Category: Gardening (Page 2 of 162)

I did a little gardening yesterday! Yay!

My plumeria tree has been leaning over for a while now, and I put some supports in its pot to help it stay vertical. It would have been scratched by the poles, but thanks to seeing Lauren doing something similar, I used a cut pool noodle to pad it:

I have also planted some cool-weather annuals. I planted alyssum in the plumeria pot (above). They smell like honey! Mmm…

I planted some in another tree pot too:

I also got pansies. They’re so cheerful in the winter, and this variety has fragrance! Pansies smell like candy.

Honey and candy smells in my back yard. It will be great to walk out there this winter.

I got home early enough to go out into my garden a little yesterday afternoon. I watered a couple of plants, but mostly I just looked at things.

I have more figs ripening! Yay! One of them is right next to an Arizona cypress. The dark against silver is pretty!

Now I just need to remember that fig is there, so I can take it when it gets softer…

There’s a little garden area at my school. Each grade level has a raised bed, and they plant various things in it, mostly edible. Summer was hard on everything, and the beds are empty, except for a couple of things.

One of those things is a grape vine. It survived the dry, dry summer. It even produced some grapes!

The middle school Science teacher is the one who tends everything, along with volunteer students. Yesterday during recess they were working on things, and the teacher pulled some of the grapes off of the plant and gave me some.

They were very tiny, but they tasted just like grapes from the grocery store! Amazing!

Yesterday was church and work. And some rest. (I wasn’t very efficient with my work). I have no pictures from the day, but here’s something from Saturday morning breakfast:

It’s a pineapple seed! Have I ever seen a pineapple seed? I mean, I’m sure pineapples make seeds, but I think I never paid attention to them. How fun!

I did not take it home with me. I have a little bit of an overcrowding problem with plants right now.

The orchids in my bathroom continue to LOVE it there. I can’t believe how much they boom! My pink doritaenopsis has been blooming almost constantly since I got it a year and a half ago.

This is what it does:

The flowers are almost done and just all falling off when up from the bottom comes a new bloom stem:

In a few weeks, I’ll have a whole new stem full of flowers!