Yay! I finally got to work in my garden yesterday.
First, I brought out the potted plants that have been over-wintering inside. It’s always a challenge to keep them alive when they aren’t outside: Will there be enough sunlight? Will the red spider mites get them? I’m proud to say I did not have a fatality this winter.
Next, I planted some things that arrived in the mail over spring break. The first thing was a musa sikkimensis, or Himalayan banana tree. I had already decided to get this back in January. It was hard to decide where to put it. I eventually settled on putting it near the entrance to my back yard garden. I think it will be a nice gateway plant to introduce the whole “tropical garden” look I’m doing.
For now, it’s still quite small.
And lastly, I planted some lily bulbs that came over spring break as well. These were a little bit of an impulse buy, but I just had to see what they looked like in real life. They are oriental lilies, so that means they’ll smell good, much like Stargazers. These are called Sumatras. They are supposed to be a dark, dark red. I want to see if they live up to my expectations. So that I wouldn’t forget where I put them, I took a picture of the planting site:
Thanks for sharing your magic gardening words with us. I’m definately gonna give them a try. Are there any gestures or nose wiggling that go along with them.
Is that a real pineapple plant/tree? Or just what it’s called.
They’re pineapple tops I stuck in dirt and they grew. They’re a year and a half old. I don’t know if they’ll ever fruit, but it sure is fun to grow them. 🙂
You should stick that old lamp-post in the dirt and see how it does.
Could you stick a few dollar bills in the ground and see what you get?
How ’bout a cheeseburger tree? You could rake in the bucks charging for fresh-grown burgers! Oh, wait… just do what Beth said. Eliminate the middleman.
Well, I have heard that if you cut off a tiny piece of pinkie finger from a 7th grader, and stick it in the ground, that you can grow another 7th grader…wait a minute…there should be a law against that!
No, that can’t be right, with as many 7th graders as I’ve buried, we’d be overrun by now. Um, I mean, surely that is not medically possible.
hehehe