jennycatar's Blog

wow
May 15, 2008 | 8:44 PM PST
Tags: plants , cardinal , seeds

Wow, it's been over a month since my last entry! It's been a wild one ... more storms, lots of rain, and a few new plants.

 Got a mixed hanging planter with some daisy like flowers, wave petunias, and another viney looking plant that I can't remember the name of. Transplanted them fromt he hanging pot to a large planter, since right now I have no place to hang a plant. Also got some free coreopsis from a neighbor who was thinning out her plants. They look kind of pathetic right now, and may not make it, but at least they were free. This weekend I"m probably getting a potted braided trunk hibiscus tree ... haven't decided on color yet, but I was kind of partial to the deep coral colored one.

One of Rick's flying buddies had him over there to fix a computer. The guy's wife offered Rick some rose bush rootings. Rick told her he needed to check with me first to see if I could grown them in a container. Well, after looking on the forums here turns out yes, I can grow them in a container ... so I should be getting an orange rose bush rooting soon too.

Left my seed feeder up because I'd rather see the birds eat it than the mice ... the birds emptied the feeder soon enough but because of the weather ... and the fact that I'm lazy ... the empty feeder sat for a while ... the other day I had a cardinal land on the empty feeder, then look in the door and chirp as to say "Hey! What's up with this!" So I've got an open feeder with sunflower seeds out there now ... but the cheeky little thing seems to be camera shy ... every time I lift the camera he flies away.

Hopefully tomorrow is nice for a change and I can get some of my flower seeds finally planted.
 

Phew
Apr 11, 2008 | 7:57 PM PST
Tags: storm , sunflowers , plants , daisies

The storms pretty much fizzled out and the worst of it passed to the south of us. We did get about a half a foot of rain in two hours and parts of town were flooded pretty bad. But all in all not bad.

Went grocery shopping today, drooled over some of the plants the guy was putting out. Some gorgeous petunias and double impatients, and pots of sunflowers. Think I want to use some of my garden cash to get one of those pots of sunflowers. Along with daisies and black eyed susans, sunflowers are my favorite flowers.

Plan on getting a cute dish planter and a variety of cacti and making a cactus garden. It can stay outside during the warm season and I'll find a place for it inside during the winter.

Hopefully this weekend I can get my daisy seeds planted and haul the pot out for the hyacinth bean vines and get those seeds planted too. I also need to hit Rick's grandfather up for some of his white daisies. From what I understand he planted a small amount and now they are taking over, so I can steal some without a problem.

Hopefully new plants this weekend!