What spring should be like
Mixed overcast with teasing bits of sun in the morning. Threatening YET ANOTHER goddamned dreary wet day after I can't even COUNT how many - but then by noon the clouds went. away.
Really!
And stayed gone!
ALL! DAY!!!
I repotted the ficus! And some spider plants.
And then, because it was so frickin' nice, and that might not happen again for weeks, by which time when it is sunny out, it will also be hot and muggy, because Boston doesn't do a proper spring-as-season, I went to the den of vice local plant seller and ogled lots of things and then bought some annuals and a few perennials, and spent the rest of the afternoon outside.
(Annuals: some lobelia for planters on the back porch, and gazanias for the yard, because I love them and cannot pass them by, and maybe this fall I will try to remember to pot them up and bring them inside and see if they can overwinter. They bloom really late into the fall, unlike many other things.
Perennials, all for the shady front: Irish moss, archangel, and a pot of toad lilies. I will have toad lilies yet, I swear! The lilies I put in a year or two ago didn't make it.)
I discovered a couple of things coming up in the yard that I thought had died; we'll see if they are happy enough to bloom. I also discovered something new, with small, delicate flowers and feathery foliage - I guess from some seed mix I threw in the yard? I transplanted it somewhere it won't be getting smashed by the forsythia's foliage, so with luck it will survive, and perhaps give the forget-me-nots some competition. They are growing quite well!
I remain stunned by the hour upon hour of unbroken sunlight.
Originally posted here: http://hrafn.dreamwidth.org/509522.html. Pick your poison and comment there.
Really!
And stayed gone!
ALL! DAY!!!
I repotted the ficus! And some spider plants.
And then, because it was so frickin' nice, and that might not happen again for weeks, by which time when it is sunny out, it will also be hot and muggy, because Boston doesn't do a proper spring-as-season, I went to the den of vice local plant seller and ogled lots of things and then bought some annuals and a few perennials, and spent the rest of the afternoon outside.
(Annuals: some lobelia for planters on the back porch, and gazanias for the yard, because I love them and cannot pass them by, and maybe this fall I will try to remember to pot them up and bring them inside and see if they can overwinter. They bloom really late into the fall, unlike many other things.
Perennials, all for the shady front: Irish moss, archangel, and a pot of toad lilies. I will have toad lilies yet, I swear! The lilies I put in a year or two ago didn't make it.)
I discovered a couple of things coming up in the yard that I thought had died; we'll see if they are happy enough to bloom. I also discovered something new, with small, delicate flowers and feathery foliage - I guess from some seed mix I threw in the yard? I transplanted it somewhere it won't be getting smashed by the forsythia's foliage, so with luck it will survive, and perhaps give the forget-me-nots some competition. They are growing quite well!
I remain stunned by the hour upon hour of unbroken sunlight.
Originally posted here: http://hrafn.dreamwidth.org/509522.html. Pick your poison and comment there.