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Greenhouse – Boxwood Cuttings – Cover Flowers

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One of the reasons I enjoy my greenhouse is that we can buy our plants for the yard and garden and not have to plant them right away.
I’m thankful we have the new plants in the greenhouse because we’re in the midst of one of our little winters. I’m not sure which little winter, we have so many between Spring and Summer.
We’ve been covering my Asiatic lilies and peonies the past few nights to protect them from frost.
My peonies are full of bloom buds and my lilies are lush and green. I would hate for them to get frost bite.
I’m happy that it’s possible that one or more of my boxwood cuttings from my bouquet might root actual grow into a bush. I transplanted all of them in the flower bed and so far, only a couple has died. The others look like their trying to grow.

Wishing you all a Happy Tuesday!

 

 

My New Green Greenhouse

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I had to take down and store my small greenhouse. We had it anchored inside with some heavy concrete blocks. Unfortunately, the greenhouse had no way to anchor it on the outside. The wind proved to be mightier than the anchor blocks and toppled it over.
I’m fortunate that the only plants in it was the lettuce and chard. They were bounced around but didn’t get broken or smashed. They’re living happily in our garden now.
I had been planning to replace my small greenhouse with a larger greenhouse with more shelves. I had a new one ordered and was waiting for it to arrive, so it was kind of a help the wind toppling my small one.
We had fun putting the new one together. There’s nothing much more amusing than two old folks figuring out directions on how to assemble a project. lol
The new greenhouse has anchors on each outer corner to tie it down. We’re using concrete blocks on the lowest shelves and around the bottom edge of the cover as extra anchor weight.
I guess I should add in here that meaning of the red ribbons on the tie-downs is that a ‘clumsy old lady owns the greenhouse’ and needs the ribbons to highlight the tie-downs, (so I won’t trip over them whilst going to open/close the windows. lol)
The new greenhouse has 3 windows with hook & loop tape flap closures. You can see them in the different pictures. The windows are blessing to circulate fresh air when needed.
The 3 windows were a defining factor in my choosing this green mesh greenhouse.  Also, the green mesh cover will hopefully help to shade me a bit more than the clear cover would. It might protect the plants by shading them a bit more from the hot rays of the sun.
When I’m going to be in the greenhouse any length of time, I have to have the main door flap open. It presents a problem because of wasps and bugs. I’ve pretty much solved that problem by hanging a curtain I fashioned out of netting. The netting also helps keep more air circulating too.
I’ve got a few trays of seeds planted and hopefully they’ll begin to grow soon.

Wishing you all good things this Spring.

Boxwood cuttings – Rose cuttings update

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While taking the last of my bouquet apart, I discovered a few of the cuttings have new growth. I might be wrong, but I think they’re of the Variegated Boxwood Shrub variety.
I’ve put the cuttings in water. I’ll transplant them into dirt sometime soon. Hopefully, one of them might take root.
Rose cuttings update:
Only one of the rose cuttings has any green left in it. I figure it’s on it way to dying too. But at least I tried.

Here’s wishing good things to grow in your life.
🌹🌞🌿🍀

 

 

2018 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Growth – Herbs

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2018 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge
~Growth~
“Evoke the excitement of entering a new year
with a photo that shows growth.”
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Right now it’s so cold in our region that the only thing that’s showing any growth around my home is one of my basil plants. I transplanted them from my herb bed last fall to a container to set on the window sill. I’m surprised one of them is doing so well. I haven’t had the heart to use it yet, but it’s just now finally tall enough to use. I’m going to start using a few of it’s leaves for seasoning food sometime soon.

Below is a photo I used in the WordPress Weekly Challenge last August for Textures.
The healthy growth of my herb bed evokes the excitement of the promise of a new gardening season in this new year .

 Wishing you all fun with another year
of the WordPress Weekly photo challenge!

 

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2017 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Textures – Herbs

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2017 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge
~Textures~

“ We consume photos through our eyes,
but that doesn’t mean they can’t have a tactile element, too. ”There’s several textures of different varieties of herbs.
velvet soft common sage, spikey onion chives,
wispy fennel, spoon leaves of basil, candy-leaf stevia
needle-like leaves of lavender & rosemary.

and of course the herb bed itself has textures,
Soft marigold petals & fragrant fronds,
hard resin birdbath filled with cool water,
smooth cool concrete stepping stones,
coarse limestone rocks, gritty potting soil,
rough landscaping logs,
the bed surrounded by a carpet of grass

 Wishing you all fun with the WP photo challenge!

 

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