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daidoji_giseiLast night I found myself thinking how nice it would be to come home from a stressful day of work to someone who would smile at me when I walked into the room and enfold me in a hug when he heard I had had a bad day. This was not a good a good line of thought because it is never going to happen and it just makes it worse to think about it.
I bought myself another amaryllis bulb today as part of my growing campaign to have flowers in my apartment all winter. I got my first amaryllis a week before Thanksgiving and some paperwhites last week, so with the new one it looks like late-December/early-January will be nicely floral. I also have the two amaryllis bulbs from last year that I hope to bring out of dormancy later this winter. I have gotten amaryllis bulbs to rebloom in the past, but I haven't tried it for a decade or so--I hope I haven't lost my touch.
Right now I have the lemon and limes trees, which are going to bloom any day now. I also have the poinsettia I got on Thanksgiving Day. I normally try to hold off displaying Christmas things until at least Gaudete Sunday, but Thanksgiving was such a warm day and poinsettias really hate the cold and I didn't see the point of making a poor dumb Euphorbia suffer for my scruples. So I bought one and brought it home. It is red, of course, because in most things I am a raving traditionalist and poinsettias are one of those things. (Even if I have lusted for those highly-artificial blue ones.)
I'm very excited by my fuschia in the bedroom, which has quite a few blossoms on it. I got it on a clearance rack several summers ago and never quite gave it the care it needed to thrive, but last year by happenstance I discovered it really liked the west window of my bedroom. Which was kind of inconvenient, because the table there wasn't very large and was already trying to accommodate a lamb, clock radio, an incense burner, and an african violet. However, this fall I acquired the hardware I needed to hang it from the hook in the ceiling there (left by a previous tenant) and now I have all the best of all worlds. Not only will it grow and prosper, I will be able to lay in bed and look up at live flowers. Doesn't that sound nice?
I'm thinking of buying some more flowering plants for right now, but I should really hold off until I get all my summer geraniums replanted. They do well in cool temperatures and lots of winter sunlight, so I should get them to bloom quickly once I get them repotted and into the sun porch. But then, there's a lot of things I need to get into (and out of) the sun porch. We'll see.
I bought myself another amaryllis bulb today as part of my growing campaign to have flowers in my apartment all winter. I got my first amaryllis a week before Thanksgiving and some paperwhites last week, so with the new one it looks like late-December/early-January will be nicely floral. I also have the two amaryllis bulbs from last year that I hope to bring out of dormancy later this winter. I have gotten amaryllis bulbs to rebloom in the past, but I haven't tried it for a decade or so--I hope I haven't lost my touch.
Right now I have the lemon and limes trees, which are going to bloom any day now. I also have the poinsettia I got on Thanksgiving Day. I normally try to hold off displaying Christmas things until at least Gaudete Sunday, but Thanksgiving was such a warm day and poinsettias really hate the cold and I didn't see the point of making a poor dumb Euphorbia suffer for my scruples. So I bought one and brought it home. It is red, of course, because in most things I am a raving traditionalist and poinsettias are one of those things. (Even if I have lusted for those highly-artificial blue ones.)
I'm very excited by my fuschia in the bedroom, which has quite a few blossoms on it. I got it on a clearance rack several summers ago and never quite gave it the care it needed to thrive, but last year by happenstance I discovered it really liked the west window of my bedroom. Which was kind of inconvenient, because the table there wasn't very large and was already trying to accommodate a lamb, clock radio, an incense burner, and an african violet. However, this fall I acquired the hardware I needed to hang it from the hook in the ceiling there (left by a previous tenant) and now I have all the best of all worlds. Not only will it grow and prosper, I will be able to lay in bed and look up at live flowers. Doesn't that sound nice?
I'm thinking of buying some more flowering plants for right now, but I should really hold off until I get all my summer geraniums replanted. They do well in cool temperatures and lots of winter sunlight, so I should get them to bloom quickly once I get them repotted and into the sun porch. But then, there's a lot of things I need to get into (and out of) the sun porch. We'll see.
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Date: 2011-12-04 03:34 pm (UTC)