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.
 

Yay!
Mar 24, 2008 | 2:34 PM PST
Tags: seeds , Hyacinth Bean , daisy , hummingbirds

Yay! My new seeds arrived today. Twenty-five each of  red and white Hyancinth Bean seeds. I already have the seeds for purple ones, well, Rick's mom does I can't find mine, they must be in a box in the storage unit, which is a mess right now. So I'll share some of these seeds with Rick's mom and his Granny and next year we'll all have tons of the seed. The hummingbirds love this plant, and so do the butterflies. 

 I planted my freecycle vinca the other day, but I"ll be surprised if it survives. It poured for two days following my getting it, and it may have gotten too dried out. If it makes it cool, if not, well, it was free so I'm not going to be totally devistated. It doesn't look like the vinca I had planted last year or the year before either. This is an actual vining plant, the other stuff was mainly flowers with little greenery. We'll see what happens. As I said, it was a free plant and you gotta love free plants.

Hopefully sometime this week I'll get my big flower pot out of the storage unit and I can get the tomato cage I used last year as a trellis for the Hyancinth Bean set up in it, and the feeder hook/pole I'm planning to put in the middle of the pot set up and I can get those seeds planted soon. I also want to get the daisy seeds I have planted too.

Yay for spring!