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tea_and_toast) wrote2015-01-22 08:09 pm
tea_and_toast) wrote2015-01-22 08:09 pm
The Garden in January
Some people post pretty pictures of paperwhite bulbs in teacups on their dining table, or on the mantel, surrounded by candlelight and cozy things, because it's too cold outside for flowers or even fresh young greenery.
Not only do we not have to grow them inside here... these paperwhites popped up on their own in a pot that's been sitting with a saucer over it for months now, with no water or sunlight. As soon as I realized that wasn't grass growing, I rescued them to the patio and we started watering them, but really, these flowers would have carried on merrily without any help.
The blueberries are coming, the blueberries are coming! The younger of our two bushes got all excited and put out tons of flowers. I'm so proud of it. Yum!
Apparently being trampled by masonry workers is not enough to keep a good lantana down. Nor is frost.
Peas --
--and lettuce. Our crops for the season. Since we started them from seed, on... December 28 because I was impatient, it'll be a while before we can harvest anything. December is springtime, right? We did have some frosts after planting them, but nothing too severe, apparently.
One of the two camellias I bought at the Huntington did not make it this past year, but the other is doing well and putting out teeny pink flowers. I'm so glad to see it. I wonder if the lilac and the wisteria I planted will bloom for the first time this year -- hoping so, since we intend to move at some point, and I'd like to at least see them flower once.
Since it's entirely possible there will have to be a crib where my sewing desk is right now, I've been putting together this quilt with, shall we say, a little haste. It's a hunter star pattern made of glittery pale blue and deep dark blue. I call it a Jack Frost quilt.
Of course, I also have plans to sew a few more grocery bags, placemats, a holder for my knitting needles, some bibs, burp cloths, a nursing pillow cover, and probably a half dozen other things I've forgotten just now.
My first knitted sweater is almost finished (baby size! super fast!) but I still have to do the last button band down the front and add the buttons. More on that later, probably.
Not only do we not have to grow them inside here... these paperwhites popped up on their own in a pot that's been sitting with a saucer over it for months now, with no water or sunlight. As soon as I realized that wasn't grass growing, I rescued them to the patio and we started watering them, but really, these flowers would have carried on merrily without any help.
The blueberries are coming, the blueberries are coming! The younger of our two bushes got all excited and put out tons of flowers. I'm so proud of it. Yum!
Apparently being trampled by masonry workers is not enough to keep a good lantana down. Nor is frost.
Peas --
--and lettuce. Our crops for the season. Since we started them from seed, on... December 28 because I was impatient, it'll be a while before we can harvest anything. December is springtime, right? We did have some frosts after planting them, but nothing too severe, apparently.
One of the two camellias I bought at the Huntington did not make it this past year, but the other is doing well and putting out teeny pink flowers. I'm so glad to see it. I wonder if the lilac and the wisteria I planted will bloom for the first time this year -- hoping so, since we intend to move at some point, and I'd like to at least see them flower once.
Since it's entirely possible there will have to be a crib where my sewing desk is right now, I've been putting together this quilt with, shall we say, a little haste. It's a hunter star pattern made of glittery pale blue and deep dark blue. I call it a Jack Frost quilt.
Of course, I also have plans to sew a few more grocery bags, placemats, a holder for my knitting needles, some bibs, burp cloths, a nursing pillow cover, and probably a half dozen other things I've forgotten just now.
My first knitted sweater is almost finished (baby size! super fast!) but I still have to do the last button band down the front and add the buttons. More on that later, probably.