I bought a new orchid the other day

I used to be really good with orchids but something happened but what I don’t know. All of a sudden my babies started to die. After doing some research it looks as if they died because of water still left in the pot and that might be the cause. I think I started water them differently. In the beginning I was always watering them over the sink where I would make sure there were no water left in the pot but then I got lazy and just water them a little standing on the windowsill. So, due to this I bought a new orchid and I’ll do better with the watering and see if it will do the trick.

Tucking the little ones in for winter

By the Tea Corner
1 pampas grass (not really hardy here so keep your fingers crossed)
1 tall-verbena (not really hardy here so keep your fingers crossed)
3 feather grass
1 Molinia arundinacea
2 Physostegia virginia
1 Creeping baby’s breath
1 Verbena rigida (not really hardy here so keep your fingers crossed)
1 Perovskia

Let's hope they all survive the winter...

Just because

Pretty pink mallow, on my seed list for January. They did well and next season I’ll put them a little here and there in the flowerbeds, where ever there’s room. Sow direct, my kind of flowers.

Brought in some of the dahlias today

My dahlias doesn’t want to produce any seeds, at least not the once on the terrace I still have hope for the one by the greenhouse. Tucking them in for the winter now. A little baby feel off, he'll be big in no time.

I thought that the poppies would be gone by now

But no, they keep blooming and there are plenty of buds. Pretty sure that they are regular corn poppies and they bloom from July – august but not in my garden apparently, which I’m fine with. I’m my garden things usually bloom late.

( I love that you can see the little red hairs on this one)

Today

Planted five ”Beauty of Livermere” that I sowed this spring(two or perhaps even three are in questionable condition) by the Inka dude the other day, just saying so I’ll remember it. Have be digging a little and pulling weeds, it’s nowhere near perfect. I would need some kind of stop, an edge of some sort of prevent the weeds from getting “back in”.

And, I want to replace the stone “wall” we have here with something stronger and better, something a bit more reliable. I want the stone wall to be instead of The Slope and perhaps a low fence on top of it… The Slope is a problem… tricky tricky…

Didn’t plan for it but…

My dog ran into my azalea so instead of just throwing the branch I saved it for cuttings. No idea if it will work. I kept them all inside for a few days because I forgot about them (and it was raining) but today I finally got them into a pot, all by the edge of the pot (people say that’s good for cuttings) and all of them I used some rotting hormone on. Have to remember to buy some more of that in the spring…. I should make a spring list.