Spring is... springing!
I just looked at the clematis out on my balcony and it has little shoots that are already nearly a foot tall! So I cut all the old dead branches away and now the little guys can grow with fury, hopefully. Amazing to me that they'd already grown that much when I hadn't put any water in the container since - oh - October? Plants are awesome, in that they (sometimes) can cope with my neglect and still be beautiful. The ivy in a pot in the kitchen has little tendrils growing all over (the one that
jessmonster gave me out of her collection back when I first got an apartment). The spider plant she gave me is still surviving, but not flourishing, and I know the reason for that is that it needs to be repotted and I often forget to water it. Details. It did have babies several times years ago, and frankly I'm impressed that it's survived as long as it has. Note to self: repot spider plant once moved to house.
I'm so excited to discover the stuff growing in the yard, it will be so exciting to see what blooms throughout the year. So many things that looked dead on previous visits, but on Saturday we saw things budding and mom was able to identify some of them for me. A pink rhododendron was in bloom, and there were purple and white crocuses coming up by the front door. Maybe having a garden will turn me into a green thumb. Or a disastrous failure of a gardener who has to hire landscapers out of sheer ineptitude.
OH - and we are officially owners of one of these, our one big splurge we're allowing ourselves for the house (kind of a housewarming gift to ourselves). We found it on clearance in exactly the color and style I had been drooling over. Yay, blue!
jessmonster gave me out of her collection back when I first got an apartment). The spider plant she gave me is still surviving, but not flourishing, and I know the reason for that is that it needs to be repotted and I often forget to water it. Details. It did have babies several times years ago, and frankly I'm impressed that it's survived as long as it has. Note to self: repot spider plant once moved to house.
I'm so excited to discover the stuff growing in the yard, it will be so exciting to see what blooms throughout the year. So many things that looked dead on previous visits, but on Saturday we saw things budding and mom was able to identify some of them for me. A pink rhododendron was in bloom, and there were purple and white crocuses coming up by the front door. Maybe having a garden will turn me into a green thumb. Or a disastrous failure of a gardener who has to hire landscapers out of sheer ineptitude.
OH - and we are officially owners of one of these, our one big splurge we're allowing ourselves for the house (kind of a housewarming gift to ourselves). We found it on clearance in exactly the color and style I had been drooling over. Yay, blue!