Keeping Abreast of Things...
Nov. 20th, 2010 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
endlessraritiesThis is ridiculous. It's not yet reached December, and I seem to be keeping abreast of my Christmas shopping. What on earth's the matter with me? Usually I don't have two pennies to rub together at this time in the month, but because I've been getting transport to and from work since September, and saving money because I've had to cancel half my horse-riding lessons, I thought I'd seize the initiative and start my shopping early. A prudent move: my MOT's coming up at the end of the month, and since my car's fourteen years old, I don't think it'll be a cheap round.
I haven't been posting any pictures of the garden just recently because everything's a bit dull, and because I've been too knackered to think about it much. I've planted a lovely selection of purple and white tulips for the spring, and the begonias are all tucked up warm and vine-weevil free for the winter. I'm progressively bringing in half-hardy annuals for next year - fuschia, osteospermum, geranium - but the problem is that everything else still looks reasonably happy. We've had a few nights where the temperature's dropped to minus 2, but the petunias and surfinias and verbena are surviving.
I had a plant catalogue sent through from Hayloft Plants yesterday. The Purveyors of Fine Penstemmon can provide a range of perennials for plant-lovers - I was positively drooling as I leafed through their selection. I have a weakness for fine plants, as well you know...
One thing's a must. A yellow hellebore. It's lovely. Me want. Me want B-A-A-D!!!
Oh, for all the plant-lovers out there.... I have managed to half-kill my magnificent Begonia Escargot. I found it looking very poorly yesterday morning - it was reminiscent of Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors during its half-starved phases. The compost was dry, so I'm hoping it'll perk up now it's had some water... For the last couple of weeks, I've been too exhausted to look after my plants properly. How I'll cope next year, when I have to combine building survey with baby plant management, remains to be seen...
I haven't been posting any pictures of the garden just recently because everything's a bit dull, and because I've been too knackered to think about it much. I've planted a lovely selection of purple and white tulips for the spring, and the begonias are all tucked up warm and vine-weevil free for the winter. I'm progressively bringing in half-hardy annuals for next year - fuschia, osteospermum, geranium - but the problem is that everything else still looks reasonably happy. We've had a few nights where the temperature's dropped to minus 2, but the petunias and surfinias and verbena are surviving.
I had a plant catalogue sent through from Hayloft Plants yesterday. The Purveyors of Fine Penstemmon can provide a range of perennials for plant-lovers - I was positively drooling as I leafed through their selection. I have a weakness for fine plants, as well you know...
One thing's a must. A yellow hellebore. It's lovely. Me want. Me want B-A-A-D!!!
Oh, for all the plant-lovers out there.... I have managed to half-kill my magnificent Begonia Escargot. I found it looking very poorly yesterday morning - it was reminiscent of Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors during its half-starved phases. The compost was dry, so I'm hoping it'll perk up now it's had some water... For the last couple of weeks, I've been too exhausted to look after my plants properly. How I'll cope next year, when I have to combine building survey with baby plant management, remains to be seen...
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Date: 2010-11-20 04:41 pm (UTC)We hit the town like a military strike-force. We plan, execute, then withdraw. After lunch, of course...