Oh my, what's this? A pretty flower? A pretty flower that bloomed from a patch of grass?! Well that's impossible, silly silly girl!
I promised I'd post a picture and I'm sure you all feel like cheering right now. Please do, I'll take a little pause.
Thanks to Basinah who identified the type of plant as hemerocalis or daylily, this plant is now called our Denialily plants.
They are actually quite interesting. They open up in the morning and close up at night so every time I step outside the house, I check on them and they're always different.
I win.
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Gardening Pride
Someone clicked "More please!" to my last gardening post and, of course, I took that as a : Please, oh please, may we please read more about your wonderful gardening skills, oh Garden Master! Teach us!
Yes. Yes you may, Grass Hopper.
Everything seems to be growing and it looks like I managed to, somehow, coordinate everything so that there's almost always something in bloom. When the tulips were blown away, a couple days later the lilies came (left). The lilies will probably fade by next week and by then, there should be something blooming from that thing I planted late. There's a wee bud. I checked, it's true.
As you can also tell by the photo above the Denial Grass is doing quite well. Js has started to try and rip it out of the ground to prove to me that it's grass. I ignore him and his plan to sabotage my beautiful garden. He's just jealous because he doesn't have pretty grass like mine.
Note to Grass Hopper : Do not, I repeat, do not throw out any bit of cardboard that comes with your carefully selected seedlings. You will forget what they are until they bloom. Doing so may, however, increase the high thrills of gardening if you're looking for a little rush.
While we're on this topic, I'd like to report that something is doing quite well in the pot with the Mighty Stickers of Doom.
Long story short - Goo gone does nothing. There are stickers on each side of this flower pot I bought. It's spent 2 summers outside and the stickers are still there. You can see them in the picture, mocking me.
Yes. Yes you may, Grass Hopper.
Everything seems to be growing and it looks like I managed to, somehow, coordinate everything so that there's almost always something in bloom. When the tulips were blown away, a couple days later the lilies came (left). The lilies will probably fade by next week and by then, there should be something blooming from that thing I planted late. There's a wee bud. I checked, it's true.
As you can also tell by the photo above the Denial Grass is doing quite well. Js has started to try and rip it out of the ground to prove to me that it's grass. I ignore him and his plan to sabotage my beautiful garden. He's just jealous because he doesn't have pretty grass like mine.
Note to Grass Hopper : Do not, I repeat, do not throw out any bit of cardboard that comes with your carefully selected seedlings. You will forget what they are until they bloom. Doing so may, however, increase the high thrills of gardening if you're looking for a little rush.
While we're on this topic, I'd like to report that something is doing quite well in the pot with the Mighty Stickers of Doom.
Long story short - Goo gone does nothing. There are stickers on each side of this flower pot I bought. It's spent 2 summers outside and the stickers are still there. You can see them in the picture, mocking me.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Roses vs Peonies... vs Lilies... vs Anemones...
I have commitment issues. *shock* (...and use sarcasm as a defense mechanism -but that's a whole other post!)
A couple years ago, when I was young and stupid (now I'm just stupid!) I could not commit to a pair of pants in the morning. I blamed it on youth, being a huge flake and my life being a whirlwind of craziness. How could I commit to something (or someone!) when I didn't even have my head on straight yet?! Perfect sense, yes?
Well... now that I'm old, I'm running out of excuses. The older you get, the more you have to commit to things and the less excuses you have not to. (Plus, you get all wise and shit and your sentences don't need to make sense anymore!)
So here I sit, trying to make decisions for the wedding and I'm having a grand ole time dealing with it.
I don't have a problem committing to spending the rest of my life with Js, an Air Force lifer but picking flowers for the bridal bouquet is a completely different story. Whoa... I'm a nut job.
We are currently looking for our Photographer. I know it's a bit late in the process and we probably should have booked it way before now. But now we have the money to put down a deposit so now it has to be.
Wedding planning progress : Most of the big things done and booked - now for the nitty-gritty shite.
A couple years ago, when I was young and stupid (now I'm just stupid!) I could not commit to a pair of pants in the morning. I blamed it on youth, being a huge flake and my life being a whirlwind of craziness. How could I commit to something (or someone!) when I didn't even have my head on straight yet?! Perfect sense, yes?
Well... now that I'm old, I'm running out of excuses. The older you get, the more you have to commit to things and the less excuses you have not to. (Plus, you get all wise and shit and your sentences don't need to make sense anymore!)
So here I sit, trying to make decisions for the wedding and I'm having a grand ole time dealing with it.
I don't have a problem committing to spending the rest of my life with Js, an Air Force lifer but picking flowers for the bridal bouquet is a completely different story. Whoa... I'm a nut job.
We are currently looking for our Photographer. I know it's a bit late in the process and we probably should have booked it way before now. But now we have the money to put down a deposit so now it has to be.
Wedding planning progress : Most of the big things done and booked - now for the nitty-gritty shite.
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