I'm really resisting the urge to buy a zillion of these seeds and plant them everywhere...
The flowers are the size of a penny or dime and they open in the evening. Once it's dark, their scent is powerfully strong. Very sweet. Their name is Zaluzianskya capensis 'Midnight Candy' and candy is a good way to describe the scent. They are beautiful, too. Cute, really. The undersides of the flowers are a dark maroon which is really neat looking, especially when they are mid-way open.
Evidently they are pretty easy to start from seed, and I've seen the seeds advertised on eBay. I got my plant from Annie's Annuals, they sell the plants online, too.
I'm really resisting the urge to buy a zillion of these seeds and plant them everywhere...
Monday, April 10, 2006
Alright already! Enough rain!!!!!!!!
It has come to this...protecting my Lewisia garden from the rain.
On Saturday it was pretty nice out, and I visited a great place to buy 'seconds' on planting pots. I got 7 large pots (bigger than 12") for $35. Woopie! Then off to Annie's Annuals, a great nursery to make a pilgrimage to...it's far from me, but worth the drive.
These are a few of my new pots. Inside are some exciting new plants for me. My current major excitement revolves around Cerinthe major purpurescens (middle pot).
This is what they look like when they bloom (from Annie's Annuals)...
I'll show more of my new babies as they grow and get more interesting...but here is what I put into the pots:
red hibiscus, white ginger (brought back from Hawaii a year ago), two tuberose bulbs, and a white bacopa.
cerinthe major, an orange geum, and orange pansy
marmelade bush (streptosolen jamesonii) and a blue bacopa
On Sunday, I had! to garden, even though it was really muddy and nasty. I planted those pots and moved some big calla lilies and got a couple big brugmansias out of their pots and into the ground...
Here are a few of my other fascinations that I've had for at least a couple of months:
Top: old school but wonderful, common Heliotrope - makes my patio smell wonderful at night and in the morning!
Mid-left:Heuchera 'Lime Rickey'
Mid-right: Spirea 'Lime mound'
Bottom: Euphorbia 'Diamond Frost'
Hiding in the midst: Colocasia (lime)
Do you sense a lime trend here?
This is a recent pic of the tundra from Alaska that I brought home summer of 2004. I'm glad it's alive, although the diversity of species has dropped way off.
And, the plant stand I found abandoned. I repainted and bought glass for it and now it's perfect for what I want.
Are you prepared?
