Waiting
The freeze is coming.
It was warm this past week.
But there are 20's coming,
all week, starting on Tuesday.
The certainty is almost appreciated.
It will be, after all, November.
There is so much to do.
I seem to have acquired a lot of bulbs this year.
There are tulips and crocuses and lilium and fritillaria and corydalis. I must be forgetting something. Oh yes. Some trout lilies, aka dog tooth violets.
Now they have to be planted.There are so many things to plant.
Yesterday was one of those days to dream about, with blue skies, no wind, with temperatures approaching 60. Of course the day is short, with sunrise not occurring until about 7:35. I am ready to get that hour back in the morning. I guess that is next weekend.
One package is still "out for delivery". It will have in it some species tulips.
They were so wonderful this past spring. "Species" means they are found in nature. It is the opposite of "hybrid". In tulip talk if it is a "species" that should mean that it is almost a perennial, coming back for years. 
A year ago I planted almost a 1000 winter aconite. They were manageable in part because they were a little bulb that had no right side up. While I did not get that many crocuses, I did get upward from 100. They do have a right side up.
My secret to planting more than 100 of anything?
Plant two in each hole. It cuts the number of holes in half.
This week I had the handy person come and get the indoor environment updated. The light stand in the basement had some bad ballasts. LED lights are now available in the familiar 3 foot lengths. And there are more hooks in the ceiling. All the hoyas can now be hung.
The new lights are so bright. We will see how certain plants do in that artificial environment.
Here is that one basement room with a new 8 foot long ceiling LED lights. One plant family that will be down there will be the clivia.
Now the last of the migration can occur, particularly with the urgency provided by the coming freeze.
We are getting down to maybe 15 plants at this point.
The bougainvillea and the cactus came inside yesterday, with help.
How about some pictures?
The little airplant above the sink had 3-4 different blooms.
Those little purple things are the flowers.
Several weeks ago I told you that eggplant plants would not transplant.
Well now I am not so sure.
I think it had only been "mostly dead".
Here it is. It has recovered enough to maybe get a trip inside.
I hope there is time today to pot up a few little ones for the winter. I will also take cuttings.
I planted some zinnia seed about the middle of August.
They started to bloom this week. They are so fresh.
The last of the anemones still deliver that nice bit of white color.
This is a little hosta in the mouse family. Blue Mouse Ears showed up maybe 20 years ago and now there are many cousins. This one says attractive until the end.
That is going to be it for this week.
Julia is visiting Katie and family in Maine for the week, so she has the week off.
Be safe.
Stay warm.
The inside season is coming.
Philip
2 comments:
Save the eggplant!
I like the mouse family of hosta ("Mouse Ears"!). Plant names are often very amusing. Stay warm, and don't work too hard getting stuff settled for the winter.
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