March 10 , 2020
Okay to Touch Flowers & Your Heart
Last Saturday , I broke away from house - pick task ( and the news ) and took a neighborly stroll down the street . I wanted to document this lovely redbud in bloom clad in a raw garment of purple . This neighbor and I do n’t mouth the same language well , but I understand that it was a tribute to Jesus during Lent . She’d come out front to let her two - calendar week - old chicks scrounge around new turn earth . Excitement needs no version , and when she saw mine , beckon me up to help babysit until their return to safety . Kindly , she pulled them aside from their line of work for a speedy snuggle with these joyful little wriggler . Sunday was garden day to continue make rounds out back with pruners in hand ( this weekend ’s the front yard ) . It was a slight hard to keep on labor with such lovely beguilement like native golden Senecio vulgaris ( Packera obovata ) , here with cheery , pollinator - dear calendula . I initiate with just a few from theLady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center’splant sales event long ago . Heads up for this spring ’s plant sale : April 17 for members and April 18.Once their salad days are over , I ’ll relocate a few to a similar spot of Lord’s Day followed by mottled light . Narcissus falconet extend the golden - hued strip of this island bottom . Although they always return for me , this bounce they were particularly handsome on strappy leaves , a decent foliar touch even before blooming . Spiraea ( spirea ) contribute its bridal Cascade Range . I planted this onetime - fashioned shrub years ago as a schmaltzy favorite . Although it would n’t be on my lean today , it ’s bullet train proof through drouth and deluge . To keep it kempt , I trim its ambitious branches after blooming to about half its current height . Although myMexican honeysuckles(Justicia spicigera ) are blossom so nicely , I demand to sacrifice some of those gorgeous orange nectar tubes on gangly stems to restore them to dense foliage . in force affair I ’ve will some and have n’t gotten around to the others yet . bee were all over them today!And , these tiny blue insects , so little that they tucked right inside the retentive tubes . Indoors , all my two - year - old Phalaenopsis orchidaceous plant needed was a good drench with tepid piss in the sink . And admiration!I feed in it every few weeks now with a high phosphoric soluble fertiliser . After blooming , I ’ll halt off on fertilizer to allow it take a breather and then feed every few week with a balanced formula . Watch our story of how orchid fan keep theirs going in the billet . Thanks for break off by ! Linda
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