Gardening is fun! Fun for everyone!
Yesterday, I went to Home Depot (sans enfants!) with the hopes of finding a stupid air filter that would fit my stupid a/c filter putting place. Why in God's name can't they just make one size fits all? I have not one, but two air filter putting places and they are the oddest sizes. I usually end up buying the ones you cut yourself, but I was hoping to get lucky.
I did get lucky in the plant department, though! I was hoping to find a decent looking hibiscus, but all they had was some sorry ass looking half dead one. But dude, I scored a 24 pack of verbena for $6.98! I also got a Maui Red Starflower (Ixora coccinea) for the same price. I also bought some batteries and if you really want to know, I think they were around $5.
My first grader brought home a Lima bean plant that he grew at school. He is so damn proud of that plant and rightly so. Everyday when I pick him up from school, he asks if it grew. And grow it does. Today, I told him to measure it and then he can measure it tomorrow to see if it grew overnight. That will give him something to do and then he can stop asking me. Not that I mind, but he will ask me a billion times and well, that gets pretty old after the 3rd time. There's one problem to this lima bean growing. Nobody likes them. Ew. Ew. Ew.
Someone please tell me how shoes multiply under my desk? I'm just killing time right now while I wait for some pictures to upload. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
So, I decided to put some of my indoor plants outside for a vacation. When I picked up my Ponytail palm to take it outside, there were a bunch of ants underneath the pot. Haysoos Creesto! I have had fire ants living in my house since December!
My front flower beds are doing well. Nothing has croaked yet. One of my varigated lantana and bougainvillea plants did not survive the great freeze of 2003. I already killed a bougainvillea that I just bought that has orange bracts. When I was taking it out of the plastic pot, I accidently pulled it off of the roots. Ooops! My bad. I'm trying to root a part that's still green. I'm also trying to root part of a hibiscus plant that I snipped from my neighbor's plant when she wasn't looking.
Uh...I think my bargain orchid is toast. I'm not sure. Maybe it will survive.
Check out my recycled ficus tree! It's now a Japanese honeysuckle tree!
posted at 06:42 PM
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