Green Thumb Sunday - January 31, 2010

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A Progress Report
on "Shady's Indoors!"

Last Sunday I showed a few blossoms as well as pictures of "the nursery." Today you're getting an update on the hyacinth bulbs. :-)

#1 - Jan. 29, 2010

#1 - January 31, 2010

#2 - Jan. 29

#2 - January 31

#3 - Jan 29

#3 - January 31

#1 - a closer look - Jan. 29

#1 - closeup - January 31

Today's trio - January 31, 2010

Prrrresenting - "The Supremes!" (Last night, we attended a local production - over 60 artists singing the greatest Motown music hits of such artists as The Temptations, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Gladys Knight and the Pips, etc., etc., etc. It was a 3-hour production of Energy!)
Click here to see a little Youtube video of some of the rehearsals. :-)

Perhaps I'll have another post on my "Odds and Ends" blog later.

There is Something Blooming today!

There is something blooming in my house.
It sneaked in through the night.
It's definitely quieter than a mouse,
But doesn't cause a fright!

Just a Surprised Shock! ;-)
I didn't realize the buds were ready.

Enter, my non-hardy Hibiscus.

(If you click on the photo, you can see pretty good detail,
considering I was holding the camera in my hand and trying not to breathe!)

Green Thumb Sunday

I absolutely, positively was going to have something blooming today! So. Is it cheating to purchase a plant on a "balmy" Winter's Saturday afternoon and suddenly notice, not until I'd brought it home of course, that it was blooming? ha.

My new African Violet.
My mother is very good at raising these (and propagating them).
I could have waited to get one of hers. But
if I give her a leaf from my plant,
perhaps she'll start a new plant for me
from one of hers.

Maybe I'd better wait to see how my violet fares
in its new location. :-)


Now, you've seen my hibiscus before...
but just look at the number of buds it has.
I'll be enjoying its blossoms for awhile, yet.

It was several degrees below zero F. this morning. And it's breezy outdoors. So, even though it's sunny, it's bitterly cold! Brrrr. Think I'll go water my plants.

No shade today.


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Forget that Winter scene outdoors! It's plenty "balmy" indoors! :-)

Catch a whiff?

In the meantime, I'm off to take a sunny stroll with my walking buddy! :-)

Nice Indoors Surprises

My two Thanksgiving Cacti (thanking Mr. Brownthumb for the i.d.) are both blooming! Already! They are seemingly very healthy. They endured some accidental pruning this summer. I surmise by a striped gopher or a squirrel looking for a hiding place... for a piece of chocolate saved to enjoy later with a good book and a cup of chai, perhaps? Anyway, I wonder if that pruning might have turned into kindly deed.
The plant with the pink blossoms is Loaded with buds. The other has only one flower and a couple of buds. (Both plants, however, bloomed twice last winter!)

I'm wintering my hibiscus in the guest bedroom. It sits in front of a window with a southern exposure. The other window faces westerly. Lots of nice light. It looks as though I could clean the pot a bit.Yes, there's a trellis on the wall. There's another one on the other side of the window, too. They're acting as headboards for twin beds. (The sheet of posterboard protects my grandchildren and other young guests from rubbing against the bumpy walls at night.)

And, I know. The above close-up photo is blurry. I'm sorry. I could take another, but I think we'll just have to deal with it.

I'm loving the sunshine. Winter is not my favorite season, overall. I LOVE watching gently falling snow. And standing in it. I do have fun making snowmen, etc., but most of the time I desire the return of the progression of the other three seasons. So, that being said, having additional sunshine due to most of our trees having shed their leaves is a very GOOD thing!