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Plant Wrangling
Feb. 19th, 2023 07:02 pmThere was a Plant Exchange in my suburb today where I dropped in to see whether I could pick up anything useful. You didn't have to have a plant. This is part of the local Buy Nothing group where you help, if you can, without expectation of reward. People were eager for others to load up on cuttings and plants so, they said, they would not need to take them home again.
I scored a begonia which is now in water with another inside plant and a succulent which is sharing a pot with my violet geranium. Which has been the most reluctant geranium I ever had, being a new variety. It's alive but hasn't grown enough to pass any cuttings on to people. I do have a young jaracanda tree in a pot which either needs to get moved to a tub or out in a garden.
Being a renter, I can't do that last, though I'm reluctant to let it go. There are scores of the trees in the suburb but I've found they don't survive very well if you move them as seedlings. This is the first one that ever survived to get out of seedling stage. I'd like to bonsai it but am scared I'll kill it. Yes, jacarandas do strike on their own but I think the agents would notice if it suddenly appeared in the centre of the lawn. This is it.
photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOu17BreftBmTOEaHfOwW9NHvmMDtKkn3PSY78LHxd-Bx2MFQwjJwoZzhLQQtYtCg/photo/AF1QipMLQbfnAI4xpuOOmq4r5xse47nZjhg8itW2PRaQ
I also scored some garlic chives which I can hopefully cook with when I learn how much to use. No clue at the moment.
Anyway, that's the weekend. Parental Wrangling on Saturday, then house jobs and snoozing. The Plant Exchange today, the rest of the housework and just sort of pottering. I know I was doing things but on semi-autopilot. Watering plants and grass is done on semi-autopilot.
I'm still watching The Last of Us. Loved what I have to call the Bill and Frank show, since the name of the episode eludes me already. Not so crazy about the survivors battle it out in the city scenarios but the characters keep me watching.
I scored a begonia which is now in water with another inside plant and a succulent which is sharing a pot with my violet geranium. Which has been the most reluctant geranium I ever had, being a new variety. It's alive but hasn't grown enough to pass any cuttings on to people. I do have a young jaracanda tree in a pot which either needs to get moved to a tub or out in a garden.
Being a renter, I can't do that last, though I'm reluctant to let it go. There are scores of the trees in the suburb but I've found they don't survive very well if you move them as seedlings. This is the first one that ever survived to get out of seedling stage. I'd like to bonsai it but am scared I'll kill it. Yes, jacarandas do strike on their own but I think the agents would notice if it suddenly appeared in the centre of the lawn. This is it.
photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOu17BreftBmTOEaHfOwW9NHvmMDtKkn3PSY78LHxd-Bx2MFQwjJwoZzhLQQtYtCg/photo/AF1QipMLQbfnAI4xpuOOmq4r5xse47nZjhg8itW2PRaQ
I also scored some garlic chives which I can hopefully cook with when I learn how much to use. No clue at the moment.
Anyway, that's the weekend. Parental Wrangling on Saturday, then house jobs and snoozing. The Plant Exchange today, the rest of the housework and just sort of pottering. I know I was doing things but on semi-autopilot. Watering plants and grass is done on semi-autopilot.
I'm still watching The Last of Us. Loved what I have to call the Bill and Frank show, since the name of the episode eludes me already. Not so crazy about the survivors battle it out in the city scenarios but the characters keep me watching.
