Category: Gardening (Page 1 of 179)

I had yesterday off because of MLKjr Day. I would love to say I accomplished many projects and ran lots of errands. I did not. I did get my grading done, so at least there’s that.

I also went to a plant nursery that I like a lot. It is all indoors. I could have taken lots of pictures of their beautiful houseplants, but I didn’t. The only picture I took was of some pots. I wondered if they might fit in the bathroom windowsill.

I am very thankful for the extra day of weekend. I feel so rested.

I did some gardening yesterday!

I stopped at Lowe’s on Saturday, and saw they had summer flowering bulbs and different kinds of bare-root plants for sale. One the packages was globe thistle roots. I love globe thistles! And there were six plants for ten dollars! So cheap! I bought a package.

The roots were already sprouting, so I would need to get them in the ground quickly.

I don’t have much dirt to plant things in, so it was going to have to be pots. I decided to put a couple big pots against the far wall of my yard. They’re the two short blue ones on each side below:

I don’t like them there, but this is just for this year, and it’s an experiment. I’m not sure globe thistles will do well here since there isn’t really any winter for them to go dormant in.

I’m doing a tech workshop that meets once a month. Yesterday was January’s meeting. It’s in Orange, which is on the other side of my school from my house. It’s giving me opportunity to get to know a new area.

When we went to lunch, we drove past a nursery. After our workshop was over, I was excited to check it out. Here’s where it’s located. For reference, my house is straight south of the “405” marker on the map.

The nursery was fun. It was long and skinny:

It had a pond in it! They had roped it off for the winter, but I could look over the gate:

And most interestingly, they had a very large specimen of the Euphorbia lactea variegata I got this past summer. Will mine get this big? That would be crazy!

Here’s my plant when I bought it:

And here’s the one at the nursery:

My stupid palm trees in front of my house needed stupid trimming again. Their stupid leaves die and I have to cut them off or they look terrible. And their stupid leaves have giant spikes on them, so they’re hard to jam into the trash can.

I wish my palm trees were dead.

I trimmed all but one of them yesterday. I ran out of room in my trash can.

On Friday I opened the back door to my garage, and noticed a bunch of black things by the doorjamb. I wondered what they were. Bugs? It creeped me out a little.

When I looked closer, I saw that they were snails. A bunch of dead snails. It rained here a lot during Christmas break. Did all that water bring them out or help them procreate or something? Weird.

Then yesterday, I was walking past my big garage door, and noticed there were dead snails stuck all over it. What the heck?

I did a little internet searching, but I couldn’t find anything. Hopefully it’s not a symptom of something bad happening at my house, like mold or ghosts or something.